Machine learning is currently gaining popularity. Since training models is labor-intensive, its application in Android is considered with reluctance. However, Google has made this task easier for us with the introduction of ML Kit. In this article, we will briefly look at the capabilities of ML Kit and write an application that recognizes text in… Read More »
WebView is a component with which you can display web pages. However, we are not only interested in showing the content of the page, we also need to interact with this content. In this article, we will try to explain some of the details of this process. Important! First of all, if you want to… Read More »
Moving various objects is often used in mobile games and various multimedia applications. In this article, we will look at how to add images to the screen and move them freely. To do this, we need to perform the following steps: Create layout with the FrameLayout component. Create an ImageView programmatically for the added image… Read More »
Sometimes there are times when you get stuck on a very simple task. I never had to interact with compressed archives (zip, 7Zip and so on) on Android, and I could not imagine that it would be a difficult task. The difficulty here was not to do this, but to find the normal documentation, which… Read More »
Nowadays, the most popular and convenient ways to read are electronic books. They can be taken with you anywhere, they save paper, the display of text in them can be customized as convenient for the human. For these reasons, many e-book formats have appeared, the main ones being EPUB, FB2 and MOBI. The well-known DOC… Read More »
Because the signature key is used to verify that you are the developer of the application, and to provide secure updates for your users, securing the key is very important to both you and the users. There are various ways to sign your applications. Recently, Google added a new feature to store keys: in its… Read More »
In the Android system, key-value pairs are used to store information. With their help, you can store the values of variables, or various information that the application may need in the future. And although the SDK already has a ready interface, called SharedPreferences, which provides methods for saving and reading settings in the application, there… Read More »
In the previous article, we considered several interesting ways to use the bottomless repositories of Pavel Durov’s legacy. In today’s material, I will propose to you to develop this topic and share the skills of developing a client for our favorite social network. Again the theory To get records from the wall, the wall.get method… Read More »
To yong users VK gives unlimited opportunities of online communication. Mature employees of special services – voluntarily and personally created the dossier on the above group of citizens. And what can it give to the programmer? Of course, the free infrastructure for its application! In conditions when there is no server, and someone else offers only… Read More »
Since June 1, 2014, one of my applications has experienced 65 updates and in December 2015 has finally received more than ten million installations. So I felt that I have the moral right to make an article with tips on how to achieve similar prosperity :). 1. Investigate the market and make a plan Development… Read More »