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Industry News - Week of Nov. 5, 2018

Windows-Mobile Jive-Migrated
IN THIS ISSUE: IBM Acquires Red Hat; Windows S Client for Teams EOL; What Gorilla Glass Does Best; Google Boosts Account Security; Smart Glasses for the Deaf; Better Background Execution on Android    Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and…

Gradle support for EMDK Android 7.0

EMDK for Android 7.0 was recently released supporting a slew of new devices, enhancements to the Barcode API and adding support for Android Oreo alongside the existing Nougat and Marshmallow. Perhaps the biggest impact for developers in EMDK for Android…

Developing React Native Applications on Zebra Devices

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React Native is a cross platform mobile application development framework, it is an open source project promoted by Facebook and launched back in 2015 based on the React architecture and allows developers to create native-feeling applications in…

Keeping your Android application running when the device wants to sleep (Updated for Android Pie)

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Updated January 2020 to include detail about Android Pie. Since the introduction of doze mode in Android Marshmallow we have seen a number of enterprise use cases where customers want to ensure their application continues to run even though the…

DEVTALK - Democratizing the World of Machine Learning - Wednesday, Dec. 12th - 10 am CDT

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This introduction to Machine Learning will walk through the basics of Machine Learning and how it is being applied in Enterprise use cases today. We will dive into a sample application built for image recognition using TensorFlow to show how to get…

New Mobile Computer Software Releases & Features

Whilst Zebra’s new hardware releases, the TC52/57, TC72/77 and PS20 have rightfully been taking all the headlines recently, the Software organization has been busy adding some great new features and resources that I felt it was worth highlighting:…

Industry News - Week of Oct. 22, 2018

Windows Jive-Migrated
IN THIS ISSUE: Google To Unbundle, Sell Apps; More Win10 Problems; Shifting Android Landscape?; EU OKs GutHub Acquisition; Facebook War Room; A Call for Caution on Cryptos Google to Unbundle Apps, Offer Them for Sale in EU From the "careful what you…

Blog Series: XML Templates for ZC100/300 Card Printers

In this new post of the blog series, we will be moving to different topic of new development tools. We will learn how to work with XML templates in our new Print Station Card app developed in Android (source code available) for ZC100/300 card printers.…

Scanner Software Tools Update – Q3 2018

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Zebra has released updates to the barcode scanner software tools. You can now download this software from our support site. Links for this are noted below. 123Scan Version 5.00.0001 Key Feature - Added support (localization) for simplified Chinese…

Industry News - Week of Oct. 8, 2018

AndroidStudio Jive-Migrated
IN THIS ISSUE: Windows 10 Update Fails; Android Studio 3.2 Targets Pie; IEEE Calls it 'Wi-Fi 6'; Uber Fined $148m for Data Breach; TomTom's Free Maps API; The Disappearing Century-old Company; Windows 10 Update Fails Back up your files before…

StageNow v3.x Remote XML Hosting

Summary The procedure below will process an exported StageNow 3.x profile so that the XML is hosted on a remote FTP server. This has the following main advantages:        The profile size is reduced so that the user only…

What’s New for Android Oreo and the impact on Zebra developers

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This document details the developer impact of moving to Zebra devices running Android 8.x Oreo (API levels 26 & 27), and is follow-up to my previous posts about preparing for Android Marshmallow (API level 23) and preparing for Android Nougat (API…

Industry News - Week of Sep. 24, 2018

Security Android Jive-Migrated
IN THIS ISSUE: VSCode Manages GitHub Pull Requests; State of the Developer Nation; IBM Tools Check for Bias; Google's Rugged Recommendations; DHS Warning for Honeywell; Blockchain Myths Debunked VSCode Manages GitHub Pull Requests Microsoft has…

Zebra DEVPODCAST: How Do You Develop for Enterprise Deployment?

Speaking with Brett Cooper from BlueFletch and Brent Grandil from Arrowhead, our hosts Dan Quagliana and Mark Jolley, learn from these Zebra partners about app maintenance and continuous development when developing for the Enterprise. BlueFletch builds…

Blog Series: Android App to Print Double Sided Card With 3 Layers through TCP/USB

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A few weeks ago, we started this new blog series focused on the new development tools for ZC1/300. In this new blog, we added complexity to the use case presented in the previous blog, and we show how to optimize the usage of the new ribbons by adding…