Hello Developers! Spring is here and so is the good news: Android™ 13 is available for Zebra devices!
What’s New in Android™ 13 and the Impact on Zebra developers
March 14, 2023
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Industry News - Week of Jun. 13, 2022
June 14, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE: Apple on Safari at WWDC; Kotlin 1.7 Alpha Compiler Preview; How to Keep Coders Happy; The Advantages of Procrastination; Customer Research on a Budget; XCode Cloud Drifts Into Reality
Apple on Safari at WWDC
Apple's annual WorldWide…
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Industry News - Week of May 30, 2022
May 31, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE- Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Goes Native; CMA Says Google Abused Power; Website as App: Thinking Outside the Box; Tweet-to-HTML Made Easy; Eclipse Adoptium Eases Adoption; There's Never Just One Bug
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Goes Native…
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Enterprise Home Screen | Control Settings Available to the User
May 27, 2022
Overview
This article details how to disable the search icon for all Settings screens and how to determine the intent required to call a specific setting such as Bluetooth.
In Android Oreo and later, the default, when accessing settings, is to show the…
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Getting Printer Alerts Using HTTP-POST Messages
May 20, 2022
In this blog, we'll explain how to configure the printer and how to build a listener and an error viewer pages in PHP with a MySQL database on the back to store the alerts.
All the Link-OS printers support the HTTP-POST protocol to send messages from…
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Enterprise Home Screen | Add a Full Screen Link to a Chrome Webpage
May 17, 2022
Overview
This blog details a technique to manually add full screen Chrome shortcuts to the EnterpriseHomeScreen launcher. Unfortunately, this method can only work when manually configured on each device due to Google restrictions on creating pinned…
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Using TestDPC to Test and Demonstrate Zebra Enterprise Browser and Enterprise Keyboard Managed Configurations
May 17, 2022
Overview
Google TestDPC is a sample app which, when installed as DO (Device Owner), will support manual editing of Managed Configurations published by any installed apps. Source code for this app is publicly available on GitHub.
TestDPC allows user to…
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Industry News - Week of May 16, 2022
May 13, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE- Android 13, Beta 2 is Here; Android 13 in Pictures; Chipmunk Debugs Animation; Language Selection Done Right; Microsoft Launches Inclusive Lab; Getting Accurate Test Reports
Android 13, Beta 2 is Here
Google last week unveiled a new beta…
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Industry News - Week of May 2, 2022
April 29, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE - RPA: Old and New Again; Why Are Tools so Bad?; Moving to the Center; Post-pandemic Take-aways; Doing Push Right; When to Follow, When to Lead
Robotic Process Automation: New Tech or Old-School?
While spooky images of humanoid robots…
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Zebra DevTalk | A Technical Deep Dive into Zebra's Enterprise Browser | Wed. May 18, 10 am CDT
April 21, 2022
In this talk, we'll introduce Zebra's Enterprise Browser, what it is, what it's key features are, and why you may want to leverage it in your business. We’ll also provide a technical deep-dive providing a code walk-through of key functionality for common…
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Printing PDFs from Android on Link-OS Printers
April 21, 2022
Intro
This blog walks through the process of printing PDFs from an Android mobile device to a Link-OS printer using PDF direct emulation which is free & pre-enabled on printers running Link-OS V6.3 or later.
Pre-requisites
To implement PDF Printing…
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Industry News - Week of Apr. 18, 2022
April 15, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE: Building Better Breadcrumbs; Using Progressive Enhancement; Chrome 102 Yields Performance Insights; A Shift to Mobile-First Development; IntelliJ IDEA Analyzes Dependencies; When Testing Input, Test Everything
Building Better Breadcrumbs…
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Industry News - Apr. 4, 2022
April 01, 2022
IN THIS ISSUE: GitHub Co-Pilot for VS2022; Mozilla's Future Vision; Chrome Reaches 100; Mdash Works Well With Others; Role of Satellites in the Enterprise; Linux Flaw Found, Fixed
GitHub CoPilot Available for Visual Studio 2022
In a blog post last week…
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Connecting SSI Bluetooth LE to iOS 13+
March 18, 2022
A new security feature from iOS13 xCode11 requires users to give permissions before establishing a Bluetooth connection over SSI BLE, which effects some of our Bluetooth scanners that support SSI BLE. If a user does not grant permission, then the…
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Execute a Script to Start an Application upon Scanner Management Solution (SMS) Execution Completion
March 18, 2022
Learn how to execute a script to start an application once the Scanner Management Solution (SMS) execution is completed, as well as starting an application via a script. This blog applies to both the Zebra Scanner Management Solution, and the Zebra…
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Update Barcode Scanner Firmware via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Using a VBScript
March 18, 2022
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an industry-standard from Microsoft for the management of hardware devices, including Zebra barcode scanners, in a Windows enterprise computing environment. This blog provides step-by-step guidelines on…
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Query the Asset Information of Zebra Scanners via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Using a VBScript
March 17, 2022
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an industry standard from Microsoft for the management of hardware devices, including Zebra barcode scanners, in a Windows enterprise computing environment. You can write WMI scripts or applications to…
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