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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 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 ...

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 [ 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:

STEP 1: INSTALLING THE NECESSARY TOOLS [VIDEO]

Tools you need to start cooking our Android Custom OS: Java JDK Cywign [Linux Terminal for Windown] Android Kitchen [Rom Development Tool] Demo META-INF [For making flashable Zip] Custom Booting.zip [For making custom Boot Animations] Notepad++ [For editing some files] Step by Step Procedure will be posted soon...

Released in September 2008, Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel. It was designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers, with variants for television, cars and wrist-wear. The operating system uses a virtual keyboard, as well as touch inputs that correspond to real-world actions, like swiping, tapping, pinching and reverse-pinching to manipulate on-screen objects. It also has been used in televisions, game consoles, digital cameras and other electronic devices. Android’s source code is released by Google under open source licenses. The operating system was initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and then bought in 2005. In June 2014, Google announced that there were over  1 billion active monthly Android users .

When creating native apps for Android, you will normally use the Java programming language for your logic. Whilst Java is a battle hardened language, it isn’t without its issues. When you run a Java application, the app is compiled into a set of instructions called bytcode and runs in a virtual machine. Over the past several years, a number of new programming languages have been introduced to also run on the Java virtual machine Whilst the resulting app looks the same for the virtual machine, the idea is the language features can help developers write simpler code and fix some of Javas issues. JetBrains, known for IntelliJ IDEA (Android Studio is based on IntelliJ), has introduced the Kotlin  language . Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the JVM. It can also be compiled to JavaScript source code. Kotlin has some amazingly cool features!

Android "O"  is the codename of an upcoming release of the  Android   mobile operating system . It was first released as an  alpha quality  developer preview on March 21, 2017. The second developer preview was released on May 17, 2017, and it is considered  beta quality . History On March 21, 2017, Google released the first developer preview of Android "O",  available for the  Nexus 5X ,  Nexus 6P ,  Nexus Player ,  Pixel C , and  Pixel smartphone  devices. [5]  Google will release a total of four developer previews; the second, now considered beta quality, was released May 17, 2017,  followed by further previews in June and July, A final, official release is scheduled for the third quarter of 2017. Features User experience Notifications can be snoozed, and batched into topic-based groups known as "channels".    Android "O" contains integrated support for picture...