Category: Tools

A successful Git branching model

Enrico

In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for some of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management. Why git? For a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of Git compared to centralized…

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Android required permissions

Enrico

In Visual Studio 2015 if you checked same permissions on your project properties and when reopen it, your checks are disappeared, you have two ways: Is the manifest file marked as ‘read only’ in Windows Explorer? You have to select the Properties directory and un-tick ‘read only’ for the entire folder. Add manually in AndroidManifest.xml file same new rows: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <manifest xmlns:android=”https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=”15″ /> <application android:label=”$safename$”> <meta-data android:name=”com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY” android:value=”yourcode” /> </application> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” /> <uses-permission android:name=”com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION” /> <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION” /> <uses-permission…

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