End to End Technology Solutions
In the ever-evolving landscape of web application development, choosing the right framework for your backend can make all the difference. One such framework that has been gaining significant attention and popularity is NestJS. With its unique blend of modern JavaScript and TypeScript features, as well as its modular architecture inspired by Angular, NestJS has quickly Continue Reading »
IMPORTANCE OF ACCESSIBILITY Being a creature of the 21st century and speaking of technology, we as humans have upgraded ourselves up to such an extent that our forebears could only ponder. On a factual note, technologies and software affect almost everything we do today and have an impact down the lane. All the advancements in Continue Reading »
Android Jetpack is the future of android development. In this blog, we will try to learn how we can make an app like the flutter default counter app. Before creating the project make sure that every dependency related to the Android jetpack is added to your build.gradle file. and your Android studio is updated to Continue Reading »
What is Data Binding? Databinding is a part of android-architecture components in an android jetpack. It is a support library and It is used to bind UI components in the layout to data resources in your app. In another word, we can say that Databinding allows you to write expressions that connect variables to the views in Continue Reading »
The Mobile Vision API provides a framework for recognizing objects in photos and videos. The framework includes detectors, which locate and describe visual objects in images or video frames, and an event-driven API that tracks the position of those objects in video. The objects that can be tracked by Mobile Vision API include facial features, text Continue Reading »
SurfaceView is a class provided by android.view package. It offers a dedicated drawing surface embedded inside of a view hierarchy. We can manage the format of this surface, however, the SurfaceView takes care of putting the surface at the right location on the screen. In this post, we will use the SurfaceView to preview the Continue Reading »
We have already discussed near pre-connection phase in our previous blog. Check this reference : https://innovationm.co/nearby-api-pre-connection-phase/ Now, in this blog, we will have a look at the post-connection phase. After the connection between advertiser and discoverer is made successfully, post-connection phase starts. In the post-connection phase, there is no distinction between advertiser and discoverer. Both can Continue Reading »
In this blog, we are going to discuss first Intent in short and then create chooser and email sending process using intent. Intent An intent is an object that provides runtime binding between seprate components (such as two activity etc). It can be used as signal to the android operating system that certain event Continue Reading »
In this blog, we are going to discuss about Fragment object states, Fragment transactions and Fragment BackStack behavior. Let’s first look at the different states of a fragment object. A fragment exists as : Java object When we write, Fragment f = new Fragment(); It exists as a simple java object but at this point Continue Reading »
This blog is about database transaction handling and its design pattern in android. It also gives a brief knowledge on how to handle Exception. Here we have a main method which is responsible to get database instance -> start Database Transaction -> Mark Transaction Successful -> Commit or Rollback Transaction -> Close database. This main Continue Reading »
Object Oriented Design Principles A good design is most important step of Software Development life cycle, and to have a good design we must follow some set of guidelines. According to Robert Martin in “Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices” there are 3 main reasons of bad design that should be avoided: Rigidity – System Continue Reading »
Scale Animation – Introduction Scale Animation is basically to increase or decrease the size of the View. There is a class ScaleAnimation. We need to create instance of ScaleAnimation (Can be done in XML also) to do the work. One of the main constructor of this class is: public ScaleAnimation( float fromX, float toX, float Continue Reading »
What is AsyncTask AsyncTask is an abstract Android class which helps the Android applications to perform tasks without blocking the UI Thread. AsyncTask is designed to be a helper class around Thread and Handler. Thread Pool Pattern AsyncTask uses a thread pool pattern for running the stuff from doInBackground() The Thread pool Pattern is where number of Continue Reading »
Introduction to Lazy Loading What is lazy loading? A little introduction of lazy loading is it is a design pattern to defer the initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed. In simple words create objects when it is needed. Problems to Tackle Before talking about lazy loading of images, I Continue Reading »
We specify a version of database in SQLiteOpenHelper constructor. Where is this version stored in database? This version is used while upgrading the database to higher versions. It is stored in Database file header as user_version number. See below: Code SQLite Maestro Tool Database header description
It cyber monday ugg boots critical to UGG Black Friday are uggs black friday 2015 aware uggs Black Friday that uggs cyber monday 2015 all legitimate uggs cyber monday deals sources black friday uggs will ugg black friday sale give uggs black friday 2015 you http://www.lillybunn.com/product1.html a uggs cyber monday 2015 cash. Cyber Monday They Continue Reading »
Great opportunity for Android developers. Nokia has launched a new Nokia X Software Platform, a customized platform built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The Nokia X family features smartphones powered by Android. The UI resembles Windows Phone — but other parts of the system feel distinctly Android or even Asha-ish. To publish Android Continue Reading »
Web services have gained lot of importance lately. From mobile apps perspective, native apps (Andorid, iOS, Windows Phone, etc.) or HTML5/JS Frameworks like Sencha Touch need to talk to the web services to get the data and push the data. How do we ensure that request sent to web services is from authenticated client? For Continue Reading »
Slider Drawer Pattern In this pattern, small handle or hook is provided on the screen to let the user open. User uses the handle to open a screen. This screen here is the Home Screen that carries navigations points to other places / functionalities in the app. Example – In the screens above, there is a Continue Reading »
Sliding Effect (Parent partially visible) In this example, operator has to be selected. User taps on the field and the screen moves / slides to the left to give space to show the list. Good points: – Parent screen is visible. Very good from UX perspective that user still knows the context where it Continue Reading »
Welcome to the world of Location. We have been talking about Location as an important attribute in mobile apps today. Business people and Developers are talking about it. Have you ever thought as to how a testing of apps based on location can be done? Let us talk about it. This articles flows like this: Continue Reading »
Testing – Facebook integration of the app – requires different combinations of situations and cases to be tested. Ex Login to Application using Facebook when Facebook app is installed on the device. In another case, Facebook app is not installed. Let us go through some of them …. iOS – Login Test Scenarios 1. User Continue Reading »
What is this offering from Android? One Tablet used by multiple users – How can we shield users from seeing each other stuff. Jelly Bean has an answer to it. Just like Windows OS, several user profiles (accounts) can be created on Android from Jelly Bean 4.2 (Tablets only) and onwards versions. This feature abstracts Continue Reading »
Prepare for a new treat… Android is the operating system that powers over 1 billion smartphones and tablets. Since these devices make our lives so sweet, each Android version is named after a desert. As everybody finds it difficult to stay away from chocolate they have decided to name the next version of Android after Continue Reading »
Out of Memory (OOM) Error Out of memory error is very common error when you are developing for a application that deals with multiple images sets or large bitmaps or some Animation stuff. In this case we have to be very careful and efficient while handling the images or object allocation and deallocation. OOM error Continue Reading »
Fragmentation in Android can be broadly attributed to following 4 factors: Android OS Versions Devices with different densities (ppi) Devices with different form factors / screen sizes Customization done by OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) Developing applications is a team work and there are key roles that help in containing fragmentation while developing apps. These Continue Reading »