Hi fellow readers, I hope you enjoy reading blogs at TO THE NEW Digital. With newer updates pouring into Mobile OS platforms (viz Android/iOS/Windows), the scenarios for testing also takes a shift. We at TO THE NEW brainstorm test designs around these changes made. In this blog we will focus on understanding one key change made in […]
Android Auto was announced on June 25, 2014, at Google I/O 2014. The Android Auto mobile app was released on March 19, 2015. It is a part of the Open Automotive Alliance(OAA), which was announced on January 6, 2014, and is a joint effort with 28 automobile manufacturers and mobile tech supplier Nvidia. Hyundai became […]
What is retrofit? A type-safe REST client for Android and Java. It is simple to use and much efficient as compare to other methods of using REST apis like Asynctask or Volley. Retrofit is developed by Square and is well documented. Using this library provides a great performance improvement for performing network operations using various […]
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 Mail</a> and then tested this test […]
In geometry, trilateration is the process of determining absolute or relative locations of points by measurement of distances, using the geometry of circles, spheres or triangles. In addition to its interest as a geometric problem, trilateration does have practical applications in surveying and navigation, including global positioning systems (GPS). In contrast to triangulation, it does […]
In our previous post we have given a overview of what Beacon is, so here we are with its practical implementation. There are two applications required to create Beacon experience. 1. Transmitter 2. Receiver For Transmitter – 1. Bluetooth should be on getSystemService(Context.BLUETOOTH_SERVICE) 2. BLE supported device hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_BLUETOOTH_LE)) <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.BLUETOOTH” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN” /> If […]
InAppPurchase, as the name suggests is for purchasing items from within the application i.e., it allows you to put a price tag on your products and sell them in the market using your Android application. Integration of InAppPurchase in android can be achieved in few steps as follows: 1. The very first you need to do […]
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: Store private data on the device memory. […]
android.os.Handler allows us to send and process Message and Runnable objects associated with a thread’s MessageQueue. Each Handler instance is associated with a single thread and that thread’s message queue. Handler used for: Message creation Inserting messages into the queue Processing messages on the consumer thread Managing messages in the queue Construction Of Handler By […]
