What is the Progress Bar in Android? Progress Bar is a widget in android which is used to indicate the loading screen within an android application. It is generally displayed when the data is being loaded within an android application from a server. In this article we will take a look on How to change progress bar color in Android. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be simply displaying a text view for displaying the heading of our application and we will be displaying a progress bar. We will be changing the color of ... Read More
SEO can be a tricky process with so many components that need to be considered. One component you may not have heard about is website redirects, and their impact on the performance of your site. Redirect chains are particularly significant if they involve multiple pages or organizations. In this blog post, we’ll explore what exactly redirects do and how they can affect your website performance as well as SEO rankings. We'll examine some that are more beneficial than others and provide recommendations for best practices when using them. Whether you're relatively new to SEO or an experienced marketer, ... Read More
Introduction Many times in android applications a keyboard has popped when the user clicks on any text input field. In some cases we have to restrict users to enter the data into the text input field via a menu. In that case we have to hide the keyboard for that text input field explicitly. In this article we will take a look on How to capture show/hide events for the virtual keyboard within our Android application. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying a simple text view in which we will be displaying ... Read More
Introduction Many times while building an android application we use open source libraries which are present on github to add certain functionalities within our application. These libraries can be added in our project by simply specifying the dependency and then we can the functionalities of that library within our application. In this article we will take a look on How to add a Library Project to an Android Project. Implementation In this article we will be creating a simple Android Project and inside this project we will be creating a Library Project and using that Library Project within our main ... Read More
Introduction Mobile devices have now become a large part of our daily lives. We can use these mobile devices to gain information to communicate with the rest of the world and perform our day to day tasks. While performing so many day to day tasks on our mobile devices we use so many applications and we come across a lot of data within our applications. Either we store our data inside our mobile applications or we provide data to the applications. Most of the applications store the data inside the data/data folder or an android device. The data/data folder within ... Read More
Introduction Many mobile applications specify the feature within it to capture the user's image through the front camera. We can get to see this type of feature in applications such as Snapchat, Instagram and others. In this article we will take a look on How to open front camera in our android application and display the captured image within our application. Implementation of Front Camera in Android We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying a simple text view to display the heading of our application. After that we will be displaying an image view ... Read More
Introduction Android applications use different types of strings to be displayed inside different types of views such as text view, buttons and others. In most of the cases instead of hard coding the strings inside the code. It is preferred to add these strings inside the strings.xml file so that it becomes easy to modify and manage those strings across all the projects. Along with that this will help to enable internalization for the strings to be used within our application. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be displaying two text views. One for ... Read More
Introduction Android phones are designed with a wide range of features and capabilities, including a Power button that allows users to turn the device on and off. Power button in an android device is used to switch on and switch off the mobile device. In this article we will take a look on How we can switch off our android phone programmatically. Implementation We will be creating a simple project in which we will be displaying a simple text view for displaying a heading in which we will be displaying the simple heading. Along with this text view we ... Read More
Do you want to make sure your website is easily accessible and understood by visitors all over the world? Are you looking for a way to increase visibility and search engine optimization in other languages? Look no further than hreflang! Hreflang tags are a simple code used to tell Google that there are multiple versions of a web page - and can help your site be displayed correctly no matter where people view it from. This guide will cover everything beginners need to know about how to use hreflang on their website, so let’s get started! What is Hreflang? Even ... Read More
Are you struggling with your search engine optimization (SEO) and website pagination? Are you looking for a comprehensive guide to ensure your website is optimized for SEO? Look no further because in this post, we will discuss the best practices for successful SEO-friendly pagination. This article will provide the necessary steps to ensure that all content on your website is discoverable by search engines and can be accessed easily by users. Read on to learn more! Understanding SEO-friendly Pagination Pagination is the process of breaking up big collections of content into smaller, easier-to-navigate pages in the setting of search ... Read More