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Tutorial to Develop Apps for Samsung Galaxy Tab

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 26 Mei 2013 0 komentar

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is one of the best tablet devices launched by the South Korean company and it runs on the Android 2.2 Froyo operating system of Google. It flaunts with a 7-inch screen resembling a resolution of 1024x600 pixels and as a matter of fact, at that point of time, was a rival of the Apple’s iPad. This Tab grants many amazing features such as Adobe Flash 10.1, Samsung’s Social Hub app and Media Hub content services. It also enables advertisers to portray cross-channel ad campaigns throughout the Mobile Web. Being a magnificent device, developers can write a good number of apps for it. In order to know the procedure to develop apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, go through the discussions below.

Things to be noted

The difficulty level for developing apps is average while it takes a few days of work.
When you work using the bitmap images, you should seek advice or consult the concerned ad vendor so that you get to know the exact dimensions of the image.
Do not use hard-coding for pixel values instead make use of Density Independent Pixel or DPI.
Still then, if you face any trouble, then you can ask help from the developers at Samsung’s own Galaxy Tab Developer Forum.

Requirements

Samsung Galaxy Tab
Android programming knowledge and skills
Emulator
Key thing to have - Patience!

Instructions

At the start, you need to run the AVD Manager on Eclipse IDE, then select the necessary packages and then go for the installation. Hereafter, ensure yourself to restart the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) or Eclipse.
Next, you have to choose Samsung Galaxy as your target device and by doing this; you will be able to create an emulator for your device.
Your Galaxy Tab accompanies built-in support for the customization of the User Interface elements so that it works well on various screen sizes, pixel densities, etc.
This Tab is built with a high-density screen and so no single design is likely to work well in all screen resolutions and density. And so, you need to customize the User Interfaces according to their respective screen size, resolution as well as density.
Keep in mind that you will have to make use of both landscape as well as portrait layouts and as a matter of fact, the Galaxy Tab has much real estate enabling you to create more elements on the screen.
Another thing to remember is to create your screen layout according to the device’s display so that it fits to the large size display.
There is nothing bad in using lower resolution but there may not be a necessity of sharp image quality always and so make use of high density display or hdpi resources which are made available in the application package.
Also keep in mind to run your test on mobile platforms using the minSdkVersion APIs and the targetSdkVersion APIs.
If at all, you have developed some apps that do not fit to the full screen of your device, you can solve this by downloading the “Spare Parts” app from the Android Market and install it on your Galaxy Tab. Then, launch the Spare Parts, navigate to ‘Compatibility Mode’ and here, simply reboot your device.
The very first try may not work in some cases, if so, your second try will be your success to let your apps to be displayed in full screen.

Once you are done with the above discussed instructions, know that you have learnt the procedure to to develop apps for the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

DISCLAIMER: Note that you are following these instructions at your own risk and make sure that we are not liable for any damage caused to your device due to the instructions provided in this guide.

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