May 12, 2018Exploring Jetpack: The power of chains in the WorkManager APIsIn this I/O ’18, Google released WorkManager APIs to schedule the work. In the last article, we discussed about how work manager APIs work under and how you can use these APIs to schedule the work to run in particular condition. …Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
May 12, 2018Member-onlyExploring Jetpack: Scheduling tasks with Work ManagerIn I/O ’18, Google released Android Jetpack. It’s a set of libraries, tools and architectural guidance to help make it quick and easy to build great Android apps. In this Android Jetpack, team at Google release one library specifically designed for scheduling and managing the background tasks. It’s called “WorkManager”. …Android8 min readAndroid8 min read
Apr 7, 2018Exploring ARCore: Digging fundamentals of ARAugmented reality is picking up the heat nowadays. All the major companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are pushing their operating systems towards augmented and virtual reality. In late August 2017, Google released ARCore SDK in the preview. (Here is the announcement blog post.) This allows the application…Augmented Reality6 min readAugmented Reality6 min read
Jul 8, 2017Member-onlyTurn your Raspberry Pi into homemade Google HomeGoogle Home is a beautiful device with built-in Google Assistant — A state of the art digital personal assistant by Google. — which you can place anywhere at your home and it will do some amazing things for you. …Raspberry Pi7 min readRaspberry Pi7 min read
Jul 3, 2017Create your own Git server using Raspberry Pi and GitLabIf you are a software developer or you are linked to software development you might know what is Git and GitHub. For those who don’t know what is GitHub, GitHub is a web service based on the software Git (which is a versioning software written by Linus Torvald, creator of…Raspberry Pi4 min readRaspberry Pi4 min read
Jul 3, 2017Monitor the core temperature of your Raspberry Pi.Raspberry Pi is a pretty powerful device. That is why people are using their raspberry pi for performing some intensive tasks that squeeze last drop of CPU power from the Raspberry Pi. You can also overclock the Raspberry Pi to make it more powerful. Raspberry Pi consumes very less power…Raspberry Pi3 min readRaspberry Pi3 min read
Apr 2, 2017How to handle background services in ANDROID O?Nothing makes an android developer more crazy than a new version of Android. Google has just revealed the DP1 of the next iteration of android: Android O. There are many new exciting features and under the hood performance improvements in the newest version of android. While others talk about what…Android6 min readAndroid6 min read
Mar 27, 2017Member-onlyHow to make the perfect Singleton?Design Patterns are popular among software developers. A design pattern is a well described solution to a common software problem. The Singleton is one of the Creational Design Patterns in Java. What is the purpose of Singleton? The purpose of the Singleton class is to control object creation, limiting the number of objects to only one…Android6 min readAndroid6 min read
Mar 12, 2017How you can decrease application size by 60% (In only 5 minutes)?Mobile devices always have limited resources. They have a limited amount of battery, limited storage, limited processing power, limited RAM, limited internet connectivity … and the list goes on. This doesn’t matter if you are targeting Android or iOS. This is the universal truth. In past couple of months, I…Android7 min readAndroid7 min read
Jan 27, 2017How to decrease your Gradle build time by 65%?Gradle is very powerful build system. It handles the very complex process of building .dx files from java source code, merging all the resources and assets into the application package (.apk) and signing the application. But gradle isn’t perfect. It is comparatively slower than other build systems out there. Why should you care about build time of your project? For…Android8 min readAndroid8 min read
