Author: Joel Kingsley
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Sending a Request to a Server from your Android app
Here is a tutorial on how to send HTTP requests from your Android app to a server using the Android Async Http client library
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Having Self-Direction (Schwartz Theory of Basic Values)
This post is going to be personal as I’ll be recording some of my real-world experiences. Not all might find this edifying. The reason I’m writing this post is that I find that writing out stuff helps me better organize thoughts in my mind. I read a book that talked about the different basic values…
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WHY Matters
For many years, I thought that WHAT you do is all that matters when it comes to living a life with purpose. But that cannot be further from the truth. Although at the end of the day WHAT you do is what people can see, WHY you do it is what inspires people, and in…
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Running in the Night
I type this in Google, and the first search result is a YouTube music video of a song named “Running in the Night”, that has really nothing to do with the running I’m talking about here. Clearly, actual ‘RUNNING in the night’ is not a hot topic that people are talking and searching about. As…
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How to extract Metadata of an Image in Android?
This is a small tutorial where I tell you how you can extract the metadata of an image using ExifInterface while developing a native Android app.
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Follow before you Lead
Most people in this world would love to stand in the foregrounds and be a leader, but many are not willing to submit and follow a leader first. In this decade where people are almost forced to believe that being a leader is the only way to a satisfied life, we need people to first…
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Be Ready to Lose Everything
Right from birth, to this day, we all have been through a lot of things in life. There are places we’ve seen, things we’ve used, people we’ve met, and experiences that we’ve gone through. All of us were born in different circumstances, therefore not everyone was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Different…
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Public Speaking for Introverts
Many introverts reading this would be jumping up and down after seeing the title(out of joy I mean). Public speaking is not something that is natural to everyone. Especially for people who spent most of their early years not that social, therefore not developing the people skills and getting over the fear of talking before…
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How to Deal with Depression?
Everyone faces depression at some point in their life. Some might have it because of their life’s circumstances, some might have it because of a recent heartbreak, and others might just have it as they are speculating the reason for their existence. In general, women are more prone to becoming depressed than men. This is…
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RecyclerView inside a NestedScrollView
It’s 3 AM right now. But still, I need to put this stuff into ink (figuratively speaking) when it is still fresh in my mind. For a long time, Android developers have had a tough time putting a ListView or a RecyclerView inside a ScrollView, cause it simply didn’t work. Developers had to manage to…
