Android Populating Spinner data from MySQL Database

My previous tutorial Android Populating Spinner data from SQLite Database explained how to pupulate spinner data from SQLite database. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to do the same, except the spinner data is being loaded from MySQL database. I choose PHP as server side technology which acts as a connecting layer between android app and mysql database.

If you haven’t tried connecting android with PHP and MySQL, How to connect Android with PHP, MySQL will give you complete overview of communicating android app with MySQL.

Android working with Camera

Now a days lot of apps offer users to take pictures and record videos for various kind of purposes. This tutorial describes how to do the same in your applications.

Integrating camera can be done in two ways. One is to use android inbuilt camera app which is very easy process. This method won’t give you much control over camera as everything is taken care by inbuilt camera app. This way will be appropriate when your app need just a picture or video from camera.

Second way is to build a custom camera interface and adding the functionality. This needs higher effort as we have to do everything by our own. Building custom camera interface will be useful when you are building an app which mainly deals with images and videos like Instagram.

This tutorial covers the first scenario which is using android in build camera app in your application.