Android has evolved to be a stable operating system, at least it doesn’t often freeze or forcefully close applications these days. But still there are devices that run older version of Android and there are plenty of applications developed with bugs, incompatibility to the device firmware and any other issues…
Google started rolling out tabbed Inbox for its users and my first impression with it was great. It’s an opt-in feature as of now and it seems Google might make it permanent in some days. Tabbed Inbox in Gmail is something similar to the filters, that automatically moves certain mails…
Want to create your own ringtone out of audio or video clips? Then AVGO Free Ringtone Maker might be handy. AVGO Ringtone Maker is a free windows application that allows you to convert video or audio clips into ringtones. What’s interesting is, the created ringtone can be set on any…
In continuation to our how-to tutorials on Android Studio, today we’ll see how to create a Start/Splash screen for your Android application. For the demonstration purpose, we will create a very simple splash screen that will load an image at the start and removes it after a specific time. If…
Ok! If you are new to Android development, then you must checkout our Android Studio tutorials. Meanwhile, if you are getting an error ‘R Cannot be resolved’ or ‘Cannot resolve activity_main’, then here’s the fix. While creating a project, you might have set a package name, by default it will be…
In continuation to our how-to tutorials on Android Studio, today we’ll see how to create a Horizontal swipe views in Android using ViewPager and PagerAdapter. You can implement swipe views in your application using ViewPager layout widget, which is available in Android support library (android.support.v4.view.ViewPager). ViewPager is primarily a layout…
In continuation to our tutorial on Getting started with Android studio, today lets try to create a simple app that will read a password as input and display it as Toast using Android Studio. If you were wondering what is Toast in Android, then here it is: Toast in Android…
Google recently launched its new Android Studio for developers during Google I/O event. Soon after its launch, we received mails from our readers to write few How-To articles about Android Studio. As requested, we wrote how to start with Android Studio and also seen few quick fix if you were facing problem…
You have download and installed the new Android Studio, but unable to create a new project? You might be getting an error “Your SDK is out of date or is missing templates“. The reason is due to the older SDK that you had installed with Eclipse ADT Plugin. It means you will…
Everyone might be aware Google launched its new Android Studio based on IntelliJ IDEA, which is similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, that provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging. If you have downloaded and installed the new Android studio and struggled to launch it for the first time,…
Need a simple application to add some spicy look to your iOS Home screen icons? Athena, a new app from Cydia might be handy. It means, you can easily change the color of each app’s icon to your interest without using bulky apps like WinterBoard. Athena comes with wide range…
iPhone is not famous for typing texts, as it is very tedious to do some cut, copy, pastes operations. Similarly typing a lengthy text and deleting it later is also cumbersome. For instance, you can only tap on the text, ‘Select All’ and then delete it. But it’s not the…
Few applications in windows starts during system boot-up, runs in the background and consumes your system resources. If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, then you can quickly jump to ‘msconfig’ and choose the applications that you wish to disable during start-up. But this process much easier on Windows 8,…
If you are mad at games, then you might be aware of Game Center in iOS that lets you save game achievements. But sometimes I feel it does little. For instance, if you had lost your mobile or restored it after wiping the data, then you may lose all of…
A team of researchers, supporting crew and pilots has successfully completed their first fly in a Solar powered aircraft. Solar Impulse, a renewable energy flight successfully landed in Phoenix, Ariz after a fly of 18 hours and 18 minutes from coast to coast. The pilot Bertrand Piccard flew this gigantic…
The business of the Internet, where Internet service providers (also known as ISP’s) provide quick and efficient Internet service to their customers, is about to change considerably. The cause? Two words: Google Fiber. The bar is about to be raised for all Internet companies based on the results of this…
We had already seen about IObit’s AMC and now we have the latest version of Advanced Mobile Care for Android devices, which is an all-in-one Android security and performance optimization app! This version comes with support for more tablets, bug fixes for battery percentage update issue and cache clean issue….
How could anyone not be a fan of this pretty actress? Alison Brie, the Mad Men/Community fame actress shows off her talent by performing popular internet memes on her face and as i told in the title, she does that perfectly and gorgeously. Alison was tasked to recreate the faces…
Do we have to really speak about this? Sometimes I wonder, why do people love cats? Apart from seeing them around my home, I see them on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well. They are hot topic, they are searched more in the internet, they receive more likes and comments…