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Gmail Login Input Field Style!

A few days back Gmail changed it’s login screen with a nice interactive input field with floating labels when the user focus to write. This looks awesome and reminds of many android native device form fields. The ionic framework also having options to create a similar type of form fields with floating labels on them.

In this post, I will create a form inspired by similar style form fields for email and password. Here I will use on basic CSS and a pinch of jQuery code. I have kept this simple without using any bootstrap class so that it can be easily plugged and customized as per requirement.

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How I resolved! “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

Today morning when I tried to open the Ionic Frameworks website, a strange message was showing up on screen

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

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Ionic 3 | Toast Not Hiding Issue using Toast Controller Workaround!

Ionic 3 provides Toast Controller using which we can have close enough toasts like native applications. Toasts prove very helpful in making user interfaces more friendly, we can alert users for small information like data processing, please wait, It’s Done! like messages.

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Chrome Update 70.XX – AngularJS ng-value not working properly

In one of our older application using AngularJS 1.5.8 version faced an issue today after getting latest update Chrome Browser to 70.x, In a place I used

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Ionic 3 | Resolve! Failed to install ‘cordova-plugin-admob-free’: Error: Variable(s) missing: ADMOB_APP_ID

Here we will discuss an issue faced during the platform build of Ionic 3 application, having an AdMob Free plugin. You can see that error below, this issue comes when we don’t add AdMob app id in an application using AdMob Free Ionic 3 native Plugin.

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Create Multiple Columns ListView from JSON Data using Retrofit2 in Android Example

In this example, we will create a sample application with single activity having a ListView with custom BaseAdapter to have multi columns with data from JSON object which we will get from dummy JSON file on the server. To make real server requests we will use Retrofit2.

This example app will discuss a challenge to parse JSON Object into ListView.

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Resolved! com.google.gson.internal.LinkedTreeMap cannot be cast to

This post is a quick hack to resolve this issue if any of you facing a similar issue. In the Android application, I am using retrofit2 and okhttp3 to communicate remove services written in PHP and sending JSON data. There is an activity in which I have to show server JSON response in a ListView, but I was facing a strange issue in mapping JSON data to listview BaseAdapter which looks as below

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What are Plus Code by Google?

Here in India people are facing so much trouble due to heavy rainfall and floods, due to a large area and heavy destruction by large volumes of water floods rescue operations are also facing trouble to reach internal locations for rescue operations. Today Google to help out people of Kerala gave a statement to help people stuck in internal flood ridden arear, Google told people to use Pulse Code to rescue operation helpline numbers, as there is also network problem no Internet no Wifi so that using that Pulse Code rescue people would reach out them to help.

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Where to find JDK keytool ?

Following is a quick tutorial on how and where to find JAVA key tool path and how to add in Environmental path variable required to create production release of Android.

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Generate Multipage PDF using Single Canvas of HTML Document using jsPDF

jsPDF is a nice library to convert HTML content into PDF. We can put the different type of elements in PDF from HTML like an icon, images, text, CSS styles.
Here we will discuss an example of jsPDF to convert long HTML page into PDF document which will be generated client-side and download.

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