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Industry News - Week of Apr. 20, 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE: What NPM Buy Means for Devs; Google Owns MS Mobile; Team Tips for Social Distancing; Ionic Updates Capacitor Runtime; Mozilla Taps Chairwoman as CEO; Bone Up on Dev Skills for Free Microsoft's NPM Buy, What it Means for…

Zebra Savanna Data Services Webinar Series

We are delighted to share a series of webinars dedicated to Zebra Data Services. We will be joined by a number of expert guest speakers, from Zebra and partners, to lead the discussions on a range of topics across our Zebra Savanna Data Services…

Leverage Barcode Intelligence APIs to Enhance Data Retrieval

Manufacturing, supply-chain services, retail and healthcare industry databases contain a wealth of information about numerous products that can be tracked with barcodes. When frontline workers can scan barcodes and instantly access those databases, they…

Developing Android Apps for the HD4000 | Part 3 - JSON Image Model

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Introduction In the previous two parts of this series, we’ve covered the basics: connecting to & configuring the HUD, as well as some of the intermediate usages: displaying text & images and leveraging android layouts to create more complex HUD…

Industry News - Week of Apr. 6, 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE: IBM Seeking COVID-19 Code Solutions; Microsoft Previews 'Low-code' Dev Tool; Open Source Fonts Trending; Google Giving Away Code Search; Thiea Tries to Eclipse Code; Learn Code, Have Fun IBM Seeks COVID-19 Solutions with Call for Code…

Using DataWedge with Multiple Android Activities

This article assumes familiarity with Zebra's DataWedge tool as well as the DataWedge profile mechanism. For an overview of DataWedge, please refer to the DataWedge Techdocs page A very common use case for many Zebra Android developers is using the…

Learning How to Get Started with LinkOS Android SDK

In this blog, we'll focus on how to get started with the Java Android Link-OS Software Development Kit (SDK). To make it easier, the SDK comes with free developer demos and an apk that can be loaded onto your Android device. You can access all the Link-…

Developing Android Apps for the HD4000 | Part 2 - Displaying Content

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This is part 2 of the blog series - Developing Android Apps for the HD4000 - if you missed part 1, you can check it out here! Introduction There are multiple ways of displaying data on the HUD, depending on what that data is. For example, if we want to…

Zebra Data Services Providing 4 New SDKs

As enterprise software developers, we want things as easy as possible.  The Zebra Data Services team understands and has created 4 new SDKs in your favorite programming languages.  Now you can work with our Data Services using an Android-Java…

StageNow Remote XML – Combining Profiles

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Summary This blog details how to automatically combine up to 10 XML profiles (which have previously been deployed as Remote XML profiles) into one single large profile. This allows re-use of existing profiles to create new profiles quickly and easily e.g…

Industry News - Week of Mar. 23, 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE: All Hands on Android 11; Safari To Reject Long-lead Certs; 'Social Distancing' Calls for Greater Security; Supercomputer Helps Fight Coronavirus; What's New in NativeScript 6.5  A Hands-on Look at Android 11 The Android…

Zebra DevTalk l How to Use Specialized Print Integration Tools l Wednesday April 15, 2020

Experience the faster and smarter way to easily integrate printers with devices and applications your customers use today. For web printing, we'll showcase our Cloud Connect and Browser Print applications. Moving into Android we will show the new…

Industry News - Week of Mar. 9, 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE: Myriad Reasons to Consider Google Flutter; Creeping Closer to 'Skynet'; At 60, COBOL Still Going Strong; The Costs of Technical Debt; Build a VM, Earn $200K   Myriad Reasons to Consider Google Flutter If you're seeking a platform…

Zebra DevTalk I What's New with TechDocs? I Wed. March 18, 2020

Think you know how to use TechDocs? Think again. Learn the inner workings of TechDocs, Zebra's primary site for developer documentation. Learn what's new on the site and explains how to quickly find what you need by optimizing searches and exploring…

Getting Started With Zebra's Print DNA Toolbox

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By Courtney Adams Welcome to Zebra’s Print DNA, part of the Zebra DNA family. Zebra’s Print DNA transforms Zebra Link-OS printers into highly intelligent, high performing, remotely managed devices; allowing Link-OS printers to have security with easy…

Industry News - Week of Feb. 24, 2020

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IN THIS ISSUE: Red Hat OpenStack 16 Released; Q&A: Making Hardware Easy for Software Devs; Who Should Own RPA?; C++20 Has Arrived; IT Salary Report 2020; Designing Apps for One-handed Use Red Hat's OpenStack 16 Does Live Updates Linux maker Red…