Let’s first understand the concept of RAM, technically speaking RAM (Random Access Memory) is a volatile storage used to hold data. It can be thought as a big filing cabinet that keeps things on ready to go state for the CPU to use. It’s almost infinitely very fast, re-writable, and used differently by different operating …
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The Redmi note 4 has been released by Xiaomi, and it’s time for some fierce Redmi note 3 vs Redmi note 4 comparison. I have looked at the specification for both the Redmi phones, looked at camera performance and daily performance and here is my opinion, I don’t want the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, …
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We have seen the exponential growth of Android Smartphone market like no other, and the general marketing strategy has been focusing on the terms like more cores, more RAM and faster performance. But does more cores mean more speed? Is octa core better than quad core? Here’s the break down. Quad core vs Octa Core …
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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 …
