Since the trade war between China and US, lots of services are not allowed to be used on Huawei devices as a series of procedures enforced by US government to restrict China. These services include the Google Play services which are used for downloading Android apps on Android devices. This has brought big trouble to Huawei users as they are not able to download apps available for all other Android devices. Fortunately, there are ways for people to get Google services installed on Huawei devices with some more steps after getting a new Huawei device. In this post, we will show how to inst...

On 24th January, Nokia announces a disappointing news that they would give up Symbian. The 808 PureView released last year will be its last Symbian model. Symbian was born in 1998, it was supported by the then three mobile giants : Sony Ericson, Motorola and Nokia after its birth, later Samsung and LG also joined the Symbian camp. In 2000, the first Symbian model in the world Ericoson R380 was released, in 20006, there were over 100 million Symbian handphones on the market.But in 2007, the release of iPhone totally changed the mobile phone industry. The entry of Android sped up the steps ...

In Android, we can have drawings on a button, also we can put animated drawings on a button as well. Today we will show how to create an animated refresh button with an animated spinner on it.We need to create an animated drawing first. Here we name it as progress.xml and put it in the res/drawable folder:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:id="@+id/spin_refresh" android:oneshot="false">    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_refresh1" android:duration="4...

Huawei has released its own branded mobile OS Harmony OS sometime back and some Huawei device models now support installing or upgrading to use Harmony OS. Since this OS is Huawei's own OS and it doesn't come with Google Play by default which most of the current Android apps are hosted on. In this case, how can someone install the apps from Google Play on Huawei Harmony OS or use GMS services like Google Play, Google Maps?The solution provided by Huawei is to install GSpace which is an APP container where it can be thought as a virtual gallery store where apps from Google Play can be installed...

While in mentioning about Apple, everyone of us will think of the amazing products shipped out by Apple such as iPhone and iPad. We are all impressed by its smooth design and handy user experience. But as a outsider do you know the story behind the amazing design of Apple? Apple has a team of world class designers and they are leading the fashion of design. What's the life in Apple's design team?Ben Williamson from Apple shared one story of him which can give us some hints on what the life is like in Apple's design team. The life there is cool but it also put stringent requirement on the desig...

Android now is an extremely popular mobile OS on the planet. This small robot creates a big world. Many developers are also devoting themselves to Android development. For both novices and experts, you all need to keep your skills updated and know what's happening in Android community. So we recommend some websites which you should bookmark.NewsAndroid People : Very interesting and most updatedAndroid Weekly : Newsletters specially for Android developersAndroid and mePHAndroidBlogsAndroid Developer Official Website : To get the latest SDK update and support.Android Developer's Blog : A blog ab...

Sometimes you may encounter below issue while running docker-compose on MacOS.Traceback (most recent call last): File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module> File "compose/cli/main.py", line 71, in main File "compose/cli/main.py", line 127, in perform_command File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1085, in up File "compose/cli/main.py", line 1081, in up File "compose/project.py", line 527, in up File "compose/service.py", line 354, in ensure_image_exists File "compose/service.py", line 1222, in pull File "compose/progress_stream.py", line 102, in get_digest_from_pull File "compose/serv...

One of the most important parts of creating an effective and intuitive user interface on touch-enabled smartphones has nothing to do with visual appearance—instead, it has to do with creating an interface that properly responds to user input based on touch. For Web applications, this means replacing mouse events with touch events. In Dojo 1.7, new touch APIs help make this process easy.This is an updated version of the post Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone, published in 2008.In the beginning…Before we discuss the new features in Dojo 1.7 that make touch interfaces easier to cr...