We've been through various Android Quick Tips. This week we'll focus on Intents. {{outline}} Internal use of startActivityForResult() Every Android developer is aware of the startActivityForResult(Intent i) to call external apps to do something specific and get the result back, like calling the camera app to take a photo. …

After we've looked at loading, displaying and manipulating images, we'll move on to optimize the process. One of the fundamental features of successful and efficient image loading is caching. In this post, we'll go through the basics of caching in Glide. Notice — August 30th 2017 Glide has released a 4. …

You already know how to use PM2 to start and stop processes. Honestly, installed tools, utilities and apps on your server to run your actual applications are one of the things you don’t want to touch that often and PM2 is no exception. Once everything is installed and running, …

Server labels aren’t available in hapi v17 This tutorial is only applicable until hapi v16. Multiple connections and the server.select() method are not available in hapi v17 anymore. Using hapi as the framework of choice for building web apps or APIs brings a lot built-in functionality to leverage …

NPM is the package manager of choice when working with Node.js. We don’t need to emphasize the importance of knowing your tools and of course, this holds true for NPM as well. This post will show you tips and tricks using NPM to show installed packages for your …

After looking at various Android Quick Tips, this week we'll look at a few more of our favorite productivity tips for Android Studio. {{outline}} Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Shortcuts Shortcuts are the single most important "hack" for developer productivity. Your development time is valuable, and often, when you're in the flow, your …

In the previous tutorials you've looked at displaying images from all kind of sources. You've learned how to manipulate the image display, change the size and scaling of the images with standard options. This tutorial will show you a unique feature of Glide: displaying Gifs and thumbnails of local videos. …

The last two blog posts on PM2 covered the utility overview and guided you through the process management including start, restart, stop and delete processes of various types (Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc). Once you have processes started with PM2, you want to get a comprehensive overview of currently …