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App Architecture Study: Instagram

App Architecture Study: Instagram

Instagram is one of the most used social media apps in Android and iOS. The core functionality of this app is around sharing photos instantly and it performs this function with a certain simplicity and elegance. We can learn a lot about design when we delve deeper into the design

How to create the 'Share to' popup in Android using share intent?

Providing the option for users to share data from your app to another app is very useful. This feature maybe used just to share the install link of your app for reference credits or just for social sharing. Google provides a very simple method of sharing data to other apps.

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Understanding and Leveraging Machine Learning in Conversational AI (using Rasa)

What makes a good conversation? A good conversation is one where you get the person you are speaking with interested in speaking, maybe by asking a few questions, making small talk and the filler conversation. Consider this conversation: Me: Hi, I am Gaurav. John: Hi, I am John. Me: How

General Resources: Interesting Frameworks, Articles & Videos

Below you will some interesting resources and articles that will help you in your development journey. Have a look and you may find something that will help in the learning process. CodingRadio provides you with music to help you focus https://codingradio.xyz/?ref=producthunt Compendium Maps: a visual summary

GitHub Repos that you should check out

Github is a very useful source of a lot of open source projects. If you find any repo of your interest from the list below, fork it and go through the code. Reverse engineering is a good way to learn. This process will give you a lot of questions, which

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Resources for Machine Learning: From the basics to working models

The textbook definition of Machine Learning goes something like this: a subset of Artificial Intelligence that uses statistical techniques to get computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. Simply put, Machine Learning is making computers learn like humans by training it. Below you will find a pool of resources from

Python Resources: Getting Started to Going Full Stack

Python is one of the most used languages. Whether you are starting out with the basics of programming or if you want to build a full stack web app or a smart machine learning algorithm, python is a great language that will you seamlessly implement your solution. Check out some

Getting Started with Machine Learning: Starting at the End by understanding Rasa NLU

Getting Started with Machine Learning: Starting at the End by understanding Rasa NLU

Getting started with Machine Learning is a daunting task. Where do I start in this complex maze? Should I start in the center or at the edges? Math or Algorithms? What made sense was to start at the end. But what end? There are many projects that have been built

How to remove padding around button widgets in Android?

When using the default button widget in Android, you can see that the button comes with its own preset padding. When trying to stylize the button with a custom background, it gets really annoying to have this fixed background. You can remove the padding around the button by using setting

How to display HTML content in UILabel Swift 3

First we take a HTML string as input and then process this string to generate an Attributed String which can be set to the UILabel. Below are the steps in the process: * Data is taken from the string using the unicode encoding. let data = string.data(using: String.Encoding.unicode,

How to get the time in Android relative to current time? - In number of seconds, minutes, hours or days ago

Many a time, we shall be dealing with time in a number of varied DateTime formats. We have discussed about some of the ways to standardize DateTime in a previous article. In this article, we shall learn how to get the time relative to current time. Without further adieu, lets

Links that you must follow while developing for Android

Links that you must follow while developing for Android

While developing for android, getting an idea of the design to choose or what functionality to implement is a hassle. So below are a set of links that you can use to make your life easier when developing for android: 1. Android Official Developers site: The official Android developers site

How to enable Version Control in Android Studio using Git & Github?

Github is one of the most widely used web-based version control systems, based on Git. It is a useful source code management tool, where you can keep track of versions of your app and all the changes between it. Version control helps you keep a track of changes and rollback

App Rating popup: Creating a Rate My App Alert Dialog

We have already seen the Alert Dialog used to give the users a warning in a simple dialog and for the About and Feedback Dialog. This article illustrates the use of the AlertDialog for requesting the user to rate your app. The RateAppUtil keeps track of the number of times

How to customize the launcher icon using Image Assets in Android Studio?

Android Studio ships with a useful tool to generate image assets. The Asset Studio can be used to create a launcher icon for different screen sizes with or without backgrounds. This tool will help you generate the icons in the standardized format. Follow the steps below to get started with

Working with Fragments: How to use a Fragment in Android?

Fragments can exist within Activities and exist within its lifecycle. You can combine multiple fragments in a single activity to build a multi-pane UI and reuse a fragment in multiple activities. You can think of a fragment as a modular section of an activity, which has its own lifecycle, receives

How to create a custom Alert Dialog in Android? - About & Feedback dialogs

Alert Dialogs are very useful popups that can be used to ask user for confirmation. We have seen a simple use of alert dialog in a previous article. Apart from this, alert dialogs can also be use to get information without getting the user to navigate out of the activity.

Stylizing buttons in Android

Buttons are very simple elements in Android which can perform certain actions on click. These actions can be defined by implementing an onClick Listener. The default buttons provided by Android have a grey color with ripple effect but many-a-time, this button does not go with your theme. You can set

App Architecture Study: Facebook

App Architecture Study: Facebook

Facebook has become one of the most used platforms over the past few years. A social media platform with around 1.79 billion monthly active users, of which around 200 million are from India. With the evolution of the platform, the Facebook app has also evolved over the years. Keeping

How to change the layout of a RecyclerView? - Lists and Grids

A RecyclerView is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView. To create a simple RecyclerView, we need to create a model, view and adapter to initialize the list. Apart from this, a RecyclerView also needs a layout manager to position the items in the list. With a layout manager,

App Architecture Study: Bingo Play and Chat

Bingo – Play and Chat is an android app with the classic Bingo game but with chat. You get to play with your friends and chat with them side by side. This app employs many of the elements of Material Design and showcases multiplayer capability in the classic game of Bingo.

How to move back to previous fragment from current fragment?

Fragments are useful in replacing parts of activity layout with different layouts. When creating a new instance of the fragment, replace the FrameLayout with the fragment. On clicking the back button in an activity with multiple fragments, it will return you to the previous activity and not the previous fragment.

How to display a web page inside an Android app? - Basics of WebView

If you want to deliver a web application (or just a web page) as a part of a client application, you can do it using WebView. The WebView class is an extension of Android’s View class that allows you to display web pages as a part of your activity