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The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to the Android Activity Lifecycle

... methods yourself.You override them in your activity subclasses, and Android calls them at the appropriate time. In this section, you are going to override lifecycle methods to eavesdrop on QuizAct... read more

How to Add a Splash Screen to a React Native App (iOS and Android)

We’ll do that in the componentDidMount lifecycle hook ... highly influenced by this excellent guide by Big Nerd Ranch. It explains the why behind what we’re doing. First create a background_splash.xml ... read more

Head First Android Development

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is an introductory Android book for programmers with Java experience. This book focuses on practical techniques for developing apps compatible with Androi... read more

Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia, and those who sacrifice for the stars

The big difference is, on the ground the pressure is Earth-normal: 15 psi. At this pressure, fire danger is much higher. A spark is what caused the fire. In the pure O 2, it swept rapidly through the ... read more

The Definition of a Dictionary

I suggest “a period of increased economic activity.” She politely ignores me ... But, at 2,100 pages, that book might indeed have been the last really big dictionary of the English language ever print... read more

Have phone, will travel to Silicon Valley's tech touchstones

Here's a tourist's guide to nerd nirvana ... people pose by Android lawn statues at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Fans of tech culture will find a variety of places to visit and take ... read more

Nintendo Has Sold 19.67 Million Switch Consoles To Date

Nintendo has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which covers the period from April through to June 2018. In the report, the company has given sales-to-da... read more

Android Programming: The Activity Lifecycle

The authors of Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition discuss the activity lifecycle, including logging the activity lifecycle, rotation, saving data across rotation, testing onSav... read more

9th Grader Arrested, Searched for Building a Clock

A 14-year-old in Dallas, Texas has been arrested for bringing a clock to his school. [Ahmed Mohamed] could be any one of us. He’s a tinkerer, pulling apart scrap appliances and building projects from ... read more

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

If you've got a big data processing problem that needs to scale, then Hadoop will probably help you out. In that case, you can read any one of the over nine thousand regurgitations of the same word co... read more

Learning Android Development as an iOS Dev

There are a few things that are similar at a high level. For example an iOS UIViewController is kinda like an Android Activity, except of course by default if you rotate your device an Android Activit... read more

New independent climate study confirms global warming is real

So what’s the big deal here? Anyone claiming that climate scientists are alarmists only trying to protect their grant money will have to think about that one for a while. You’re getting warmer So what ... read more