Category: programming

Hiring software development team in Ukraine: step-by-step guide & major benefits

Karan S

When it comes to hiring software developers, most companies prefer to stick close to home. But instead of hiring a development team in Canada or the US, why not look at hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine instead? Despite the recent conflict, there are many benefits to hiring your development team in Ukraine, including accessing a diverse skill set at a lower cost. Let’s dive into the details. Hiring an offshore development team in Ukraine: What does it involve? Ukraine has been on the map for all the wrong…

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How to Create a Competitive and Truly Valuable Workout App in 2022

Karan S

Fitness and workout applications are becoming increasingly popular. Many people now prefer to use workout apps for their fitness routines than go to the gym. Because of this, there are numerous workout apps online with generic features. Therefore, to create a fitness app, you must ensure it’s competitive. And you can only do this by making your workout app unique for others. This article will explain simple steps on how to create a workout app that works and standout (based on Topflight Apps experience). How to Create a Fitness App…

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The Best Laptops for Video Editing in 2022: Which One is Right for You?

Karan S

Why Should You Care About a Good Laptop for Video Editing? Video editing requires a lot of processing power and storage space. It is not something that you can do on a tablet or a phone. You need to have an excellent laptop for video editing if you want to get the best results. But what does it mean to have a good laptop for video editing? We will look at all the factors that make up an excellent laptop for video editing and give you some of the best…

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Top 3 reasons Why You Should Outsource App Development

Karan S

It seems like everyone has a mobile app these days. Anyone that has what they term a great idea for an app, seems to be making one. Part of the reason for the explosion of new apps, and we’re talking about both Apple and Android, is the ease with which you can do it yourself. DIY app making is becoming more common place, and an industry of app making platforms has sprung up around this concept. It’s not so dissimilar to the advent of DIY site builders, which turned ordinary…

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The 5 Most Secure Programming Languages

Karan S

For developers, all programming languages have their positives and negatives. Many programmers only work with the languages they are most familiar with. The choice of which one to use also comes down to a few factors; market demand, interest, or intent. Game developers will spring for Lua or C++. Web developers will be looking at PHP and JavaScript. But what might be overlooked by developers is another crucial element of computer programming - security. The security that a programming language can provide is usually considered after it has already been…

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Unlock Bootloader - OnePlus 5

Karan S

A Bootloader is a little bit of code that tells your phone’s OS how to boot up. OEMs do this work to ensure that your phone is fully optimized, certified and tested on the version of Android which comes along with the phone. Unlocking your OnePlus 5 will open up a spectrum of possibilities on your phone. Unlocking your phone and installing unrecognized software may cause the phone to stop working completely and turn it into a Brick. Unlocking can disable important features and functionality, and even make the device…

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Web Apps Vs Native Apps - Winner Hybrid Apps

Karan S

You have an idea for an app which you wish to develop yourself or get it done through a developer. Or probably you already have a popular website and the number of visitors accessing through mobile device is going through the roof and in a bid to captivate your mobile user traffic you wish to expand onto an app. Thereby giving you some real estate on their mobiles or tablets. Whatever the case may be, Apps are no cliché. Today or tomorrow you have to go the App way or…

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Backport: Use Lambda Expressions on Java 7, 6, 5, 4

Tarandeep Singh

Lambda expressions are one of the most attractive features of Java 8 release. Lambda expressions improve the Platform’s syntax and code redundancy by large. What are Lambda Expressions? Java 8 introduces Lambda Expressions, part of the Project Lambda Initiative. The lambda expression is made of two parts the one on the left of the arrow symbol (->) listing its parameters and the one on the right containing its body. In this case the compiler automatically figures out that the lambda expression has the same signature of the only non implemented…

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[1000+] Huge List of Open Source Android apps on Play Store

Tarandeep Singh

Programming and developing good applications is always a challenge. The competition is huge, variety is huge, and developers continuously innovate to bring out best with new programming methodologies. In fast changing Android applications, you’ve to be competitive by adopting the best methodologies may it be the way you cache bitmaps [WeakReference], new ways of optimal listViews, CusrorLoaders, etc. You must catchup with Fast changing API and Android SDK and be on the edge. We often do that by experimenting with whats available in API documentation and then hop ver StackOverflow for solutions.…

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HowTo: Develop Your First Google Glass App [Glassware]

Tarandeep Singh

Google has raised curtains off it’s Glass revealing detailed Tech Specs. Along with the specs came the much awaited Mirror API - The API for Glass apps. So you had that killer app idea for Google Glass? Now its time for you to put those ideas into code! What’s Inside Google Glass Google Glass runs custom Android OS (based on rumors) abstracted from developers and users with a new Navigation friendly hands-free card interface. The device essentially has specs of a low-end smartphone: 16GB storage (12GB usable), 5MP camera, 720p…

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Run Python apps, Scripts on Android

Tarandeep Singh

If you’re a python developer and lazy enough to not learn Java for Android app development, we got a number of solutions for you. You may not be lazy, but you want to run your existing Python scripts on Android, this guide will help you get there. We love Python as much as Java, so we decided to compile all possible ways to Run Python on Android and even iOS. Lets look at a number of solutions that would help you run Python on Android. Method 1: Kivy Kivy is…

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Develop Android, iOS iPhone, WP8 apps using Java [Windows]

Tarandeep Singh

Codename one allows you to write true native apps for all major mobile device OS. Codename one is much better than current alternative tools like PhoneGapp. The apps built using Java code which runs on Dalvik VM in android, Native C code on iOS, resulting in 3x time performance boost in iPhone / iPad applications compared to native Objective C code. yes 3 times faster! Codename One is Free and built by Open Source community. This framework provides you with: Full Android environment with super fast android simulator A iPhone/iPad…

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Drip: Fastest JVM launcher [Java, Scala, Clojure, JRuby]

Tarandeep Singh

If you’re a Java developer of Java application user, you are not new to the fact that startup time for Java application is huge, of the order of milliseconds to seconds. Drip, an open source effort, is one step forward from other solutions that help accelerate JVM startup times. Drip, is very different when compared to other fast JVM startup solutions. What is Drip? Drip is a launcher for the Java Virtual Machine that provides much faster startup times than the java command. The drip script is intended to be a drop-in…

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HP WebOS 1.0 Open Sourced

Tarandeep Singh

When a product fails to meet expectations, what do we do with it? Pundits would tell you to Open source the software / hardware technology and let the contributors from around the globe innovate it. Well, HP has opened up, as promised. They have Open Sourced WebOS 1.0 Beta to the community under proper Open source license. According to HP, It has taken a lot of hard work, long hours and weekend sacrifices by our engineering team to deliver on our promise and we have accomplished this goal. The Beta…

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Collaborative IDE Collide Open Sourced [Google Wave]

Tarandeep Singh

Collide, an free Collaborative IDE is Open Sourced by Google. Remember Google Wave? One may recall it being shut down by Google but truth be told, it has lived hiding underneath various Google products. For example, Google+ Hangouts at its early stage was using the Wave protocol for its YouTube gadget, and now it is being used for code collaboration. Collide is a free (and now Open Source) IDE that synchronizes your code on the physical disk. You can encourage your fellow programmers to collaboratively develop Application sin Java and various programming…

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