Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Quick Settings Tile API Example in Android N

Quick settings is undoubtedly one of the most popular feature in Android devices. It provides a convenient way to quickly change the device settings or key actions directly from the notification panel.

Like always, Google never disappoint developers. This time, Android N introduced the new Quick Settings Tile API and allow developers to add their own quick setting actions. Now Quick Settings Tile adds more room for additional custom actions and you can swipe left/right to access more settings.
Please note, Quick Settings tiles are reserved for controls or actions that are either urgently...
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Quick Settings Tile API Example in Android N

Quick settings is undoubtedly one of the most popular feature in Android devices. It provides a convenient way to quickly change the device settings or key actions directly from the notification panel.

Like always, Google never disappoint developers. This time, Android N introduced the new Quick Settings Tile API and allow developers to add their own quick setting actions. Now Quick Settings Tile adds more room for additional custom actions and you can swipe left/right to access more settings.
Please note, Quick Settings tiles are reserved for controls or actions that are either urgently...
Posted under #Android. Read full article from StackTips.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Customize Your Wordpress Admin Using Smart Dashboard Extras Plugin

Use Smart Dashboard Extra plugin to customize your WordPress admin dashboard by selectively removing interface elements and add more features. This Plugin comes handy with set of WordPress hooks, to customize admin interface elements in your WordPress dashboard. This also adds some extra important features that you always wanted to have.
Wordpress Admin Features
Currently the Smart Dashboard Extra plugin supports following features:

It adds the contributors the ability to upload media
Limit contributors and authors to their own post
Notify website administrator when another ...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

URL Shortening Services Similar To Google URL Shortener and TinyURL

The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) Shortening services are gaining traction in the age of twitter and smart messaging, when the number of characters really matters. They are used for taking the long URLs and squeezes them into short form to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends.

For example, the URL "http://stacktips.com/author/nilanchala" can be shortened to "http://goo.gl/7367BB". It is basically a redirect service. When the short URL is opened it will be redirected to the original web link.

There are various reasons why people use URL shortening services. Fo...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

How Limit Authors and Contributors to their Own Post in WordPress

If you running a multi author site, you will notice that all authors and contributors are able to see the posts from other users. Although they cannot edit or modify, but you may not want to see the posts which are in review or in draft.

https://youtu.be/kAMJtnck3-8

You can do this by using View Own Post Media Only WordPress plugins. But for this little job, I personally do not recommend to use such plugging.

This little code hack will help you to limit your authors and contributors to their own posts in WordPress admin. Copy and past the following code in you function.php...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Best Online Payment Services Alternative to PayPal

PayPal is is a giant in the online Payment space. PayPal makes it easy to send, receive and even request for money across borders. It is one of the most popular online payment service globally used by most of the merchants and users. As a user it is easy to use and for seller it provides API's for seamless integration.

In my personal experience, while making a online purchase I always hesitate to provide credit card details, unless I personally trust the brand. There are always security concerns. However, if their payment method includes PayPal alternative, I choose PayPal and do the purc...
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Saturday, July 9, 2016

How to Customize YouTubePlayer Controls in Android

The YouTube Android Player allows you to customize the playback control by setting one of the style defined in YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle enumeration. It currently support three styles DEFAULT, MINIMAL or CHROMELESS;

YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.DEFAULT – The default style, showing all interactive player controls.
YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.MINIMAL – The minimal style displays only a time bar and play/pause controls.
YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.CHROMELESS – A style that shows no interactive player controls. When you use CHROMELESS, you need to write your own controls for play, pause or se...
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