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A GitHub Integration with Android Studio

GitHub Integration with Android Studio
Overview This blog will help you in integrating the Github with the Android Studio IDE and also covers the whole process into very simple steps and understandable figures can make the beginners experience the things very easy. Prerequisites I Recommend you to refer my previous blog “An intro to...
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An Intro to Git and GitHub for Beginners – Part 01

An Intro to Git and GitHub
History behind the Github ⦁ File System Handled Before Centralized System ⦁ Centralized System ⦁ Distributed System ⦁ Differences between Centralized and Distributed System File System Handled before – Centralized System ⦁ In the era of 20th Century, there was a big concern with the record management. ⦁ physically...
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Android Custom Content Provider with Example

Introduction: ContentProvider is one of the pillars of Android. It is a component which i)- hides database details (database name, table name, column info. etc.) ii)- allows the application to share data among multiple applications. Steps to create ContentProvider: i)- Create ContentProvider subclass (android.ContentProvider). ii)- Register ContentProvider in AndroidManifest.xml...
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Introduction to Serializable & Parcelable

Serializable and Parcelable in Android
Introduction: Serializable and Parcelable are two interfaces, where Serializable is a standard java interface and Parcelable is an Android-specific interface. Serializable interface implemented by “java.io.Serializable” and Parcelable interface by “android.os.Parcelable”. In Android, if we want to pass the objects to activities then there is a need to implement the...
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Introduction to Android SqLite

SQLite Data
Introduction: Android SQlite is an open source database which comes with Android OS. It is a lightweight database as it requires limited memory at runtime. SQlite is different from other databases. It supports relational database features. It is used to store the user data. We can perform many operations...
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Introduction to Fragments in Android

Fragment-in-Android
Introduction: Fragment is a small part of Activity. It split the Activity into Sub Activity called Fragment that fits into an Activity. This feature was first time introduced in Android 3.0 HoneyComb (API level 11). There is no need to add any permissions inside a manifest file to create...
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Sliding TabLayout Example in Android

Sliding TabLayout
Introduction: This feature comes with Android design support library. Android Sliding Tab Layout shows a custom view pager, tab strip which provides us a continuity in the layout when scrolling. Real Time Example: YouTube application uses the functionality of Sliding Tab Layout. We can see this while sliding it....
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How to Create Splash Screen in Android

Introduction A Splash screen is a graphical control element consisting of a window containing an image, a logo and the current version of the software. A splash screen usually appears while a game or program is launching. @source wiki The splash screen is an activity that will show for a specific time mentioned when...
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JSON vs XML

XML vs JSON
In Web Application Development, we use different types of formats for accessing a data over the web. Today, we will compare two different formats JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and XML (Extensible Markup Language). Both have their particular usage for to & fro data passing. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) –...
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Introduction of RecyclerView in Android

Recycler View in Android
Introduction: Recycler View is a new widget of Android i.e. “android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView”. Recycler View is an advanced form of ListView and GridView. It works like a ListView but it is more flexible and advance with the large data set. By using LayoutManager class in RecyclerView we can show the items...
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