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Zebra DevTalk | Computer Vision Made Easy | Wednesday 17th November | 10am CDT

Learn from Zebra's Adaptive Vision team about how easy it is to create vision applications in Adaptive Vision Studio - the most powerful graphical, workflow-based environment, suited both for newbies and experienced computer vision ninjas. Presenter:…

Industry News - Week of Oct. 18, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Travis CI Security Flaw Fixed; Diversity Up in API Usage; Integrate Auth0 in Android Apps; Firebase Competitor Gets $10M Funding; DOM Injection Safety Tool; Chrome Keeps Pace with RenderingNG Travis CI Security Flaw Fixed There's good…

Industry News - Oct. 4, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Epic Battle a Mixed Result; Apple Judgement Has Gaps; Google Fined $177M in Antitrust Case; Indie Software Maker Claims Apple Stole its IP; Android Studio Basics; Don't Waste Time on Doomed Tech   Eric Prevails Over Apple, But…

Industry News - Sep. 20, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: South Korea Bans App-Store In-app Sales; How Much Should the App-store Get?; Android Support Not in Win11; Write a 'RUSTy' Android Emulator; Chrome's Quote Card Simplifies Sharing; Kotlin Memory Manager Crosses Platforms   South…

Scoped Storage with Enterprise Applications

In Android 10, Google introduced Scoped Storage as a security enhancement, severely limiting an application’s ability to access world readable / writeable file locations.  Application file storage is now sandboxed with only a few documented…

Join us at Zebra DevCon | 3-5 November, 2021 | Online Free Event

                                     INSIGHTS INTO ZEBRA'S STRATEGY AND LATEST PRODUCTS The landscape may have changed but the desire to learn from…

Industry News - Sep. 6, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: New DevTools in Chrome 94; How to Build a Stepper Component; Understanding the AVIF Image Format; Betting on the Android Dream; Using Xamarin to Extend Battery Life; Google Dodges $8.8 B Oracle Payout   New DevTools in Chrome 94 The…

Industry News - Aug. 23, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Android 12: A Detailed Look; Wear OS Allows Dev-specific Tiles; Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3; Breaking the Web Forward; What the Heck is a 'Metaverse?'; Mobile-first vs. Desktop-first Dev   Android 12: A Detailed First Look (video)…

Third (and last!) Revised method for deploying StageNow profiles to a remote FTP server

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(This is a repost of a blog originally created in 2019 which was lost in the recent Developer Portal upgrade) StageNow 3.x Remote XML Hosting v3   Ian Hatton Zebra EMEA Aug21 The procedure below describes an unofficial method (use at your own risk)…

Industry News - Aug. 9, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Say Good-bye to Gingerbread; Hey Android, Where's My Process?; Jetpack Compose Reaches 1.0; Stack Overflow 2021 Survey; Make Scrolling Obvious; Common Pitfalls of Home-page Design Google Calls it Quits on Early Desserts Google next month…

Using PrintConnect with Apps Built with Android 11 or Higher

Printing Android Link-OS
PrintConnect has been widely utilized on Android devices to simplify the printer discovery and pairing process for apps that need to print labels or receipts on Zebra Link-OS printers. With PrintConnect, apps simply pass the variable data for the label…

Industry News - Jul. 26, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft Sunsets Xamarin Community Toolkit; Android Language Options; 50+ Free Tools; A UI Mistake Costing $8 Million; Solving the 100vh Problem; The Hobson's Choice of Browsers; The Perfect Play-store Screenshot   Microsoft Shows…

Link-OS SDK for iOS – Printer Network Discovery API impacted by iOS 14.5 and higher

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Apple has added additional privacy protection around the local network access in its iOS 14 updates. Among them, it is the multicast networking entitlement. Starting from iOS 14, the multicast networking entitlement is required in order for an iOS app to…

Application Best Practices for Managing Device Power

This article is aimed both at application developers and engineers troubleshooting the power management on Android devices. Since Android Marshmallow, there have been significant improvements in the Android platform to increase the battery life of…

Zebra DevTalk | Updates HD4000 SDK V.2 | August 2021

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Industry News - Jul. 12, 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE: Android Studio 4.2.2 Stable; Run Android Apps on Windows 11; Moving Away from the APK; Android Apps From an Amazon Windows Store; A Deep Dive into AirBNB's Server-driven UI; What's Coming in Android 12     Android Studio 4.…