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Google Releases Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS
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Google Releases Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS

June 12, 2017
Over the years, Google has released many open-sourced projects to aid developers in coding for their platforms. One such project is called Blockly, an open source library for building drag-and-drop visual editors for a multitude of programming languages. With the Blockly library, it uses a visual set of interlocking blocks that you can drag and...
Create Your Own 2D Game With BobEngine
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Create Your Own 2D Game With BobEngine

January 4, 2015
Making a game is by all means a challenging task. To become successful, a game has to be well written, interesting and fun to play, otherwise it will slowly die buried somewhere in the Google Play Store. If you have an idea how to make an interesting game and would like to find the tool...
MultiImagePicker Library for Multiple Image Selection
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MultiImagePicker Library for Multiple Image Selection

December 28, 2014
App development can be done in more than a handful of ways. You can write every single library and line of code from scratch, or can start with a repertoire of publicly available projects and libraries. To give users a nice way of sharing the photos, some social networking applications offer the ability to select multiple images and share...
Simplify SQLite Usage on Android with DBXDroid
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Simplify SQLite Usage on Android with DBXDroid

December 8, 2014
SQLite is a relational database management system contained in a C programming library. Its initial release was way back in 2000, and since then the project has been actively developed. You can find SQLite included in many operating systems like Windows Phone, NetBSD, and of course our favorite Android. SQLite instances are also available on all...
Add Charts to Your Application with HelloCharts
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Add Charts to Your Application with HelloCharts

October 15, 2014
Charts give you a way to represent your data in a clear and concise manner. This becomes even more important on mobile devices, where screen sizes require you to provide your data in a straight forward manner, and users expect a simple representation instead of an overwhelming table. There are several libraries that allow you to...
AndroidCtrlUI.dll Lets Devs Browse Device Files in Windows Explorer
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AndroidCtrlUI.dll Lets Devs Browse Device Files in Windows Explorer

September 26, 2014
In the not too distant past, we talked about AndroidCtrl.dll, an interesting library that can be used with various Windows-based projects to communicate with Android devices. This library is a set of tools written in C# .NET 4 that enhances the original capabilities of ADB, Fastboot, and other basic Android communication methods. The developer of this library,...
AndroidCtrl.dll Adds Universality to Your Development Project
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AndroidCtrl.dll Adds Universality to Your Development Project

September 12, 2014
ADB and Fastboot are some of the most basic and yet most powerful tools available on Android. We use them practically on a daily basis to get bug reports or simply flash a kernel onto our devices. While these tools are good to the end user, developers may find them a bit limited and may want to enhance their capabilities...
Integrate Social Networks Into Your Project With ASNE Library
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Integrate Social Networks Into Your Project With ASNE Library

August 29, 2014
Social network applications and services have developed into major parts of our lives. It's hard to imagine a world without Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or VK. We use them to contact our friends, inform others about our hobbies, or simply read the news from selected RSS feeds every day. When you are browsing the Web, you can find...
Get Better Debug Data with Crash Report SDK
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Get Better Debug Data with Crash Report SDK

August 21, 2014
Developing an application is a hard and often times ungratifying task. It also requires quite a lot of time and even more focus. No matter how good the application is, it will always contain some bugs that need to be squashed sooner or later. Developers can't detect all the bugs on their own, so they...
Easily Add Google Keep-Like Picker with ReminderDatePicker Library
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Easily Add Google Keep-Like Picker with ReminderDatePicker Library

August 8, 2014
For some time, Google has placed a relatively heavy emphasis on design. This trend is resoundingly obvious in their minimalist homepage, as well as in the recently updated Android L Developer Preview. Design trends and guidelines, however, do not remain stagnant, but rather evolve and change every few years or so. New components, foundations, patterns and, even languages are constantly being...
Add an Android L-Style Floating Button to Your App with FABulous Library
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Add an Android L-Style Floating Button to Your App with FABulous Library

July 14, 2014
It's been a while since Android L's official unveiling. We are now waiting for Google to squash all the bugs and release this bad boy to the public. One of the major improvements introduced in Android L is Material Design. In due time, most apps should will be polished to meet new guidelines, but some devs have begun...
Add Gesture Support To Your Application with Airy
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Add Gesture Support To Your Application with Airy

July 2, 2014
Android's user interface allows for the use of various types of gestures. Accordingly, they have been used in quite a few projects. Gestures like two-finger swipes can be found in third party apps or even bigger projects like HTC Sense. And to many, the use of gestures enhances the Android experience by making things more streamlined, without the...