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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)

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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…

Using TestDPC to Test and Demonstrate Zebra Enterprise Browser and Enterprise Keyboard Managed Configurations

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…

Industry News - Week of May 16, 2022

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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

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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…
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Zebra DevTalk | A Technical Deep Dive into Zebra's Enterprise Browser | Wed. May 18, 10 am CDT

EnterpriseBrowser
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…

Printing PDFs from Android on Link-OS Printers

Link-OS Printing
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…

Industry News - Week of Apr. 18, 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…