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Manual publishing of an app is time-consuming and involves a lot of repetitive steps that could be easily automated. Manual publishing involves these steps: Create a signed APK for your app.

Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sounds, and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you are a Commons user or need to get statistics for a particular user, then you can query the commonswiki DB to get the results.

There are a lot of developer and wiki guides to set up and get started with your first open source contribution. As a beginner, I always found these wikis a bit overwhelming as they suddenly introduce you to a lot of options and projects.

Today I learned that Javascript has a special syntax for working with promises in a more comfortable fashion. It’s the async and await which was originally introduced in C#. I am not an expert in Javascript but am quite excited to share the basics about async and await.

Frameworks such as Espresso and Mockito provide easy-to-use APIs that make writing tests for various scenarios easier. Let’s cover the fundamentals of testing and frameworks which developers can use to write unit tests.

I recently added Firebase Performance Plugin to one of my projects and experienced a drastic increase in the build time of the app. The app initially used to build in under 20 seconds and with the addition of this plugin, it started taking around 5–6 minutes for a single build.

The NFC Data Exchange Format ( NDEF) is a standardized data format that can be used to exchange information between any compatible NFC device and another NFC device or tag. The data format consists of NDEF Messages and NDEF Records.

In the first part of this article we got an introduction about various frameworks available to us for writing tests for an Android app. We also saw some best practices that could be followed to write more testable code.

In app development, a variety of use cases and interactions come up as one iterates the code. The app might need to fetch data from a server, interact with the device’s sensors, access local storage, or render complex user interfaces.

Wikimedia Commons features many images regularly on its main page. As described by Commons, Featured pictures are images from highly skilled photographers and illustrators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.