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Boost your productivity on Android Studio with Live Templates

As an Android developer, you are used to write very often same kind of code on your project. Here, we don’t talk of the creation of reusable code to avoid rewrite same code between several projects. Here, we talk about simple lines of code that are written all the time. Let’s take a well known sample. You want to display…
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Learn to root the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in just 10 steps

As an Android enthusiast, may be you want to take full control to your Samsung Galaxy S7 or your Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. How to achieve that ? By rooting your device obviously. But, be warn that rooting your Android device is at your own risks ! That being said, you can already root the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7…
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Learn to make faces recognition programmatically in Android

For Android applications that offer to users possibilities to manage photos or images, it can be very useful to add a faces recognition feature. To achieve that, you have basically two options : first is to find a faces detection algorithm and to implement it. It can be a very good exercise but when you make Android applications, you wanna…
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Be inspired and motivated on Android with My Quotes Book !

Smartphones and tablets let us to make a lot of common tasks each day. We use them to read news, know weather and forecasts, have fun with games or take photos. But, do you know that you can also use your Android device to be inspired and motivated daily ? Indeed, My Quotes Book, a free application, helps you to…
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How to get Battery Information programmatically in Android ?

Android OS lets to developers to get a lot of data about features of a device. Amongst these data, it’s possible to get Battery Information for exemple. An application like CPU Hardware and System Info is able to give you following information about your Battery : Present or No Health Level Plugged Charging Status Technology Temperature Voltage Capacity You can…
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Make your REST client easily in Android with Retrofit

Very often, Android applications are connected to backend services and consume REST services to get data. When you think to that kind of apps, you can imagine an application that displays weather to a user and get data from a backend service. Or you can imagine a Todo client that stores todos on server to offer users to check their…
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Transform your Android smartphone into a Real Xylophone !

Since its apparition, smartphones are become essential in the life of users. Smartphones and even tablets let users to make a lot of tasks each day. Users are really addict. Amongst the large number of use cases possibles for smartphones and tablets, entertainment and games take a big part. Thus, it's now possible to use his smartphone or his tablet to…
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6 tips for developers to save battery usage in Android applications

Smartphones and tablets become more powerful each year but unfortunately, batteries don’t evolve at the same speed. Save battery usage in an Android application is essential for your users. Here, we offer to developers 6 tips to save battery usage when they make Android applications : Avoid using wake locks if your application really doesn’t need them. To be sure, go…
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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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