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What it Takes to Get an e-Commerce Site Online

Getting an e-Commerce website online might sound like a huge undertaking,...

WebView Interactions with JavaScript

WebView displays web pages. But we are interested not only in web-content...

Google Maps API for Android

Google Maps is a very famous and helpful service, which firmly entrenched...

Unit Testing with RSpec

RSpec is an integral part of Test Drive Development (TDD) and its main id...

Client side JavaScript: Knockout in practice

When developing a web application that extensively works with user input ...

Accessing Field Configurations in JIRA for changing field description

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A Guide for Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 4.2.0

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Android

03 Sep 2015

WebView Interactions with JavaScript

WebView displays web pages. But we are interested not only in web-content demonstration we want to interact with this web-content. In this article we’ll try to explain some details of this process.

First of all if you want to download web pages from Internet, please do not forget about this permission in AndroidManifest file.

<uses-permission Android:name="Android.permission.INTERNET" />

There are several ways to set content for WebView:

WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.WebView);
// Ex 1: set URL address: webView.loadUrl("https://www.android.com/"); // Ex 2: set .html from a raw folder: webView.loadUrl("file:///Android_res ...
04 Jun 2015

Google Maps API for Android

Google Maps is a very famous and helpful service, which firmly entrenched in our lives. With the Google Maps Android API you can add maps based on Google Maps data to your application. The API automatically handles access to Google Maps servers, data downloading, map display, and response to map gestures. You can also use API calls to add markers, polygons, and overlays to a basic map, and to change the user's view of a particular map area.

In this article we’re going to show you how to work with Google Maps Android API.

1. Create project on ...

03 Jun 2015

JmDNS (Java Multicast DNS) using in Android

In this article we desire to tell about connecting devices wirelessly. You agree that this is may be very helpful functionality for almost each mobile application. We can realize a lot of situations for this feature using.

20 Apr 2015

Google Direction API for Android

The Google Directions API is a service that calculates directions between locations using an HTTP request. Service provides different parameters for HTTP request. This API is designed for calculating directions for static addresses, and not designed to use it for real-time user input.

18 Feb 2015

Storing Your Data Securely on NFC Tags from Android

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4 cm or less to initiate a connection. NFC allows you to share small payloads of data between an NFC tag and an Android-powered device, or between two Android-powered devices.

Android-powered devices with NFC simultaneously support three main operation modes:

  1. Reader / writer mode, allowing the NFC device to read and / or to write passive NFC tags and stickers.
  2. P2P mode, allowing the NFC device to exchange data with other NFC peers; this operation mode is used by Android Beam.
  3. Card emulation mode, allowing the ...