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Industry News - Week of Mar. 8, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Tweaking Mac Dev Environs; Building Mobile-first Apps; A/B Testing at the New York Times; Setting a Delay with CSS; Cooking Up 'Cookie Consent'; Using JS to Manage CSS the Google Way Tweaking the macOS Development…

Zebra DevTalk | Testing Exported XML before EMM Deployment via OEMConfig | Feb. 2021

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This session will cover the process of exporting raw XML from StageNow, testing it on a Zebra device using a simple helper utility and subsequently deploying to a device via the OEMConfig feature now available in most EMM tools including SOTI, Airwatch/…

Industry News - Week of Feb. 22, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Don't Embed Graphics, Generate Them; A Thumb-only Menu; Leverage Google To Target Zebra; Web Frameworks No Longer Required; The Web Changed, Not You; The 'Front' and 'Back' of the Front-end  Don't Embed Graphics, Generate…

Targeting Zebra Devices with the Play Store Device Catalogue

When distributing your application through Google’s Play Store, which devices it runs on is a key consideration, especially in Enterprise. The way the Play Store manages an application's supported devices is through the Device catalogue although that…

Zebra DevTalk | What's New with Mobility DNA | March 2021

Mobile-Computers
Mobility DNA gives Zebra mobile computers their distinct enterprise capabilities. In this session, Darryn Campbell will take you on a whirlwind tour of some of the latest features added to Mobility DNA to make a user’s life easier: from simpler update…

Deploying Your Apps with Android Application Bundles (.aab)

As part of their annual Google Play policy updates, back in November 2020 Google announced that from August 2021 all new apps must publish in the Play Store using the Android App Bundle format (.aab).  This change coincides with the update to target…

Industry News - Week of Feb. 8, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Kotlin 1.5 Preview; 17 Tips for Optimizing JavaScript; Using Emojis the Right Way; Atlassian Cloud Enterprise Meets Demand; Navigating Google's New Location Policy; Ford Looks to Android, Google for the Future Kotlin 1.4.3 Peeks Inside 1.5…

Learning about the Real Purpose and Value of Rugged Head-Mounted Displays

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Integrating DataWedge Into Your Expo Application

Expo is a set of tools and services built around React Native that helps you develop, build, deploy and quickly iterate on cross platform applications using JavaScript or TypeScript. We get occasional questions from our developer community how to write…

Industry News - Week of Jan. 25, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Kotlin 2021 Roadmap; What's Ahead for the PWA; Capacitor 3 Goes to Beta; Xamarin 5.0 Forms: New Features, New Bugs;  ™ Kotlin 2021 Roadmap January is often the time when developers look ahead at what's on the horizon.…

Zebra DevTalk |  Track and Trace with IOTA Blockchain | Jan. 2021

  Learn how to use Zebra Savanna and the IOTA Track and Trace Ledger API with IOTA Libraries. We'll conduct an overview of DLT Technologies, the IOTA Tangle and how to use the Zebra API along with a use case on Track & Trace of goods in…

Using OpenBoard Keyboard as a Replacement for Google Gboard

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Summary This article details how to install the third party OpenBoard keyboard as a replacement for the default Google Gboard keyboard on GMS devices. The main advantages of OpenBoard are that it does not contain shortcuts to any Google apps , has no…
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Industry News - Week of Jan. 11, 2021

IN THIS ISSUE: Android Development 2020 Highlights; Debugging Devices with Xamarin, VS; Improve Code Performance with Systrace; Linux Creator Favors AMD over Intel; How 5G Will Transform 2021; DirectX Creator Dead at 55 2020 Review: 8 Key…

Wrapping Up the Zebra Dev Year 2020

          Thank you for being part of our Zebra Developer Community!       We hope you have a wonderful, safe, and happy holiday season!                    …

Industry News - Week of Dec. 14, 2020

IN THIS ISSUE: Github: Developers Outproduced in 2020; Apps Script IDE Makeover; Debug Websites on Real Mobile Devices; Google Unveils Android Studio Actic Fox, Gradle 7; KISS: The Key to Responsive Tables; Elastic Cloud Now Supports macOS, iOS…

Device Identifiers on Zebra Devices Running Android 10 – The Complete Guide

There are a few sample apps and guides floating around detailing how to retrieve device identifiers on Zebra devices running Android 10 and it is a common area we get questions about so, I thought it made sense to bring everything together in a single…