Web and Mobile Development articles
We mostly connect our Android device to our computers with a USB cable for debugging purposes. It is possible to use adb over a wifi connection than a USB to save some wire-related hassles in our lives. The process is super simple, let’s go through it quickly.
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In Android, if you’ve ever wanted to sort of disable the scrollbars of a scrolling ViewGroup like a ListView, GridView, ScrollView, etc. then there are a few tricks to do that. I’ve tried to compile a set of such tricks to disable (or just hide) scrollbars for such scrolling View Groups.
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In my Android app, I was working in an Activity where I had a ScrollView containing a LinearLayout (could be a RelativeLayout too though) that had a few Views at the top followed by a ListView in the end that was long enough to move out of the bottom edge and add scrollbars to itself. Since I’d set a height to the ListView the ScrollView gained it’s vertical scrollbars.
When a ListView is put inside a ScrollView with (or without) other views it takes as much space is available in the ScrollView. So let’s say there are three elements like this:
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Update: Parse is shutting down. So you should start migrating.
If you want to send messages upstream and downstream from your Parse backend to your app and vice-versa then thankfully Parse does allow you to do that. Parse allows you to send unlimited push notifications to 1 million unique recipients (devices). Then they charge $0.05 per 1000 recipients extra. That’s awesome!
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About a year and a half back I evaluated a couple of search engine rank trackers and compiled a list of decent softwares (preferably web based) available. Today I feel like posting the list on this blog for reference purposes.
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PubNub is a lovely SaaS platform that helps us build realtime applications very fast without coding our own backend infrastructure. It has 60+ SDKs and can be used with JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, iOS, Android, Python, etc. In this specific article, we’ll deal with the Android SDK only. So in my Android application I had to code a small chat piece where multiple people could chat in groups (similar to WhatsApp groups). The idea of this article is to quickly show you how to install the PubNub Android SDK in your app and get started.
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