Devlopment tales

Sublime Text is a great application for just about any developer to have in their toolbox. It's a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. It is basically a cross platform, highly customizable, advanced text editor and sits nicely between full featured IDEs (which are notoriously resource hungry) and command line editors such Vim or Emacs (which have steep learning curves). One of the things that makes Sublime so great is its extensible plugin architecture. This makes it easy for developers to extend Sublime’s core functionality with new features such as code completion, or the embedding of remote API documentation. Sublime Text doesn’t come with plugins enabled out of the box — they are typically installed through a 3rd party package manager simply called Package Control . To install Package Control in Sublime Text, please follow the installation guide on their website . ...

Google  I/O developer conference 2015 unveiled new version Android M. It looks very promising. As told, there are now over 4,000 apps for Android Wear and designers have created more than 1,500 watch faces.  There is deeper integration of Google Now into Android. So, Google Now cards will be able to appear everywhere in the phone, ready to be called up within apps or the Web via a feature Google calls "Now on Tap". Will get quick answers to quick ques. Eg: card on a movie/event while sending email.  With M, the app will download and install without presenting permissions required, but then ask for those permissions at the time it is first looking to take action. Android Studio Ide is the tool everyone should use for app development. On testing end, Google is adding a feature into its tools that lets developers run automated tests of their Android code against 20 popular devices at no charge. It builds on last year’s acquisition of Appurify. Android devel...