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By : Developers of  VIT Slate 1. Libraries: Well, the whole developer community will agree that without libraries our life would have been hell. But when it comes to using them, you have to customize the functionalities which the library gives you. I agree that the documentation with which a library comes is good. Still, using them will be an effort saving another effort. While developing VIT Slate, the greatest library that I came across is CardsLibrary [verify the name] by Gabriel. It was easy to customize but there were some libraries which literally gave me real pain !!! 2. Hardcoding: We just don’t hard code! Android comes in all shapes and sizes and that’s the reason never hard code any dimension for a UI element. I hard coded an image’s dimensions in VIT Slate and someone came and asked me why is this pic in team section so small. And I was saying to him, “Can you please move, I want to hit my head against the wall because I hard coded.”  3....

Extract songs permanently in saavn android app(for non root user)  Bad engineering that leads to loss for saavn, the famous music streaming application on android smartphones. I write this by assuming that saavn only allows you to download in offline mode within application and you lose the songs if you happen to lose the pro membership. Without pro membership, you can only stream the songs but not save them in offline mode, means every time you must use your valuable data. Whereas, by storing on sd card the songs will be permanently available to you even if you uninstall app or you happen to lose the pro membership which allows you to save songs in offline mode within saavn’s android application. Now I exploit this bad engineering from saavn’s engineers and tell you how can you extract songs from saavn’s offline mode to your sd card. Note that this will violate the usage policy(I assume) and you should not do this on android smartphones. I only provide this to...

To all my friends who have just started coding... here is a small but useful list of tips for you to become an expert. For every new thing we start, a proper guidance is needed to prepare the fundamentals, so that we keep moving on the right track. Same goes for Programming.