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5 notes on MVP architecture pattern for Android
Image credits Macoscope MVP (Model View and Presenter) is an architectural pattern inspired by the popular MVC pattern. MVP addresses two main points : Make views as…
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How to detect emails, phone numbers, web URLs, hashtags in Android TextView? : SmartTextView library
Smart Text View Star On GitHub Follow On GitHub Many applications in android use TextView that detects and highlight various string patterns like emails, phone numbers, web URLs and even hashtags. This functionality is very common and and is used extensively and frequently in many app. Thus to ease the process of adding this functionality…
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Business in Boxers : 1 Month Into Running a StartUp
Why the Series? (Inspired by book : Business In Blue Jeans) Hi! This is Priyank. This series is about me pen downing my start-up ride. Don’t know if it’s fast or slow, all I really know is I’m gonna enjoy the ride. Why the name? Boxers is what you’ll find me almost every time in and…
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Practice Shapes : Android App To Learn Shapes
Only way to learn something is to learn it by yourself. Recently I have been playing with Canvas in android and it has been fun! 😀 As they say knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in vegetable basket. And best way to persist new gained “wisdom” is to put…
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Rails Number Helper Port to Android
A polyglot developer will understand, there is always something you like about one language and you wish was available for another language too. So, recently I started learning rails and found number_helper API very cool and fun to use. It gives you easy API to convert numbers into many formats like number_to_human which will convert 20000 to 20 Thousands or…
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Making GCM client in Android and Application server in Ruby on Rails
It is always fun to play with new APIs and tools. GCM is not something I was getting my hands on for the first time but it changed completely since last time I did a project using this. But the good news is it has changed for good. New service classes makes it easier to…
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Paint App in Android
Recently I was learning about Canvas and Custom views in Android and to put the theory in practice I made a pretty simple Paint App. Source code of the app can be found https://github.com/priyankvex/Paint-App-Android. The App is pretty simple with features 1. Create Drawings (Obvious one :P). 2. Select different brush sizes. 3. Eraser with…
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Making an OCR app for Android using Tesseract.
Star on GitHub Recently I was playing with OCR library by google called as “Tesseract” (cool name for a library!). It was a fun experience. This post shows how you can make a simple OCR app in Android using Tesseract. We will be using Tess-Two a fork of Tesseract…
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How to build Tesseract OCR library for Android Studio?
Star On GitHub If you ever tried to create an OCR app for Android you must have stumbled upon the OCR library by Google Tesseract. And then the problems began. To use the library in your project you first need to build it. But building the library to be compatible with gradle, which is the new…
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5 Coolest features of Android Studio
Android Studio is out and stable now. It is always fun to try new tools. Right? So far it has been around 2 months since I have been using Android Studio. And I guess it is the best time to select my personal choice of 5 coolest features of it. If you want some technical…