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Introducing Quick Search Box for Android

  One of the new features we're really proud of in the Android 1.6 release is Quick Search Box for Android. This is our new system-wide search framework, which makes it possible for users to quickly and easily find what they're looking for, both on their devices and on the web. It suggests content on your device as you type, like apps, contacts, browser history, and music. It also offers results from the web search suggestions, local business listings, and other info from Google, such as stock quotes, weather, and flight status. All of this is available right from the home screen, by tapping on Quick Search Box (QSB). What we're most excited about with this new feature is the ability for you, the developers, to leverage the QSB framework to provide quicker and easier access to the content inside your apps. Your apps can provide search suggestions that will surface to users in QSB alongside other search results and suggestions. This makes it possible for users to access your...

Android Web Service Tutorial

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  Creating web service application in android is not a difficult task. We can easily create a restful web service application in android to authenticate or save information into the external database such as oracle, mysql, postgre sql, sql server using other application developed in java, .net, php etc languages. That is what we are going to do. Android Restful Web Service Tutorial Before developing web services application, you must have basic knowledge of SOAP and Restful web services. That is why, we are going to discuss basic points about web services such as what is web service and brief information about SOAP and Restful web services. What is Web Service? A web service is a standard for exchanging information between different types of applications irrespective of language and platform. For example, an android application can interact with java or .net application using web services. To learn complete course visit: android app development course Android Restful Web Service Ex...