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GCM or Google Cloud Messaging service  is offered by google for the android platform to send and receive data using google’s cloud infrastructure.Earlier it is better known an C2DM or Cloud to Device messaging  that is used to install the applications from playstore website directly to the android device remotely

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In this tutorial we will learn how to send sms using android code.Android’s basic feature SMS is controlled by SMSManager of Telephony class.Using this we can send,receive short messages in the PDU formats.We have already seen the tutorial to send sms using way2sms and java

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A broadcast receiver in android is a class that is used to receive the broadcast intents that are sent by the sendbroadcast() function. The core operating system events are broadcasted by default which enables us to listen for the system events

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In this tutorial we will setup an android application to learn the button click event handling.Coding in eclipse IDE is very user friendly for the newbies because of the automatic code completion.The eclipse editor will automatically implement the default code for the button events

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An Android Manifest is an XML file in the android application that holds the major role in defining the app itself.Every application has a manifest file that defines the package name that is unique to each an every application

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An android layout is the UI part of the application designing where the layout specify the design and structure of the screen.If you want your application to be visually appealing you need to know the proper placement of controls which you can specify via layouts

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