Java SE 8 comes with a bundle of new features, and not many of them catch the attention of coders until they learn what they are and realize their usefulness. One such feature that can help you become a better Java coder is the ability to declare type annotations to … Read More

Java 8 comes with a lot more improvements and features than most people seem to realize. One such feature that can help you become a better Java coder is Default methods. To learn just how useful this feature is, lets take a very plain simple example: A Product Interface. Suppose … Read More

Java 8 comes with a lot more improvements and features than most people seem to realize. One such feature that can boost your productivity as a Java Programmer is Lambda expressions. To learn just how beneficial this oft less understood feature is, lets take a very simple example: A Product … Read More

Whilst barcode scanning is a pretty complex and non-trivial task in itself, it could be overwhelming sometimes with android programming. Lucky for us, there exists an opensource project called ZXing (pronounced Zebra-crossing) that solves this problem for us. The ZXing project has already done the heavy lifting by programming the … Read More