AngularJS $apply, $digest, and $evalAsync

The differences between AngularJS $apply, $digest, and $evalAsync

Have you ever wondered about the differences between $apply(), $digest(), and $evalAsync()? In this blog post we’ll explore these three functions.

Under the hood of AngularJS, there are a lot of evaluation processes that make Angular the awesome framework it is. AngularJS makes the frontend development process much easier and more effective. With the ability to create HTML tags with a special behavior (directives), and to create independent modules, AngularJS is indeed one of the best SPA’s out there.
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Determine your Android device’s internet connection status

An internet connection can do wonders to virtually any mobile application in terms of functionality, content, personalization, and many more. You can easily set up a user registration system to create a personalized UX, allow users to sync app data across their devices, or even allow users to interact with each other.
The list of possibilities is pretty much endless, and in this day in age, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that if someone owns a mobile device – that device is probably somehow connected to the internet.
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Implement a REST client in an iOS application using RestKit

RestKit is the ideal iOS framework for REST server-client communication in iOS mobile applications. It’s written in Objective-C, built on top of the very popular AFNetworking framework, and contains a very powerful object mapping engine to make our lives easier when sending or receiving objects to or from a server. The setup process might look scary and complex at first, but once you have the basic setup, things should run smoothly and you will enjoy a very simple and efficient REST client in your app. In this blog post, I will guide you through the basic setup process of the RestKit framework, give you a grasp about the object mapping functionality, and demonstrate a few REST API calls.
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Kaltura KMC localization how to

The Kaltura KMC – Kaltura Management Console is the part of the Kaltura system that allows for content management.

In this blog post I will describe how to add support for your (or your customers) language to the Kaltura KMC.

The Kaltura supports localization natively.

The following languages are currently supported in the upstream version:
en_US
ja_JP
de_DE
es_ES
fr_FR

Korean translation is being worked on for one of our customers, right now we do not have a full translation available, if you require it contact us.

Localization of the Kaltura KMC starts with translation of the strings used by the KMC.
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Integrating Piwik in iOS mobile applications

The Piwik platform is a free, powerful and open source tracking and analytics tool. It integrates well with most popular platforms, and is fairly easy to use. There are virtually no limitations or setbacks to using it, except perhaps the capabilities of the machine that it runs on. You can use it to track and calculate traffic, revenue, and many other things on your website. But why stop there? Why not use this powerful tool inside your mobile application? In this guide, I will show you how you can easily install a Piwik platform on your own server machine, and integrate a tracker in your iOS mobile application.
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Making your video mobile application viral

We have recently noticed that more and more of our clients require video mobile applications that integrate well with their backend and product, just as their web applications do. From the experience we have acquired during the last few successful projects we took part in – I have decided to present, from a mobile developer’s point of view, a few of the things that are probably worth considering during your mobile application planning.

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Implementing a Zeroconf service for your home automation Android app

The concept of Home Automation has been around for years. From sprinkler systems that run on their own schedule to lights and windows operated by voice commands, people have always been inventing ways to make our lives easier and our home more “automatic”. Now that smartphones are serving us in countless ways, it’s obvious that they will eventually take part in helping us control our homes as well.
Zeroconf is a set of technologies dedicated to easily creating TCP/IP networks from interconnected devices, without having to call your computer genius brother-in-law to help you set it up.
I am going to show you how you can use your Android device to discover and gather data from services and devices within your home network, by implementing a Zeroconf service with no more than a few lines of code. From there, the things you can do will be limited only by your imagination…

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How to Build and run the Flash portion of Kaltura KMC

Kaltura has a management console called KMC to manage content under a given publisher.
It contains a significant portion written in Flash and in order to make changes or debug issues with it, compilation is needed.
I have compiled it in order to add Korean localization support, required by one of our customers.

This has been done using Flash Builder 4.7 on Mac OS X.

Now we will start the Kaltura KMC build itself

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