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Goodbye Google Station - A free high speed wifi internet service by Google at 400+ Indian railway stations.

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Let's go back to 2014 🛩️. Airtel used to charge more than 95 rupees per a GB of Data that we use over the mobile (4G speed was still a dream in India back then 😂). BSNL internet connection would cost around 500 rupees per month ( And most of the time, the connectivity used to be terrible). Internet usage among individuals in India used to be very less. Google, which was started 20 years ago with an objective to make the internet available and usable to all the people around the world, came up with an excellent idea of providing free high speed internet to people at 400 busiest railway stations in India. The project was named  " Google Station ". Slowly, Google along with its partner companies was able to scale this up to more than 400 railway stations in India in a span of 3 years ie., between September 2015 to July 2018. As it was accepted by the majority of the people, it had become one of the many successful projects by Google. It's been 5 years since the project

Async Task Made Easy and Simple

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Hello everyone, Its been so many days since I posted on my blog. Sorry for not being regular. Today, I promise that I will be regular and will post at least one tech article every week. To start with, Here is a video that I made for you to understand AsyncTask Clearly and in a simple way. To be honest, this video was recorded for the Udacity Mentorship application. Thought, it would be of great help for beginners. The material used in this video is linked down below the video. Thank you, Pavan Kumar Reddy Tadi, Senior Developer and Trainer. Link for slides used in this video Extra Reading

Android Icon Generator - Easy to Use and open source

Are you an app developer? Do you face a problem to generate splendid Icons for your app ? Are you trying out icon generators paying huge sum of your money ? Do you worry a lot that you should generate icons of all sizes to your app at standards specified in icon generator guide lines given by Google ? Here is a solution for you. Click this link to simplify your task of creating a beautiful icon for your app. This is an open source project hosted on github.com. Step 1 : select an image, clip art or write some text. Step 2 : select an option to trim or not trim. Step 3 : Select the percentage of padding required. And you can see the preview right away. Step 4 : you can choose a colour. Step 5 : You can choose crop or center for the scaling option. Step 6 : you can choose what ever the shape you require from among several common options integrated. Step 7 : you can choose a background Color for your icon. Step 8 : Apply an effect by choosing one

Best apps of 2018 on Google play store is here.

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Among the thousands of Apps, Google Play Store team has been announcing the awards to those apps which top the list since 2016. Several Apps, Games, Movies, TV shows, Songs and Books had topped this list in the past years. Now, Google has allowed it's users to vote up to their favorite app,games and movies under "Fan Favorite" category this year for the first time and announced the list as it is nearing the year end. These Awards really matters a lot to the Google Developer's Community as their hardships and efforts are rewarded. The announced list is as follows - Check out the winners list below to find out if your favorite app topped the list. The winners of the 2018 Google Play awards are : Fan Favorites of 2018 Game:  PUBG MOBILE    (Most of the people's Favorite Game these days) App:  YouTube TV Movie:  Avengers: Infinity War Best App of 2018 Drops: Learn 31 new languages Best Game of 2018 PUBG MOBILE Top five m

Investment in skills is the key to good fortune

It's always the best time for anybody to invest upon their skills.   Skills are the most important when it comes to earning a good fortune and continue doing that. Today's education is all about grades not Skill. This has to change gradually as the industry needs more skilled employees than employees with good grades in education. It's not too late to do your investment upon the skills. Here is an inspiring story of a prisoner turned coder, Jason Jones. He shares his story in his own words.Give it a reading. "Dear students, My name is Jason Jones and I am a software engineer; however, that wasn’t always the case. For the majority of my life, I was whatever stereotype that public opinion thought would fit: at-risk, system impacted, low-income; the list goes on. I’m 35 years old and recently released from prison after 13 years. I come from a broken home, where gangs became family and the streets became my household. In 2014, while incarcerated at San Quentin

Good bye to Google Allo, a smart messaging platform. - Google's offical news

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Google Allo is a smart messaging app that helps you say more and do more. Express yourself better with stickers, doodles, text and  huge emojis unlike other messaging platforms. Allo also brings you the Google Assistant. It has been serving billions of users both on Android and iPhone from past two and half years (initial launch on sept 21, 2016). Users are free to send high quality videos, images and big stickers to express themselves in the best way by using this app .It has got Google assistant incorporated by default and users can also make use of suggestions to give smart replies on finger tips. Now, it's both a good and bad news for its users across the globe. According to Google's official blog post it is announced that Google Allo will shutdown it's operations in March 2019 .  Matt Klainer,Vice President, Consumer Communications Products of Google has announced it officially stating that Google is going to invest it's time to bring out the same kind of fea

Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree First Project Experience

I took up this course on 18/05/2018 and was able to submit the first project for review on 18/05/2018, on the same day. The Course content and the way they teach the core concepts are pretty well organized. The review is also pin to pin. They were excellent to making the students learn the concepts. Thanks Udacity and Thanks to my mentor at Udacity. -PAVAN