Google recently launched Android Studio 2.0 with a 3 times fast emulator and a bunch of new useful features such as Instant run. We recently updated our Android Studio to this latest offering with a lot of excitement, but to our dismay it was crashing just a few seconds after startup. After a lot RCA… Read More »
Every year, Google keeps on improving their standard User Interface. More and more iOS app developers are looking for Android like UI components to add in their iOS applications. Here are a few we liked MaterialKit – MaterialKit is a highly customizable material design kit for iOS written in Swift. It provides material design buttons… Read More »
Getting blank screens when you run your Sencha Touch app? Don’t worry, it’s probably an issue with the latest version of Chrome (v43) instead of your code. Add the below mentioned Sencha overrides to add to your App.js (or application controller) to fix this issue. Ext.define(‘Override.util.PaintMonitor’, { override : ‘Ext.util.PaintMonitor’, constructor : function(config) { return… Read More »
There are a lot of apps out there with which you can control your PC in various different ways. This article tries to explain how is it possible to write such apps. We’ll try to build a very simple remote for VLC media player. Using this remote, the user will be able to play/pause a… Read More »
One of the biggest change in Microsoft’s vision, since Satya Nadella took the steering in his hands, is the focus to mobile and cloud technology. They have also made it clear that it’s not only WindowsPhone development they want to promote, but also cross-platform development using Microsoft tools and technologies. In this pursuit, they have… Read More »
Many a times you want to send data from your app to a backend. To send and store all that data, you need a database and a web service. Creating the web service and a database can cost you money and time. It’ll also most probably give you maintenance issues if you haven’t done it… Read More »
Whether you like it or not, this age is of Javascript. Many of the new age technologies and frameworks are using Javascript as their primary language. Initially, it was used only on the client side for web development, but now it has moved to server side (node.js anyone) and even to mobile app development (sencha… Read More »
ECMAScript 6 is the upcoming version of the ECMAScript standard. This standard is targeting ratification in June 2015. Implementation of these features in major JavaScript engines is underway now. One of the main new feature to be introduced in ES6 is classes. Although ES is object-oriented to its core, with powerful, flexible OOP capabilities, yet it… Read More »
Linkedin recently announced that they are moving to a more stricter public API under the developer program(effective May 12, 2015). This means, they are restricting use of several REST API endpoints. If you have integrated Linkedin in your app then it is recommended that you make changes in your application as per the new developer… Read More »
We stumbled upon a very weird bug while working on our new cross-platform network planning app. The app would either freeze or depict unpredictable every time the user did a double tap on any of the navigation bar buttons (in fact a double tap anywhere was an issue). It was found that whenever there was… Read More »