Understanding Android Activity Lifecycle Android apps go through a number of stages from the time they’re first loaded to when they get closed down. These stages are handled as “events”. For a typical activity, the key events include onCreate, onStart, onResume, onPause, onStop, onDestroy As a user navigates through, out of, and back to the […]
Read MoreGet ready for an explosion of apps that use video in innovative, new ways Cloudflare Stream gives content owners a new way to integrate video into any app or website, without dealing with technical complications or giving up control. It handles the infrastructure setup to give developers an independent platform. It allows developers to have […]
Read MoreHow to Get Good at Something Getting good at something takes time and effort. You need discipline. You need to be motivated. Know clearly why you want to be good at that something. Practice.Practice.Practice. Measure progress Learn from the winners. Take risks See https://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2014/10/28/how-to-get-good-at-something/
Read MoreWant to send SMS from your computer? Pushbullet is a Chrome Extension that will . Send and receive SMS messages from your computer (requires Android) • Reply to messages from many popular apps including WhatsApp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger (requires Android) • Easily share links and files between your devices, or with friends See https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pushbullet/chlffgpmiacpedhhbkiomidkjlcfhogd
Read MoreAre Blockchain & Bitcoin one and the same? This is probably the most common fallacy about Blockchain. Bitcoin is the first & most well-known implementation of blockchain technology, Apart from Bitcoin, there are many other blockchain networks. Blockchain is just one of the technologies that underlie the bitcoin protocol upon which the Bitcoin cryptocurrency is […]
Read MoreWhat is Kotlin? Kotlin programming language was started as a Java-based language, and has seen a large growth in it’s user base. It is a great fit for developing Android applications, bringing all of the advantages of a modern language to the Android platform without introducing any new restrictions. Kotlin can be used for any […]
Read MoreShare Your Location With Contacts in WhatsApp Rather than try to explain to someone where you are, you can easily share your location with them using a smartphone. WhatsApp now lets you share your live location with someone else. See https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/share-location-contacts-whatsapp/
Read MoreTrigger to do our best work Most of us need an external stimulus to do our best work. A presentation. A deadline. A live performance. The threat of foreclosure, an upcoming review or some sort of crisis. Something. We can use these pressures to get out of our comfort zone and do something useful. See […]
Read MoreUse Your Computer Only To Create Something More and more, we’re finding it easy to spend time on our computer, doing things on it that feels like work, but isn’t really. We are deceiving ourselves that we are working when all we have done is spending time without creating anything. Solution? See https://seths.blog/2011/03/are-you-making-something/
Read MoreLost something? The mobile app ‘Tile’ can locate your lost items using an app on your phone. All you have to do is to place your Tile on those items important to you. Once you do that, your phone will use Bluetooth to locate any item up to 100ft. See https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/how-it-works
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