Varun Barad - Curious Developer

I was listening to the podcast "Stuff You Should Know" and today I got across their minisode on "Foie Gras".

Necessary disclaimer: I am not a lawyer so please don't take my statements here on face value, do your own due diligence before pulling off any stunts.

To keep your Android phone screen from turning off when it is connected to your PC and you are using it to debug apps, enter the following command once in your terminal with the device connected. adb shell svc power stayon usb This sets flag inside the de…

Welcome folks, last time we wrote a lint check for making sure that all of our EditText have the android:inputType attribute.

Welcome devs, I recently faced an issue where if I didn't specify any android:inputType for EditText then keyboard capitalisation did not correctly show.

Welcome devs, have you tried your hands at extensions methods?

The above image represents something completely un-understandable to me during my college years.

I was recently setting up my computer with Ubuntu on it and this time I was decided that I would document every step of the process so that I can get it done faster the next time.

It is a common situation when we fork a project on Github and after some time we want to update our fork with the changes that have been integrated into the source project from where we forked.

I wanted to have a URL which I can give to someone and it would always take them to the latest post published on my blog.

Day 4 of JS30 challenge, today I worked with various methods on array (I knew most of them beforehand) but I learned two cool things today.

On my day 3 of JS30 challenge I got introduced primarily to CSS variables but also to many other things.

Today I am continuing my work on JS30 challenge and building a simple analog clock using CSS shapes and then animate it with CSS transforms timed using JS.

Wes Bos has created a course to get you confident in your JS skills in 30 days.

When using RxJava we need to specify the schedulers which we want to use to 1) perform the given task and 2) return result of the operation chain.

The default .gitignore file generated by Android Studio's "New Project" wizard keeps some local IDE configuration files in VCS tracking.

ADB is a treasure trove and I regularly keep finding some gem from it.

Recently when I started work on a new app for my company I noticed that all of my requests were being rejected before even reaching the server.

In the past 4 years of my life, many people who are just starting out in programming world have asked me some version of this question: Which programming language should I focus on learning?

Sometimes while working in Android we need to display the layout-bounds on device.

Last week I needed to take a backup of my laptop's contents because I needed to give it for repair.

A while ago I read a prank online.

Introduction The Apgar score is a method to quickly summarize the health of newborn children against infant mortality.

Anesthetics are used to relieve people of the feeling of pain.

As many pioneers and leaders in different fields have paraphrased: In any endeavor, it is important to know what are the top few things that need to be done right.

Who doesn’t want their users to leave ratings for their application on the Play Store?

Have you ever wanted to show different things to your user based on whether they are connected to the network or not?

Let’s say that you are building a nice app, one that connects to a third-party service.

Live in day tight compartments.