Nokia, the fallen king has finally risen! Everybody is excited about the Android phones that Nokia will be releasing. I personally had never owned a Nokia phone but all the other members of my family have owed a Nokia at some point in there life. I have seen a lot of news and rumors revolving …
Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) uses hardware accelerated virtualization engine that speeds up Android Emulation in a host machine. Without it the Emulator is supposed to run painfully slow as if it isn’t already slow enough. Android Studio shows an error dialog with message Intel HAXM is required to run this AVD when it …
Sometimes you may have forgotten to keep all the possible scenarios in mind and might have missed to handle some possible exceptions, and your Android App Crashes with a nasty exception. In case you were doing some task that you would like to resume and Restart app without user intervention, you can do it in …
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A locked Bootloader in your Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 or any other Android phone prevents you from installing all those cool Custom ROMs, or even rooting in some phones. Every manufacturer like Xiaomi has their own version of bootloader intstalled on their phones. With a locked bootloader phone manufacturers want you to stick to their …
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The SoundPool is a very useful class for playing and managing audio resources in Android applications. While using SoundPool class is fairly easy, there are two different constructors that we can use to initialize the SoundPool class, one is for API version less than 21, and one is for API version 21 and greater. You …
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The good ol’ constructor: SoundPool(int maxStreams, int streamType, int srcQuality) was deprecated in API level 21. We now need to use SoundPool.Builder to create soundPool instance. To use SoundPool in the device running API level >= 21 and API level < 21 just use the following code : if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) { mSoundPool = …
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Changing the background color of tab in TabLayout is fairly simple using the design support library that Android provides. You can simply change the background of the whole TabLayout using the app:tabBackground property and you can change the tab indicator color using the app:tabIndicatorColor property, but there are better ways if you want more functionality.A …
With the release of Android 6.0, named Marshmallow came various new features runtime permissions being a major change. Before Marshmallow, all the permission required to run an app was granted to the app during installation, and mostly users didn’t know what permissions the app was using as they were all granted during installation. With Android …
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While creating awesome games for Unity, you might realize that autocomplete in monodevelop is not working while scripting in C# or any other language you are using, while there can be various reasons for it, the methods that I’ve provided below are sure to fix your problem of no autocomplete in monodevelop. Methods to make …
Text Detection using electronic devices link an Android device using an app is also called optical character recognition (OCR). Since it’s inception OCR has come a long way in terms of speed and ease of use, but we still cannot detect handwritten text and accuracy of OCR depends on various factors. Text recognition in Android …
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