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  • Android app dev: ShareActionProvider in Activity & Fragment

    I’ve been taking the Developing Android Apps course on Udacity, and yesterday I encountered a difficulty in solving the Quiz: Share Intent.

    One of the course’s goal is to build the Sunshine App – an Android app with weather forecast.

    In that quiz I had to implement ShareActionProvider on my DetailsFragment so that a share icon becomes available on my app’s ActionBar.

    One of the main difficulties was the error that stated ActionProvider cannot be cast into ShareActionProvider. And at some point there was also an error saying that the methods/classes I’m using require API 14, while my minimum supported API is 9. The Udacity course required that I set it to 9 so I couldn’t change that.

    Now, the sharing in my app is working file, and I will share how I did it via Gist. I actually ended up taking a peek at the code provided by Developing Android Apps course on Udacity because I didn’t want to waste any more time doing trial-and-error (I have another project to work on! lol), but I still had to edit their code for ShareActionProvider here and there to make it bug-free.

    And so, take a look at how my Sunshine app codes ended up:

  • CCNA V5 Curriculum Download – Portable Offline Study (Routing & Switching)

    CCNA V5 Curriculum Download – Portable Offline Study (Routing & Switching)

    An older blog post about CCNA Exploration 4.0 Curriculum was one of my most popular pages in this site. A guest requested that I share CCNA V5 Curriculum Download links here for Routing and Switching, and I decided to try to fulfill such request because I think this will help a lot of people who are studying to get certified by Cisco.

    These are portable offline curriculum files for CCNA Routing & Switching — there’s no need for installation I’m not sure yet if it’s the same but more updated version of CCNA Exploration or completely different.

    Extract the .rar files into your computer so that you can study for CCNA even when you are offline. You can also make the curriculum portable by extracting the contents into your USB flash drive and take your CCNA V5 curriculum with you anywhere.

    Please download these and check if they are what you need for your CCNA studies. Let me know what you think. 🙂 (more…)

  • GrabTaxi: I could never successfully book a taxi :(

    GrabTaxi: I could never successfully book a taxi 🙁

    grab taxi

    I always wanted to try the GrabTaxi app. Booking from them is expensive, but security is an important thing that they can give passengers so that’s okay. But my attempts have never been successful. I think it’s a combination of bad signalling from GrabTaxi and bad internet connection in my house.

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