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Installing Docker On Ubuntu
Having a docker runtime saves a lot of time for developers while they setup their personal pc. Once the docker runtime is available, services for database, cache, messaging can be just started in couple of seconds instead of reading though individual documentation & following a step-by-step guide. This post is about installing the docker on ubuntu:
Hosting Website From Your Own PC
I was working on hosting a public website that contained a bunch of kitchen sink apps from my personal pc. This setup helps me in accessing a working instance of the apps from anywhere. This blog is about what was required in order to point a domain to a pc running at home. Here is the general flow within an wifi enabled home (using pioneer/airtel/act etc):
Is The Caching Strategy Good Enough?
Recently, I was working on a computation problem that was based on dynamic programming. And of course, to store the sub-problem results, a cache was built to serve the purpose. Here is how the flow looked like after a cache was baked in:
Signing an Android APK
Why Sign the APK?
Android requires all Apk files to be signed with certificate of the owning body (developer or company) before it can be installed. Signing ensures that apk is generated by the person who claims to be the author of the game.
Build Android Apk for Construct 2 Games: Cordova
What this blog covers?
Once the game has been created using Construct 2, this blog outlines the steps involved in exporting the game and building the android apk using cordova tool. This blog doesn’t cover uploading the apk to google play console (that process is common across all android apk)
Experiment With Google Flutter
Why Flutter?
It claims to provide support for building native apps on Andriod and iOS (and possibly other platforms) from a single codebase. As a Mobile App Developer myself, I tried to workaround the problem of building apps from single codebase across platforms by using webview + js. Some of the primary downsides in this approach are: