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
How Bing Maps compares to the new Google Maps pricing
For many startups, Google’s cloud services have been an appealing way to get started because the generous free tiers have meant they could develop and build their tools essentially for free – as long as they didn’t need any support. View original...
Flutter Release Preview 2: Pixel-Perfect on iOS
Flutter is Google's new mobile app toolkit for crafting beautiful native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time. Today, during the keynote of Google Developer Days in Shanghai, we are announcing Flutter Release Preview 2: our last major milestone before Flutter...
Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host
A little Linux VM on Azure is like $13 a month. You can get little Linux machines all over for between $10-15 a month. On Linode they are about $10 a month so I figured it would be interesting to setup an ASP.NET Core website running on .NET Core. As you may know, ....
AnimatedContainer – Flutter Widget of the Week
You can code up animated changes yourself with explicit animations, or you can let Flutter animate them for you! With the AnimatedContainer widget, you just build it once with a particular attribute (like color), and then rebuild it with a different value. Flutter...
Implementing adaptive master-detail layouts in Flutter
Usually, when developing apps for mobile phones, having too much screen real estate is not the problem. In fact, quite the contrary. Much thought has to be put into how to structure the app so that it does not feel cluttered. On tablets, it is a whole different story....
Isolates: how to work with multithreading in Dart
Here we are again with another topic about Dart language, first of all I’d like to start this article with an off-topic. View original article
Why Flutter Uses Dart
Wm Leler explains why Flutter uses Dart: Here is a quick list of the Dart features that together make it indispensable for Flutter: Dart is AOT (Ahead Of Time) compiled to fast, predictable, native code, which allows almost all of Flutter to be written in Dart. This...
Putting build methods on a diet – tips and tricks for cleaner Flutter UI code
Flutter is great - it rocks. We have modern, fresh APIs for building complex UIs in a quite small amount of code. View original article
Airbnb, Udacity Abandon React Native
Within the space of two weeks, two major enterprise dev teams have announced they have abandoned React Native, the Facebook-originated technology unveiled five years ago as a new way to code native mobile apps using JavaScript. View original...
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.