How to Get Rid of that Pesky “Not Secure” Tag on Your Web Application

Recently, I was tasked with securing an app I am working on with an SSL certificate purchased from GoDaddy. I found several tutorials explaining how to install the certificate on my Spring Server, and the solutions were seemingly very simple. All I had to do was use keytool or a similar utility to generate a keystore […]

Persisting User Input in Android (> 5.0)

This tutorial discusses how to create an Android application that persists data to Android storage.  We will use a SQLite database and a DB Helper to do this. CursorWrapper will also be used to save each textField on change.  We will build a to-do app by taking the following steps: Create the ToDo Object Create the app fragments […]

Using RecyclerView and CardView in Your Android App

Source: https://github.com/neelkrishna/recyclerViewDemo Upon the Release of Android 5.0 in 2014, ListFragment was deprecated, and while it can still be used in development of Android apps, it is a pain to work with. Google decided to replace ListFragment with a more robust, if harder to implement, Widget called RecyclerView. The widget sits directly within a Layout Container […]

Understanding Groovy Collection Methods

If you learned Groovy with a working knowledge of Java, you probably found the transition to be a piece of cake.  I know I, personally, started coding right away and didn’t even realize when I was neglecting “the Groovy way.” The most common series of instances in which a Groovy solution eluded me pertained to […]