Create a Countdown Timer on Android

Learn how to create a Countdown Timer on Android with the CountDownTimer class. A simple and easy solution to manage a Countdown timer.

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Google Play Games services no longer supported on iOS, some features cut from Android

Google is often praised for its openness in cross-platform compatibility, most notably with iOS, Android’s largest and most direct competitor. Unfortunately, this open-mindedness doesn’t always benefit Google like in the case of Android’s Google Play Games service.

Given that iOS already has Game Center, the OS is not in need of another gaming service to clutter the default experience. As a result, Google has found very low usage of the service among iOS users. At the same time, it also found that Gifting, Requests, and Quests on the service were also quite low across both iOS and Android.

GPGS (Google Play Games Services) will not support iOS in the latest Native DSK (2.3). Lastly, as a courtesy to game developers, Google has given a grace period of 12 months for those still using any of the (bold-marked above) aforementioned features of GPGS.

Google says this is so that it can continue to focus its efforts to its other more popular features in gaming, including: Sign-in, Achievements, Leaderboards, and Multiplayer.

More info below on the Android Developers Blog

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Learn to create a Slot Machine Application for Android with Android Studio. It's a good tutorial to discover how to use Threads on Android.

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Learn to create a Rotary Dialer Application for Android - via +Medium

Classically, Android users use stock dial to make calls. There are also many alternatives available on Google Play Store for stock dial. But, some users like add a touch of retro to their smartphone and seek for an old school rotary dialer.
If old guys are nostalgic about old rotary dialers, young guys sometimes doesn’t know what it is. So what is a rotary dialer ?

A rotary dialer was used on old phones to dial digits and call numbers.

Create an Android dialer with that retro touch is an interesting subject and more a good way to learn how to create a specific view on Android.

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Discover how to to create a Coin Flip Application on Android. This tutorial is also a good way to discover Animation API on Android. Don't hesitate to give me your feedback and questions about the tutorial.

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Learn to create a Slot Machine Application for Android with Android Studio. It's a good tutorial to discover how to use Threads on Android.

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Discover how to implement Text To Speech (TTS) Features on Android. Define your text, the pitch rate, the speech rate and click on Speech to listen the text entered.

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Learn to create a Paint Application with Android Studio. Creating a Paint App is always a good way to learn how to use Canvas and Android 2D API.

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Discover how to parse an HTML page on Android with JSoup Library. JSoup Library is a Java Library for working with real world HTML. It provides to Java developers a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data.

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