UI of an Android application is defined using the XML file.XML files are located in the res/layout folder of the project.XML file contains widgets or views arranged using layouts. View and ViewGroups are the classes which are used to develop the UI of an activity. ViewGroup doesn’t provide any UI on it’s own but is rather […]
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Lifecycle of WPF application
Application class is the most important class responsible for managing the application level functionality.The life cycle of WPF application is managed by the Application class. It manages functionality such as setting which window is currently active in the application,handling unhanded exceptions and defining resources to be shared across the application. A running WPF application consists […]
Azure tutorial
Cloud computing means that there are a set of resources available which includes the hardware and the software which are hosted by providers to consumers.Providers are the companies providing the cloud services such as infrastructure,storage,software applications such as databases,web servers,OS among others. Some of the companies providing cloud services are Amazon(AWS),Google(Google Cloud Platform) and Microsoft(Azure). […]
Dependency Property in WPF
Dependency property is just a normal CLR property with extra features added.Some of these features are related to: Animation Data binding Styles There could be a hierarchy of data sources for dependency property.The value of dependency property is calculated based on the data source with highest priority.For example animation data source has higher priority then […]
Intent in Android
Android application consists of a collection of components such as activities,services.Our application may need to communicate with the functionality provided by other android applications.In such scenarios we can use the Intent to invoke the desired functionality.For example intent can be used to start another activity or consume a service. Intent class is defined in the […]