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KBeanie: November 2014
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People call me PSYCHO! And I dont know why? Follow me on twitter @kbibek. Sunday, November 30, 2014. I have been blogging for a few years now. Close to about 6 years. And I have blogged from a lot of places. My map shows that I have mostly blogged in India. Well, there's one post from Bhutan. And the western India still doesn't have one of my posts yet. My blogging frequency has decreased drastically. I do not specifically know the reason for that. May be because I am married now. Hahaha. 365 days, and i...
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Tech Droid: January 2012
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Download Videos from Youtube Trick. First things first. Is it legal to download videos from Youtube? As much I have understood from the Terms of Service. It's not a straight yes or no. Basically, Youtube doesn't have a publicly available API or service that would allow users to download the videos. Of course, you can download back the videos that you had originally uploaded. But who would do that anyway? Process the ...
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Tech Droid: November 2012
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Thursday, November 15, 2012. Easier Bug Reporting on 4.2. With the recent release of an updated Jelly Bean version, i.e, 4.2, there have been quite some new things to awe you. These are two things that could probably make a developers life easier. 8212; immediately takes a screen shot and dumps device state information to local file storage, then attaches them to a new outgoing email message. Power menu bug reports. Pasted by Kumar Bibek. Easy ...
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Tech Droid: Step Detector and Step Counter Sensors on Android
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Monday, March 31, 2014. Step Detector and Step Counter Sensors on Android. Android KitKat has added a few more hardware sensors to it's API list. Step Sensors are one of them, which looks very promising. Although, not a lot of phones yet have these Step Sensors, in the future, this would gradually become a standard I think. Currently, Nexus 5 has them. Let's see how we can interact with these sensors. Basically, there are 2 sensors. SensorManag...
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Tech Droid: September 2013
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Friday, September 27, 2013. Making your Android apps crash-proof. Image courtesy: Crittercism Website. O you have an android app on the Play Store, and get lots of negative comments/feedback? Most of the time, apps crash on the first interaction with the user. And that's the reason most users are frustrated of even downloading your app, and that's when most of the negative comments start pouring in. Within my app, along with Google Analytics SDK.
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Tech Droid: February 2012
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Friday, February 3, 2012. Sending SMS on Android and tracking it. Intent sentIntent = new Intent(INTENT ACTION SENT);. PendingIntent pendingSentIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this,. REQUEST CODE ACTION SENT, sentIntent,. PendingIntent.FLAG UPDATE CURRENT);. Intent deliveryIntent = new Intent(INTENT ACTION DELIVERY);. PendingIntent pendingDeliveryIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this,. REQUEST CODE ACTION DELIVERY, deliveryIntent,. If (a...
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KBeanie: Got something, for the New Year
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People call me PSYCHO! And I dont know why? Follow me on twitter @kbibek. Saturday, December 27, 2014. Got something, for the New Year. Finally, I got it. After months of planning and postponing, I got myself a bicycle. OK. Now stop sneering please. I know you must have heard this plan of mine last year. But, it's finally official. I am a proud owner of a two-wheeler, which doesn't run on petrol. As for accessories, I just got one unusual one, an Odometer. :D. Happy Cycling." The bicycle shop guy gre...
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Tech Droid: Easy Swipe to Refresh in Android
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Tips for Android Developers and my experiences with Android. Friday, June 20, 2014. Easy Swipe to Refresh in Android. Recently, Google released a new version of the Support Library, which has an interesting component. It's called SwipeRefreshLayout. With that, it's become a child's play to implement a quick Swipe-to-Refresh control for your apps. A few things first. Available only with android-support-v13. Which means that only apps target SDK level 13 and above can use this. Public void onRefresh() {.