Beacon Hardware Decision Beacon provides us the ability to create applications which are location aware, context aware and personalized. This is the data which cannot be faked. Beacons come in different shapes and sizes. Since they all need to be based on iBeacon specification, it seems that we can be provider agnostic here. Had this… Continue reading »
Why Different Beacon Specifications? Apple released iBeacon with iOS 7. iOS is a very big segment of smart phone users but there is a big market for android and other OSes as well. As apple made it difficult for the iBeacon manufacturers for providing SDKs for Android, they came up with alternate specifications as a… Continue reading »
What is Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth LE? Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) is also known as Bluetooth Smart. It is designed to provide Bluetooth based functionality without draining the battery power of your device. Bluetooth LE is part of Bluetooth 4.0 specification. You can download the specification from Bluetooth.org. You would find three kinds of… Continue reading »
This is continuation of our post for android app development for viewing GitHub contributions for a user. As we have been going along this path we have been adding different features to the app learning the details about the development of the feature in consideration. In this post we are going to add toast notifications… Continue reading »
This is a continuation of a post for building an android app for displaying GitHub contributions of a user. We are pulling down profile and repository details of the user. As we are adding features to the app, we have been learning about android and its development model. Currently we are at the point that… Continue reading »
This post is amongst the series of post for discussion about development of an App in Android Platform. We have been developing an app, named GitHub Contributions as an example. In each post, we keep adding some new feature to the app, which adds to our knowledge about android. In this post, we are going… Continue reading »
This is a continuation of our post discussing different areas of android development. We are getting introduced to android development while developing an application GitHub Contributions App. There are a number of ways we can delay processing of some work in android. It also allows us to execute these work items on a periodic basis…. Continue reading »
This is a continuation of a post for building an android app for displaying GitHub contributions of a user. We are using name of user for pulling down profile and repository details of the user. As we are adding features to the app, we have been learning about android and its development model. Currently we… Continue reading »
This is a continuation of our posts adding features to GitHub Contributions App. We have been developing this app on android. The app allows loading some important details from the profile of a github user including the repositories list. The information is provided by GitHub through HTTP Service. In this small post, we will be… Continue reading »
In the previous post, we started creating GitHub Contributions App for Andrdoid. We saw how we can access HTTP REST Service using HttpClient, how we can update permissions specially to access network resources, plus the details about performing actions on background thread while showing the result on UI thread. We also saw how we can… Continue reading »