Can you imagine an Android application without any configurable options? Although this is possible. Actually, only the simplest application can get by without any configuration. Configuration is essential for the most of Android applications. But in what way are these applications being configured?

Android provides a standard way to configure an application using SharedPreferences and PreferenceScreen. Check out my hands-on guide to using these things and implementation of custom Preference screen.

This article covers the topic of developing an Android Chromecast-ready application: below you’ll find some notes, comments and advice for the developers, as well as code samples and source code of the app built by Lemberg’s team.