Android, Connected TV

Playing different Videos with Exo-Player in Android TV

There are usually 3 types of videos while streaming in any Video Player. While working on Android TV we categorize these in Dash Videos HLS Videos (.m3u8 & .ts) Others (.mp4,.mpeg etc) We need different types of ExtractorRendererBuilder for playing different videos with Exo-Player. In this article I will be...

by Ankit Kumar Jain
Tag: Android
21-Jul-2016

Android

YouTube Player Integration in Android

YouTube allows you to play it's video in your app using the youtube player. It also provides data APIs to put like, dislike, or rate comments on a video. To integrate youtube player you need API key from google console and you can get it using following steps: 1. Get SHA1 fingerprint first by executing "keytool -list -v -keystore...

by Vaibhav Chahal
Tag: Android
24-Jun-2016

Android, Connected TV

Comparison between smart tv’s : Roku 4 vs Apple Tv (2015) vs Amazon Fire Tv (2015) vs Nvidia Shield Android Tv vs ChromeCast

Smart TVs and chrome cast have amused users with some very compelling features and UX. Every product has different capabilities and qualities and choosing one over the other can vary from person to person according to their needs and past experience with technologies. Three main categories in smart TVs that attract users are: Apps...

by Himanshu Kumar Singh
Tag: Android
22-Jun-2016

Front End Development, Mobility

Working With React Native : Part#1

Introduction React is based on JavaScript created by a collaboration of Facebook and Instagram, It was introduced in 2013. Its main focus is to allow developers to create front-end interfaces easily and rapidly. React isn’t a complete framework. It does not offer various components you’ll find in projects based on Ember or Angular...

by Shivang Goel
Tag: Android
16-Jun-2016

Android, Technology

Android Permission System And Case Study

How to work with Android Permission System in Android M To protect the android system and the user's privacy, Android system runs each application in a limited access sandbox. If the application wants to use resources or information outside of its sandbox, the application has to explicitly request permission. Depending on the type of...

by Shivang Goel
Tag: Android
03-Mar-2016

Android, Technology

Gradle Android Studio

  Gradle Android Studio  Introduction: Gradle is an automated build toolkit that can integrate into lots of different environments, via plugins. Minimize Configuration Required for New Projects: Gradle has a set of default configuration settings that are automatically applied to every project you create in Android Studio. If...

by Shivang Goel
Tag: Android
13-Jan-2016

Technology

6 online shopping apps Indonesians can’t live without

“Whoever said money doesn’t buy you happiness didn’t know where to shop” – Blair Waldorf The number of Internet users in Indonesia has increased since the technology was introduced in the 1980s. A study released by “We Are Social” reported that by the end of 2014, the number of active internet users in Indonesia had...

by Dimas Fattahillah
Tag: Android
01-Dec-2015

Android, Connected TV

An Introduction to Android TV

This blog will introduce you to Android TV platform from what android TV is, How it is different from Android mobile development and finally how to create an Android TV app. Note: This blog  is just the introduction to the Android TV  not a full coverage of Android TV development.What is Android TV ? Android TV was introduced in...

by Bharat Ghimire
Tag: Android
10-Nov-2015

Android, Mobility

mailto links on android devices

Recently we added a feature that uses the mailto link. While testing it was found that working fine on Desktops, iPhones, and iPad's but not on android devices. To debug it quickly, we created a test page with just mailto link in it as shown below <a href="mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again" target="_blank">Send...

by Parampreet Singh
Tag: Android
02-Sep-2015

Android, Mobility

Shared Preferences in Android

Shared Preferences in Android Android Prefereces provide a way to store user and application data in device. It stores primitive data including String objects in key-value pairs. There are several ways to store data in android: Preferences(Shared and User): Store private primitive data in key-value pairs. Internal Storage: ...

by Akhilesh Dubey
Tag: Android
04-Aug-2015

Android, Grails

Push Notification in Android Using Grails

Hi All, I had a use case where I need to send the push notification to Android Device using Grails Application. For sending push notification I have used the Android GCM plugin. So, before going further we should know what is push notification and how it works. Push Notification : It is a message or events delivered by a...

by madhav.khanna
Tag: Android
31-Jul-2015

Android, Mobility

Creating Android Application with Groovy

Groovy 2.4 was released in January 2015, with native support for Android development. It allows to write Android applications fully using Groovy. Running Groovy on Android Step 1: Create a new Android project in Android Studio Step 2: Open this build.gradle (Module: app) file: Insert the following code before the first line: ...

by Simranjit Kour
Tag: Android
23-Jul-2015