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I recently added Firebase Performance Plugin to one of my projects and experienced a drastic increase in the build time of the app. The app initially used to build in under 20 seconds and with the addition of this plugin, it started taking around 5–6 minutes for a single build.

The NFC Data Exchange Format ( NDEF) is a standardized data format that can be used to exchange information between any compatible NFC device and another NFC device or tag. The data format consists of NDEF Messages and NDEF Records.

In the first part of this article we got an introduction about various frameworks available to us for writing tests for an Android app. We also saw some best practices that could be followed to write more testable code.

In app development, a variety of use cases and interactions come up as one iterates the code. The app might need to fetch data from a server, interact with the device’s sensors, access local storage, or render complex user interfaces.

Wikimedia Commons features many images regularly on its main page. As described by Commons, Featured pictures are images from highly skilled photographers and illustrators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.

Long back we used AWS to set up a PHP and MYSQL application. This weekend will work with Amazon Polly to deploy our own TTS application. Amazon Polly is a Text-to-Speech service that uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice.

The Wikimedia Commons Android app is an open-source app created and maintained by grantees and volunteers of the Wikimedia community. Wikimedia Commons - Android Apps on Google Play The Wikimedia Foundation is not involved directly in the creation, development or creation of the app.

Recently, I started Reading Kotlin In Action by Dmitry Jemerov and learned about Data classes in Kotlin. It’s one of the best books out there to get started with Kotlin. You can buy the paperback edition of the book from Amazon.

I wrote a simple activity in Koltin which takes a user name as input and simply displays it in the TextView. Here’s how the activity looks like. And the code for the activity is,

Take a look at the below string <string name="notifications_talk_page_message" formatted="false">%s left a message on your %s page</string> The string contains a format parameter, %s which can be replaced by a string value.