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Peg Solitaire Brainvita : Rediscover the famous wooden game of our childhood

Did you have some memories when you was a kid ? When smartphones and tablets didn't exist ? One of the greatest game we loved to play was the Peg Solitaire Brainvita. Played on wooden board, Peg Solitaire is a game for one player involving movement of pegs on board with holes.   With Peg Solitaire Brainvita, you can rediscover this…
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FreeCell Solitaire : Rediscover a well known game of Windows XP era

One of great way to have fun on Windows XP was to play the games offered by Microsoft in standard. Amongst these games, there was FreeCell Solitaire an implementation of the classical card game. FreeCell Solitaire is a solitaire-based card game played with a 52-card standard deck. FreeCell is a fun and classic one player card game. This variant of…
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Discover ARTIK, the Samsung IoT development platform

IoT (Internet of Things) will be the next big thing after the smartphones' revolution. All the actors of mobile ecosystem know that and prepare the future by making alliances or creating their own IoT development platform. In that frame, Samsung has launched its own answer named ARTIK. ARTIK is an IoT development platform already production-ready that aims to be dominant from…
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Learn to turn any song into a ringtone on Android

Android smartphones let you to make a million of cool things. Amongst these things, create a ringtone or a notification sound from a song is a big classic. But, how can you achieve that on Android simply and efficiently ? To achieve that, we're going to use a simple and awesome application named MP3 Cutter and Ringtone Maker that can be…
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How to create a layout with rounded corner borders in Android ?

In Android, when you define your user interface in XML, you can define a border for layouts. However, these borders are rectangles by default. May be, you could want to create a layout with rounded corner borders. You know how to achieve that in CSS but you don't know how to make that in Android. This tutorial is made for…
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How to set a particular font for a Button or a TextView on Android ?

In standard, Android offers a simple font for all views that display texts to the screen. Effect is great but sometimes you could want customize your application by using your specific font and offers to your users an awesome effect. To achieve that, you need to load the specific font and install it on your View. This article show you…
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Use Wi-Fi rather USB to connect to your Android device via ADB

ADB connection via USB port is the most known method used by developers to connect to their Android devices.   However, there are some problems by connecting via USB Port : 1/ Impossible to move around with device for testing purpose 2/ It damages cable and with time, you should change the cable 3/ USB Socket of Android device can also…
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Monitor your Android device with CPU Hardware and System Info

Android devices became more and more powerful. Now, Smartphones and Tablets are real computer with pocket size. Besides, Android devices make always more operation in background that users ignore. To monitor and know what are the capacities of your device ? What are its data and information ? You can now get CPU Hardware and System Info a simple and…
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App Reviews

Enjoy simple and efficient Drawing features on Android with Tiny Paint

Smartphones and tablets have a lot of impressive possibilities. Among these, draw something on the screen and show the result displayed is one great possibility. At some point in time, each one of us has probably already attempted to draw something to take a quick note or to entertain kids. Google Play Store has a lot of applications letting users…
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Use Visual Studio Emulator for Android with your Android Studio IDE

At the end of 2014 year, Microsoft has announced a fast and free Hyper-V compatible Android emulator usable to make Android developments in Visual Studio IDE. However, Android Studio and still Eclipse ADT are the primary options used by developers to make Android applications. Since Visual Studio Emulator for Android is very appreciated by developers thanks to its great performances…
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