Google Developer Days – India 2017 (#GDDIndia)

Google Developer Days (GDD) are global events showcasing the latest developer products and platforms from Google. This year’s event was organized at the Bangalore International Exhibition Center, India. From what I hear, there were many registrations and I was one of the lucky few to get confirmed. This was by far the biggest Google event in India with over 100 Googlers.

Firebase cloud messaging in iOS

Cloud messaging or push notification is one of those “topics” that gets left out. Primarily because we are too busy beautifying the app, or working on a new feature, or we think it isn’t a big deal. Push notifications are as big a deal as any. Whether you want to re-engage your users, or deliver personalised content, or display targeted advertisements, push notification is the way to go.

Go ServerLess with Firebase cloud functions

With announcement of cloud functions beta at Google cloud next 2017 event, Google has added one of the highly requested features in the firebase suite. This is one major step from Google in making firebase serverless. In this post, we will see some of the capabilities, pros and cons, setup and deployment of firebase cloud functions. Google IO is just days away and knowing about firebase is surely going to help in understanding the upcoming firebase features.

Android product flavours and configuration

Product Flavours have been around for quite some time now. I feel Product flavours are one of the coolest things about android and android studio. I am so smitten by product flavour that I decided to write a post about it :p. What follows will be introduction, application, grouping, filtering and configuration of product flavours in android. If you have already applied these and have any questions, shoot in comments below or mail me directly (details at the end of the post).

Android local networking using NSD

In this post we will see how data can be transferred between two android devices in the same network. What follows is a bit of theory and implementation in android studio. There is a source code link at the bottom of the page for reference.