Managing Flutter Application State With InheritedWidgets
Everyone has heard that interactive applications can be decomposed into three parts: model, view, and controller. Anyone who has given Flutter a test drive will be familiar with its react-style support for building view/controllers with widgets and callbacks....
Hands-On with WSL: Installing Other Linux Distros
The third article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This article is part three of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). [mgamazon search="linux, windows,...
Can Google make cross-platform mobile app development suck less?
Today, Google is holding a developer conference in London for Flutter, a new development environment for developing mobile apps for both Android and iOS. Google calls Flutter a “portable UI toolkit,” and Paul Miller has called it “a Frankenstein’s monster of various...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft: How do their free machine-learning courses compare?
Machine-learning engineer was the fastest growing job category in the five years to 2017, according to LinkedIn. But tech's hottest role isn't a simple field to break into, requiring at least high school math and some programming knowledge, even to get started....
Apktool : A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps.
A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications. View original article
Writing Your First Electron App | Electron
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The Electron Open Framework and Why It’s Awesome for Apps Development
These days, there are many types of desktop devices, along with the many different operating systems that run on them. As such, getting programs that work on all of them can be a bit of a challenge. And that’s where Electron open framework comes in, as a way of...
Push data into a Power BI dataset from PHP and Laravel Application
I had a request to Integrate Microsoft Power BI Reporting tool to a custom Developed ERP Product which is based on PHP Laravel Frame Work and My SQL Database... After several hours of research and studies through the documentation, I end up with a successful effort....
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground.
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground.
Google open-sources AI that can distinguish between voices with 92 percent accuracy
Diarization — the process of partitioning out a speech sample into distinctive, homogeneous segments according to who said what — doesn’t come as easy to machines as it does to humans, and training machine learning algorithm to perform it is tougher than it sounds....
Flutter for Desktops, Windows or Mac?
Has anyone tried this? https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Rundown of PHP 7 Features) – Part 2
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original article
Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Development Environment) – Part 1
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original article
Project Islandwood: Objective-C for Windows?
Project Islandwood is now open source (MIT license), with all the code residing at github. This project includes and Objective-C compiler (sadly no Swift for us Objective-C haters), Objective-C runtime, iOS headers (this is the "bridge" bit that translates iOS calls...
Publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp
A small collection of useful bookmarks on how to publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp (or your own Windows Server 2012 R2). How To Publish an Internal Windows App on Azure Remote App (creating VHD in your PC and uploading it later to azure) Same as above, but...
Android Lollipop Showcase, by Mike Penz
A good example of CardViews, RecyclerViews and other Lollipop goodies by Mike Penz. The example is available at Goolge Play, source code at Github.
Free online ebook: iOS 8 App Development Essentials
The index: Start Here For New iOS Developers For iOS 7 Developers Source Code Download Joining the Apple iOS 8 Developer Program Registered Apple Developer Downloading Xcode 6 and the iOS 8 SDK iOS Developer Program When to Enroll in the iOS Developer Program?...
Cocoa Realm: Perth iOS Meetup 20th November
Android: detecting the current caller
@Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager) context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); PhoneCallStateListener customPhoneListener = new PhoneCallStateListener(context);...
Android Studio 1.0 RC2 error: “Gradle DSL method not found: ‘runProguard()'”
After installing the RC2 upgrade (in my case i've upgraded directly from 0.8.something to 1.0 rc2) the following error could appear when reimporting/resyncing projects created with previous versions: Gradle DSL method not found: 'runProguard()' The solution is quite...
Enumerating all providers, and respective installed apps, in Android
Android ships with a number of content providers that store common data such as contact information, calendar information, and media files. These classes offer simplified methods of adding or retrieving data from these content providers. If you need to list all the...
AngularJs + Bootstrap, single page app resources
Some bookmarks on how to develop single page applications using AngularJs and Bootstrap This is not a tutorial and/or step-by-step instructions on how to create this specific kind of App: these are just bookmarks i use and decided to share:...
Android Development, Best Practices
Compiled by Futurice, here is the summary of what they have compiled so far: Use Gradle and its recommended project structure Put passwords and sensitive data in gradle.properties Don't write your own HTTP client, use Volley or Retrofit libraries Use the Jackson...
Material Design for Pre-Lollipop Devices
The Android 5.0 SDK was released last Friday, featuring new UI widgets and material design, our visual language focused on good design. To enable you to bring your latest designs to older Android platforms we have expanded our support libraries, including a major...
Make your Android App Lollipop compatible
by Antonio Leiva: http://antonioleiva.com/material-design-everywhere/
Android debugging: adb via tcp
Very simple instructions here on how to debug android apps via tcp.