Category Archives: Apps
How to create Google Chrome App using JSON
Google Chrome is no 1 browser in the world and today I am going to show you how to create Google chrome app using JSON an upload chrome store. I am creating this app using JSON and its very easy to create you can create it in minutes. To create chrome app you need a text editor like notepad or word pad and Google chrome browser.
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How to Create Custom Application for Facebook Pages
Fan pages on Facebook is very useful for business and brands to reach many people on social networks. On Facebook there is very few applications like Photos, Videos and Events, if you want to add more application like contact us and welcome page and as many as you can. This tutorial will explain you how to add application step by step.
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Social media logins with PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a tool that can help you make hybrid applications for different devices such as Android and iOS using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. However, there are a few differences when compared to normal websites and native apps. You would have to use plugins to do tasks that traditional websites do with ease – for example, to upload a file you would have to use the File Transfer plugin and use a different API than adding inputs with a type attribute set to file.
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Creating a simple Slack chat bot with PHP
To create the bot, we are going to use Slack’s Outgoing Webhooks integration. With it, we can create any page and whenever a message is sent into a specific Slack channel or in any Slack channel your page will be called with information about the sender of the message, the message itself and other useful metadata. When a request is made to your page, you can return JSON with the property text in it and the bot will send back a response directly in the channel in which the message occurred.
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Making the most of the Google Maps API – Marking a path to a location
Our app takes advantage of a JSON file containing the different bus lines and arrays of geographic points, the combination of which forms the route of the busses. A part of the array with coordinate points looks like this:
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Making the most of the Google Maps API – Keeping the user on the map
Now that we have our map added to the webpage, centered on our desired location, and it takes the entire screen real estate we may want to customize it. Let us say that the application revolves around a particular city. We may want to show where the user is located in that city. For this purpose, we will just add a marker representing the user on the map. We will get the user’s location using HTML5’s Geolocation API and we will refresh his/her location on regular intervals so that his/her location stays updated. When refreshing, we may want to remove the old marker because the user may already be in a different location and we do not want thousands of markers appearing as the user moves around the map.
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Making the most of the Google Maps API – Adding a map
The Google Maps API allows us to embed maps of arbitrary continents, countries, regions, cities and spots. It not only allows us to do this but it enables us to customize the returned maps and personalize them with our own functionality. Let us build a web app which uses the Google Maps API to not only show a map of a city but adds quite a few markers to it, lines and popups which show additional content when a marker is clicked.
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