How to edit Google docs on your Android phone

Quickoffice is a powerful editing suite for Office documents on Android smartphones. It enables you to create and edit Word files and Excel-compatible spreadsheets on your phone with ease, using many of the common formatting features you would also expect to use on the desktop. In addition, you can access and edit your Google Docs files in a way that is completely seamless. Once you’ve entered your details you’ll find your documents ready and waiting, or you can make new ones as well.

Set up and use an Exchange account on an Android Phone

Although Android seems to be aimed more at the consumer market, it also comes packed with features that make it an ideal platform for business users.
The launch of Android brought full Exchange support to the OS, giving users the opportunity to get business-class push email on their handset. Setting up Exchange requires the full settings, which you may need to get from your system’s administrator. Once set up, though, you can configure the account to perform exactly as you need it.

Learn to effectively use Android search

Android devices have built-in search functionality, enabling you, the user, to discover and access content on the device as well as on the web.
Searches can be initialised with text or voice input criteria. Android’s search can help you find contacts, applications and application content, like music. You can even search within messages you’ve sent and received. Using Android’s built-in search can save time and help you find what you’re looking for.

11 way to save your android phone’s battery life

The battery is possibly the most critical component in an Android smartphone, but it’s the one area of technology that has been struggling to keep up recently.

With hungry screens, a camera and radios on the one hand, and a demand for ever-thinner devices on the other, the poor rechargeable battery is being squeezed on both sides. And Android phones are possibly the worst culprit in this regard. So, what can you do to squeeze the most from your little green robot-driven friend?

Tools To Hack Android Phones Are Getting Easier To Use

Security researchers have long maintained that malware is a problem on Android, the Google operating system that’s on 80% of the world’s smartphones. In extreme cases, hackers with malicious intent can do more than send premium text messages – they can turn a phone into a spying tool too. The scenario was recently demonstrated at hacker conference Black Hat, and in one real-life incident, an unnamed company executive unwittingly became a conduit to short-sellers who were listening in on a board meeting he attended — all possible thanks to the smartphone in his pocket.

Using lazy loading and avoiding replication

When you’re creating complex layouts, you may find yourself adding a lot of View-Groups and Views. But making your view hierarchy tree taller will also make it slower.
Creating optimized layouts is fundamental to building an application that runs fast and is responsive to the user.
In this hack, you’ll learn how to use the <include /> tag in your XML to avoid replication, and how to use the ViewStub class to lazy load views.

Centering views using weights Android v1.6+

At an Android talk I gave to a group of developers, when I was explaining how to create a view using an XML file, someone asked, “What should I write if I want a button to be centered and 50% of its parent width?” At first I didn’t understand what he was asking, but after he drew it on the board, I understood. His idea is shown in figures 1.1 and 1.2.

What is Android?

Android is an open source operating system based on Linux. In the beginning, it was just for cell phones, but now it works on tablets, TVs, computers, and even car stereos. It has been gaining a lot of momentum in the mobile scene and is now used in more than 50% of mobile devices.