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So I made Chilli Chicken!

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Alright, as a grown man, I should already have acquired a bit culinary skills, but sadly, that isn't the case. I am learning, bit by bit, and finally had the chance to try something, and thought lets me make Chilli Chicken! So I followed the recipe described here , and here are the things that gets newbies confused. (At least I was confused.) If you can, get the chicken cubes about a square inch each, smaller than that will be too small. Don't bother about the chilli powder, your dish will still look great. Garlic's volume will reduce once you start mincing it. 6 medium sized cloves of garlic will be enough for 500g of chicken. Don't worry about all purpose flour / Maida / corn flour. Use whatever you have. I had to use 3 tbsp of all purpose corn flour, and it was good. but don't add all of the flour at once, do it gradually as you mix, that way the marinate won't get too thick. When you fry the rest of the garlic paste and the chillies, make sure you

Bangalore Android Developers Meetup # 11 : Liveblog

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And the meetup comes to an end. App Demo India TV Guide India TV Guide is your one-stop app for listings of all the Indian TV Channels. Find the programmes and schedule info you want to watch. List your favourite channels. Set Alerts and yes, you can sync it with your google calender too. Long press on a programme to share it with your friends. Download it from  https://market.android.com/details?id=com.techjini.tvguide.android.activity Delivery Status by Mango Technologies Download it from  https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mango.packagetracker Zomato by Pramod Rao Zomato android app lets you search menus across 18,000 restaurants in India. Spanning 10 cities - Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad & Chandigarh - Zomato also lets you check ratings, reviews and pictures of all restaurants in your city. Zomato on your Android is location aware - it recommends you the best restaurants around

Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 10 : Live Event

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01:08 PM eduPort  by Synqroid App provides many video lectures from multiple sources. Click here for Market. 12:51 PM SnapTax  by Intuit. Used for filing tax in the US. Add a tax form, snap a photo of the W2, OCR it on the server. Review, pay and e-file. Click here for market. 12:37 PM Yummy Trains  by Pranav Yet another Crowdsourcing app that lists the famous food from each location and is available in the station. Its on market, click here . You can put suggestions. And you can search using train no to see the stations and the suggestions. 12:11 PM As expected, 10 min break ended after 20 mins. Raghavendra is ready to take us thru his app demo. Beware, he is gonna suck you all in with his wit. His App is called Power Cut ! His App is crowdsourcing to map where power cuts in India. He says its a social project to help out people. He got help from Varun. App can register powercut, show reports, show news about it. It can also do push alerts! More info is at 

Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 9 (Tabs!) : Live Event

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01:01PM We are almost at the end of the session, with people playing with the Xoom. 12:39PM Native Apps Though Native app support is evolving, its still not there, and to develop in Eclipse, you will need Sequoyah. However, things can work with a breeze if you happen to use the Motodev Studio. The Motodev Studio can be downloaded free of Cost from here . A demo of Motodev Studio is on. 12:20PM Testing Apps After some socializing, we are back to sessions, the testing side of the story. There preferred took is JUnit. Logcat, DDMS, TraceView are the Devs best friend. Strictmode API also helps build quality, as it catches the Disk and Network access in the UI thread, helping remove the ANRs. MonkeyRunner generates pseudo random events. Good for stress testing. Motodev Studio sports mem analyzer, App Validator, Integrated Emulator which improve the productivity even more. Its MonkeyRunner is more customizable too. 11:55AM Android 3.1, API Level 12 Resizable widgets

Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 8 : Live Event

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1:57PM And we come to an end of the BAUG meetup 8! App Demos Panorama of Locations : Crowdsourced http://goo.gl/1nKuY Coupon Meter App to do something with Sodexho coupons. Really cool one, shows you what denominations to use while in a counter. Locates where how much was spent. Tries to make cash transaction as 0. 12:47PM Google is one of the biggest commercial companies. Fully opensourcing Android will not be in full interests of Google. Comment from Audience "Opensource to me is modifying sourcecode as per my wish and not get sued." Comment from Audience "Google is taking the advantage of the word OPEN ". There is difference between in Open and Opensource. Open for users means, get app from anywhere and run it in your phone. Open for OEMs means modify the Source as you wish and don't bother about it. Google doesn't agree to bugs too. 12:31PM Panel Discussion on "Is Android Really Open?" Important discussion it must be! 5 P

TaazzaGo the app : Review

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  4 /5  Do you want your newspaper to put news around your locality in a separate section? Or may be a different version of paper for each locality? What would you do when you are in a new locality? Or temporarily want news from other locality, say around your work? How about getting some pretty good discounts for that Team-outing of yours and some tap on the shoulder from your boss? Or a dinner date in a uptown restaurant, which has discount just for you? All of these are possible, and ready to use on the fly, if you own an Android device and have TaazzaGo installed! TaazzaGO is an app that concentrates on Hyperlocal news i.e. News around you! It covers 40 cities in India, and Hundreds of localities in each city. Apart from hyperlocal news, it also gives you city news, Deals around you and weather. TaazzaGO is highly interactive. The first time you start the app, you get to set your location, which can be changed afterward as many times as required. Once set, you are taken to th

Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 6 : Live Event

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2:42 PM The presentations are over. Vote of thanks to ThoughtWorks, for the venue and the delicious food! 2:38 PM Neeraj talking about ODEX, and its implications. 2:30 PM Neeraj talking about mem management. (People talking about bad performance because of OEM modifications.) 2:24 PM Zygote preloads 2000 classes, which takes a lot of time. Package manager scans every package, validates certificates, permissions etc. 2:18 PM Bootup Sequence and Bootchart Bootchart is a system to show the activities during boot. 2:13 PM Neeraj will be talking about : Bootup sequence, Bootchart, Mem Config, ODEX 2:05 PM Android Performance by Neeraj Android is not an OS, rather an entire stack. Initially meant for smartphones, now it is used in tablets, media players, Cars, TVs etc Licensing wise, the Linux kernel is GPL licensed, and everything else is Apache Licensed. 1:54 PM The other solution meant intelligent copy paste. Qs from people include, how will a general