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Simple Todo App using Google Polymer

Editorial Team — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:45:12 +0000

Polymer is a framework used to build Modern Mobile First Web Apps. If you are familiar with AngularJS, where we use Directives to create re-usable Components, similar way in Polymer we can extend the HTML and create custom Tag with a specific feature. HTML5 has already introduced many Semantic Tags to make the html code […]

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Android custom GridView scalable (auto adjusting col width)

Editorial Team — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:29:30 +0000

Its all ways annoying when using Android grid view because the cols are not free flowing even though we set the cols to expand and the solution is we need to set the col width dynamically by calculating with the screen width to the number of cols drawn. This is what we are going to […]

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Adobe illustrator creating custom arrows (curved, dashed…)

Editorial Team — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:23:12 +0000

Illustrating an image or a picture by drawing some lines, arrows and some texts would give more information to the user rather than just showing it. This tutorial will focus on drawing custom arrows. Creating custom arrows with “Photoshop” is little over head than in Illustrator. Using illustrator we can create a custom arrow in […]

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Grunt Vs Gulp – Javascript front end Build Tools

Editorial Team — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:23:50 +0000

As you know, both grunt and gulp are tools used in the front-end development to build the javascript projects. Each tool has its own syntax and guidelines but at the end their main goal is to create the build for the javascript project. After spending much time on grunt and gulp, I decided to go […]

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Android Layouts explained with examples

Editorial Team — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:23:07 +0000

Layouts are the design elements of any Application. Layouts in Android Provides the most basic parts of the UI. Android-SDK provides few different Layouts, basic among them are: 1. Linear Layout (Vertical & Horizontal) 2. Relative Layout 3. Table Layout Other Layouts include: 4. Grid Layout 5. Frame Layout Note: This tutorial focuses on the […]

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Android custom Grid View with zoom-in animation effect

Editorial Team — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:11:27 +0000

In a Grid View all the views are arranged in the grid fashion. We can customize a Grid View by creating a custom layout for the contents of the grid item. Here in this example we create a Grid View with the grids containing a simple layout have an Image View that holds a thumbnail. […]

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Android zxing Barcode scanner integration

Editorial Team — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:15:20 +0000

Applications where we need a barcode scanner integrated in our app, the best and first scanner library hits you is zxing. So lets get started how to build and integrate the library to our Project. Final results: Step 1: Download the Zxing sources from Git: https://github.com/zxing/zxing Step 2: For building the Zxing library project you […]

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Gmail like – Flip animated Multi selection list view with action mode

Editorial Team — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:10:15 +0000

Android Gmail App has a very beautiful and smooth multi selection list, where you can select multiple items and perform an action over the selected items. Here in this tutorial we are going to create a similar effect on custom list where we have a image and a title and on-click of the image it […]

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Android RSS Reader – Part 3: Refresh – ActionBar item with animation

Editorial Team — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:38:52 +0000

Again this is in continuation with the RSS Reader Part 2 in the RSS Reader Series. In this tutorial we will introduce the ‘ActionBar’ and have a refresh item which refreshes the List with a rotating animation effect, a share action bar item in the description view to share the the news. Here’s the video […]

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Android RSS Reader – Part Two (Offline reading, Swipe through detail views)

Editorial Team — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:36:22 +0000

This post is in continuation with the previous Post (Android Simple RSS Reader with Splash Screen and Custom List View.), where we learnt to parse an xml and show that in a ListView followed by a Detail View. In this tutorial we will add some features like ‘offline reading’ and ‘swipe through detail views’. Here’s […]

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