The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As an Android developer, you’ll often run into the scenario where you need to perform tasks and display notifications for your app in the background. To retain battery power on our users device we are going to run background tasks using a broadcast receiver. This will prevent a thread from constantly running in the background draining the battery quickly over time.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I work in a room in my basement. It works well enough, but it’s small and quite dark. The only source of external light is a small window that looks out underneath our front porch. Contrary to what Hollywood may have you believe about the “developer in a basement”, I actually do enjoy light. So I have spent a decent chunk of time researching how to properly light small, windowless rooms.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Today, I’m thrilled to announce several major features that significantly enhance the development experience on DynamoDB. We are introducing native support for document model like JSON into DynamoDB, the ability to add / remove global secondary indexes, adding more flexible scaling options, and increasing the item size limit to 400KB. These improvements have been sought by many applications developers, and we are happy to be bringing them to you.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 10, 2014

OTP Safe for Android and iOS has just been released in the Google Play and iTunes app stores. OTP Safe makes use of the time-based one-time password ( TOTP ) algorithm common for two-factor authentication ( 2FA ) for websites and other applications. This mobile app, like Snapper for Digital Ocean , was created using AngularJS and Ionic Framework. The post OTP Safe Released appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The developers at Ionic Framework are constantly releasing updates to both their CLI and base install. With great new features and fixes in every release, you’re going to find yourself wanting to upgrade frequently. But how does one do this? As of right now there is no magical all in one ionic update command. These are the steps to update your CLI and base library for a given project.

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The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2014

I’ve been developing Android apps for a few years now. During this time, I’ve had the opportunity to try a huge selection of software, some of which didn’t work as well as I’d hoped and some of which that exceeded my expectations. Although these tools are my personal preference, I am confident they will change your Android development strategies and how you develop your apps.

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