I took a break from Web and Mobile Development to learn a new skill: Share Trading. Yes, I got fascinated with share trading and how it can be used to build wealth so, I took a decision for sabbatical for 4 months. During these 4 months I studied various techniques for share trading and created […]

As you probably know from my website that I work on contract basis for different companies and individuals to develop software or create an IT strategy or IT infrastructure and in this post I will give you a detailed description as to what all I can do for you. If you are a startup: Many times non technical […]

I was trying to get the status bar to hide in one of the apps and created a simple code to do that. var application = require(‘application’).android; function statusBar(action){ var activity = application.startActivity; //activity.runOnUiThread(function(){ var win = activity.getWindow(); if(action === ‘hide’){ win.addFlags(android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); } else if(action === ‘show’){ win.clearFlags(android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); } } Then call statusBar(‘show’) or statusBar(‘hide’) […]

We need to lock or change the device orientation to see a video or play a game etc. You can do so in Android using NativeScript as follows: function lockOrientation(orientation) { var activity = application.startActivity; switch (orientation) { case ‘unlocked’: activity.setRequestedOrientation(android.content.pm.ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_UNSPECIFIED); break; case ‘portrait-primary’: activity.setRequestedOrientation(android.content.pm.ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); break; case ‘portrait-secondary’: activity.setRequestedOrientation(android.content.pm.ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_REVERSE_PORTRAIT); break; case ‘landscape-primary’: activity.setRequestedOrientation(android.content.pm.ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); break; case […]