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Industry News - Week of Oct. 17, 2022

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IN THIS ISSUE: Android to Support Passkeys; IBM Acquires Digital Engineering Consultancy; CSS Nesting Survey Results; What's Next for Web Tech?; Making a Good Mobile UX; App Contest Judge Shares Secrets   Android, Chrome to Support Password…

Enterprise Home Screen | Creating Settings Shortcuts

EnterpriseHomeScreen
Customers often require a subset of the Android system Settings to be available to their users. This can be time consuming to identify the required intent to launch specific settings and to create a method to do this e.g. via a custom application. This…

Industry News - Week of Oct. 3, 2022

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IN THIS ISSUE: Fighting Ransomware; Google Enhances TTS Voices; Top Programming Languages of 2022; Looping Videos Without Gifs; OpenAI Opens DALL-E to All; Intel's Autonomous Driving Effort   How to Fight Pervasive Ransomware  Now that…

Industry News - Week of Sep. 19, 2022

Zebra-News
IN THIS ISSUE: PCI to Boost Security; Adobe to Buy Figma; AMD vs. Intel Again; OpenWallet to Open Doors; Improve Conversions with A/B Testing; EvilProxy Bypasses MFA   PCI to Boost Data Security   The credit card industry moves slowly,…
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DevTalk | Mobile Computing | Introducing zDNA Cloud, Android 13 and More

Mobile-Computers
This is a preview of what's to come on our EMC DevTalk Community Day in December 6, 2022. Are you ready for Android 13 and what this means for enterprise developers? In this talk we'll provide a quick overview of this, touch on our new zDNA Cloud…

Industry News - Week of Sep. 5, 2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Sephora Fined for Selling Data; Block Cookies, Block Functions; Making Toggle Buttons Clear; Beware of Cryptominers Bearing Gifts; Chinese Hackers Publish Fake News Site; Meta Open-sources Data Management Engine     Sephora…

Developer Portal Maintenance

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The developer portal will experience a temporary outage on Sunday September 4th at 8am CST for roughly 60 mins due to planned maintenance. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at developer@zebra…

Industry News - Week of Aug. 22, 2022

Zebra-News
IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft Previews Dev Box; Don't Waste Money on Cybersecurity; Black Hat 2022 Recap; Forrester Research Warns About Web3; GitHub Bolsters Supply Chain Security; New Tool Identifies Injection Threats   Microsoft Previews Dev Box…

Zebra OS Upgrade/Downgrade with Gdrive Hosted Files

Mobile-Computers
Revised Feb 2023 to accommodate changes in Gdrive direct download link format   In this blog, learn how to create Google Drive links that can be used in a StageNow profile for OS upgrades/downgrades on a Zebra device. The main advantage of this…
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How to Use Google Drive Hosted Files with StageNow - updated for new Gdrive link format

Android
This blog details a method to convert a Google Drive link so that it can be used in a StageNow profile for downloading files to a Zebra device. The main advantage of this approach is that Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage which can be used to…
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Measuring Parcels with Zebra Dimensioning

Mobile-Computers
If your challenge is capturing accurate parcel dimensions as parcels move in and through your shipping workflows, your solution is Zebra Dimensioning - Certified Mobile Parcel and Mobile Parcel. Both are industry firsts — dimensioning solutions that are…

Industry News - Week of Aug. 8, 2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Facing Backlash, GitLab Reverses its Plan; Don't Treat Docs as an Afterthought; Docusaurus 2.0 Finally Arrives; Most orgs Struggle with App Modernization; Rust-based Malware Leaked; Tutorial: How to Build a Testable Front-end  …

DevTalk | Mobile Dimensioning API Walkthrough | Wed. Sept. 14 2022 | 10 am CDT

In this talk, join our Zebra experts where they will review our Mobile Dimensioning APIs, you'll learn earn how to develop applications using the Mobile Parcel Dimensioning API and they will outline best practices on API usage and error handling. Code…

Droidcon Berlin 2022 | Recap

Developer-Events Droidcon
Last month, we had the opportunity once again to sponsor and attend Droidcon Berlin 2022. It was my first time back in-person since the pandemic and it was certainly great to be back. We had a fantastic three days, meeting over 300 developers from all…

Use of Manage External Storage Permission on Zebra Devices

EMDK Mobile-Computers
Overview Since Android 10, all Android devices are now affected by the Scoped Storage restrictions. These restrictions were introduced to limit the App's interaction with the folders and files on the external storage of the device. There are different…
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Introducing Zebra’s IoT Connector at our RFID Community Day

RFID
Our upcoming Zebra DevTalks Community Day on August 24th, 2022, focusing on the latest tools and best practices for RFID application development, is a free online event open to all. You can attend one, some or all of the sessions throughout the day.…