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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.…

Industry News - Week of Jul. 25, 2022

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IN THIS ISSUE: Doing More with APIs; Microsoft Adds Lombok to Code; Bootstrap 5.2 Now Stable; Mentor, Don't Micromanage; Free Icons for SVG, Figma; SCM Shootout: GitHub vs. GitLab   APIs: Doing More than Simply Carrying Data The emergence of APIs…

Zebra DevTalks Community Day | RFID for Developers | August 24, 2022

RFID
DATE: August 24, 2022TIME: 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. CDT /  9 a.m. - 12 p.m EST / 6:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. UTC                                        …

Industry News - Week of Jul.11, 2022

IN THIS ISSUE: Which MVP is Just Right?; In-person Events in Trouble; June 2022 Global Tech Policy Bulletin; Lego to Try Virtual Building; A Guide to Toggling Dark Mode; Keeping Screens Alive with JavaScript   Four MVP Types: Which One is Right?…

Zebra's WS50 Wearable Computer | Text To Speech Demo Installer

Mobile-Computers
Overview The Zebra WS50 wearable computer (https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/wearable-computers/ws50.html ) runs Android AOSP and consequently does not have any speech input or output support by default. This TTS (Text to Speech)…

Scheduled Maintenance - 25/06 10AM CST (30 Mins)

Zebra-News
In order to conduct planned maintenance on our server the developer portal will be unavailable between 10:00AM - 10:30AM CST on 26th June 2022. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions or feedback, please email us directly at…

DevTalk | VisibilityIQ™ | New APIs for Application Health and Battery Health | Wednesday, July 20 10 am CDT

Seeking a new API to help you learn the health of your device fleet?  VisibilityIQ™ Foresight is introducing a new suite of reports under the Device Health umbrella.  We will be discussing the new APIs available as part of Application and…

Industry News - Week of Jun. 13, 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…

Industry News - Week of May 30, 2022

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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…

Enterprise Home Screen | Control Settings Available to the User

EnterpriseHomeScreen
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…

Getting Printer Alerts Using HTTP-POST Messages

PHP Printing
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…

Enterprise Home Screen | Add a Full Screen Link to a Chrome Webpage

EnterpriseHomeScreen
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…