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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

How far away is the Moon?

We humans have a miserable sense of just how big space is, and I’ve spent a lot of time over the years working out ways to express it better. Most people don’t really grasp just how far away the Moon ... 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

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

In TLA nerd terms: the KSK is used to sign ZSK ... but that would be a lot of effort for absolutely no good reason. All the big internet infrastructure companies are well aware of the issue and have b... read more

Android Programming for Beginners

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

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

TV listings: Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Nov. 11 - 17, 2018

The Blue Angel (1930) TCM Fri. 3:30 a.m. Pulp Fiction (1994) Sundance Mon. 2:30 p.m. Rain Man (1988) Showtime Fri. 3:15 p.m. Toy Story 2 (1999) Freeform Sat. 4:50 p.m. Halloween II (1981) ★★ Sundance ... read more

A HUGE solar filament erupts into space

to be specific), where magnetic activity is easy to spot. The bright spot to the upper left is a sunspot, which are normally dark in optical light, but shine brightly in the UV. The filament, as the a... 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

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