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Advanced android room persistent storage

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Room provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. Because Room takes care of several concerns for you, e.g. caching, networking, Android highly recommend using Room instead of SQLite. If you are coming from iOS, the good news is that Room is very similar to the core data in iOS development. The task Field...

Tutorial: Multi-touch gesture for android

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Multi-touch gestures are very useful in many common scenarios, such as zooming, panning. For game development, handling multi-touch is essential. This post will give a quick guide for handling multi-touch points. Project structure We create a new project name MultiTouch with Java and add a new class named GameScene as a subclass of android.view.View. The basic GameScene class is as follows...

THE JOEL TEST quick note: 12 STEPS TO BETTER CODE

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Recently, I came across a company’s profile and found their Joel test. Basically, it is for a better quality of software team/company. So I decided to share it here in the simplified version. The great part about it is that it takes about 3-5 minutes compared to approx 6 years to understand SEMA. The Joel Test Joel test questions The neat thing about The Joel Test is that it’s easy to get a...

Predictor VS. Estimator quick note

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There is much confusion for beginners in machine learning. One of the frequently asked questions is the difference between predictor vs. estimator. Let get some note: Different usage “Prediction” and “estimation” indeed are sometimes used interchangeably in non-technical writing and they seem to function similarly, but there is a sharp distinction between them in the...

WHAT IS GIT REBASE?

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Rebasing is the process of moving or combining a sequence of commits to a new base commit. Rebasing is most useful and easily visualized in the context of a feature branching workflow. The visualized general process is as the following: From a content perspective, rebasing is changing the base of your branch from one commit to another making it appear as if you’d created your branch from a...

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