Android Content Providers

The database in an Android application is available only to the application which created it. In normal scenarios, applications need to share data quiet frequently. There is a concept of content provider  in Android which can be used to share data between different applications. The content provider is a type of data store which has [...]

Performace Testing made easy using Badboy and JMeter

When it comes to performance testing and especially using open source tools such as JMeter, it is often observed that testers(especially from black box background) have a hard time. For simple scenarios such as analyzing performance of different pages in a website wherein the pages can be directly accessed through URL directly, writing JMeter scripts [...]

Scrolling text in JavaFx

If you want to have Marquee effect i.e automatic scrolling of text from left to right or down to up in JavaFx, you need to write a custom component of your own. Using a Marquee tag of HTML doesn’t work, if you try to use directly in a label text or a swing component in [...]

Database implementation in Android

Android uses SQLLite, which is an open source SQL database system for storing persistent data. The database that you create for an application is only accessible to itself, others applications won’t be able to access it. Android provides API’s to interact with the database which are quite easy to use. The performance of the database [...]

Content and Metadata Extraction with Apache Tika

Often we  have the requirement of reading different types of files e.g. CSV, PDF, XLS files and there can be  many more types need to be read in an application. One way, we try to implement such a requirement is by using separate readers for all of them and  may use different frameworks for analyzing [...]