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Google launches Tez, a new digital payment app for India

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Google has jumped into the crowded and fiercely competitive digital payments space in India, and launched a new digital payments app – Tez. Tez, which means ‘fast’ in Hindi, is a UPI-based app that can be used for online transactions, as well as paying offline at stores. UPI (Unified Payments Interface) was launched by National Payments Corporation of India, an umbrella organization for all retail payment systems in India. While NPCI is a private entity, it is regulated by the country’s central bank – Reserve Bank of India. According to the company, all transactions on Tez are secured by ‘Tez Shield’ that detects fraud, prevents hacking, and verifies identity. The company has partnered with HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, and State Bank of India for the backend. Google already has several partners like RedBus, PVR Cinemas, Domino’s Pizza, DishTV, and Jet Airways which would accept payments via Tez along with payment gateways like BillDesk and ecommerce solutions like Sho...

Content Providers

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Content providers can help an application manage access to data stored by itself, stored by other apps, and provide a way to share data with other apps. They encapsulate the data, and provide mechanisms for defining data security. Content providers are the standard interface that connects data in one process with code running in another process. Implementing a content provider has many advantages. Most importantly you can configure a content provider to allow other applications to securely access and modify your app data as illustrated in figure. Figure 1.  Overview diagram of how content providers manage access to storage. Use content providers if you plan to share data. If you don’t plan to share data, you may still use them because they provide a nice abstraction, but you don’t have to. This abstraction allows you to make modifications to your application data storage implementation without affecting other existing applications that rely on access to your data. In this ...

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Google IO Extended 2017 Kano

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Hello reader, join me together with most awesome speaker [Ahmed Bature, Ibrahim Adam and...] at Google IO Extended 2017 Kano, next week for live presentation of my Ramadan Guide App for Android. Registration link below reserve your seat. Date: 8th July, 2017 Venue:  Ni'ima Guest Palace, Sulaiman Crescent, Nassarawa GRA, , Kano,  Kano Registration Link

Project N

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Project N [ Ramadan Guide App ] is an Open Source Project By Muhammad Aminu. Below you will the link to download the complete project. Ramadan Guide Features: Firebase Real-time database Splash Screen Cardview support Table layout System Requirement: Android Studio 2.3.2 or Higher. Internet Connection to download some dependencies. Computer with faster processor [Dual-core, core-i3, core-i5 or core-i7]. 4GB ram or higher. Screenshots:

Android Life

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Cooking Your Own Custom Android OS [Step by Step Guide with Videos]

STEP 1: INSTALLING THE NECESSARY TOOLS [VIDEO]