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This post list the details of some of the important gerrit commands which we have tried, (This … Read more

In Android application, if you are doing some network operations like download from some external website or … Read more

Android’s `Build` and `Build.VERSION` APIs expose platform and firmware metadata, but those values serve different purposes. Use the numeric API level for compatibility checks, treat display strings as diagnostics, and avoid turning hardware fields into tracking identifiers.

As we have seen in our post, “How to develop first android Application/App in Android Studio” where … Read more

This Yocto QA failure is a packaging mismatch: `do_install` placed an artifact under `${D}`, but no output package claimed it. Trace the reported path, package it intentionally or remove it, then inspect the generated package rather than hiding the warning.

The `curl` command is not the libcurl development kit. Current Ubuntu builds normally need `libcurl4-openssl-dev`, which supplies headers and build metadata. Use pkg-config or CMake’s CURL target so transitive link flags and non-default installation paths remain correct.

The OpenSSL command and runtime library are not enough to compile C/C++ code. Ubuntu puts headers, unversioned linker files, and pkg-config metadata in `libssl-dev`. Install it for the correct architecture, then let pkg-config or CMake supply paths instead of hard-coding `/usr/include`.

Start ‘fdisk’. For me, the SD card reader/writer has the SD card show up on /dev/sdc. I … Read more

Electric Fence helps you detect two common programming bugs: software that overruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory … Read more