Android Studio 2.2 Released With New Features To Code Apps With Ease

 Google has released Android Studio 2.2 with lots of feature improvements and additions. This open source Android app development tool comes with new APK analyzer, Layout Editor, Layout Inspector and more for making app creation faster and smarter. A new Samples Browser has also been added to take help from the sample code from within Android Studio

Android Studio is an app development project that’s based on a bare version of IntelliJ, which is open source. Google added the Android flavor to IntelliJ and released Android Studio under Apache 2 open source license. Today, this IDE is used by millions of developers to build Android apps.

Back in May at Google’s I/O 2016 Developer Conference, the preview of Android Studio Version 2.2 was released. Now, Google has made this latest release available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users.

The version 2.2 release focuses on three themes — speed, smarts, and Android platform support. With the new Layout Editor, you can create an app user interface intuitive and faster. With the new APK analyzer, expanded code analysis, better Layout Inspector, etc, you can develop the apps smartly.

10 major features of Android Studio 2.2:

Android Studio 2.2 comes with more than 20 new features that are spread across every nook and corner of the app. Here are some of them:

• New Layout Editor with efficient tools to support ConstraintLayout
• New Assistant window to integrate Firebase services into app
• New Layout Inspector to examine the layout hierarchy while the app is running on emulator or device
• IDE codebase base updated from IntelliJ 15 to IntelliJ 2016.1
• Improvements in Instant Run
• New APK Analyser for package inspection
• New Espresso Test Recorder tool for creating customized UI tests
• Performance improvement with a new build cache
• New Samples Browser to look up sample code from within Android Studio
• New C/C++ integration with CMake and ndk-build

Being an open source project, anyone can grab Android Studio’s source code here.

If you are running an older version of Android Studio, you can check for the updates from the navigation menu. If you wish to install a fresh copy of Android studio, you can visit the official download page for grabbing Windows, OS X, and Linux installers.

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HP PCs - Finding the System Serial Number on Your Computer

Command Prompt (Windows)

Find your serial number by typing a command into Windows.

1. In Windows, search for and open CMD.EXE.
   A command windows opens.
2. At the command prompt type wmic bios get serialnumber, and then press Enter.
   The serial number displays.
   Figure : Command Prompt

   

Support Information on desktops

To see the support information on an HP desktop, hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys, and press the S key on the keyboard.

Figure : Desktop support information

System Information on notebooks

This section describes how to find the serial number from HP System Information.

 NOTE:

This feature requires that HP QuickLaunch or Hotkeys software is installed.

To open System Information, press the fn + esc keys from the notebook's built-in keyboard.

The serial number displays at the bottom of the window.

Figure : HP System Information

HP Support Assistant

Choose your operating system from the following options, and then follow the steps for that operating system to find the serial number using HP Support Assistant.

 NOTE:

If you do not have HP Support Assistant, go to the HP Support Assistant home page (in English) to download and install the latest version of HP Support Assistant. If your operating system is no longer supported, HP Support Assistant might only be available on certain computers.

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MIT Creates A Camera That Can Read Books Without Opening Them

One of the favorite hobbies in the earlier times was reading books. People indulged themselves in the world of fiction novels and other literature. That’s why the term bookworm became famous.
The reason why I’m telling you all this is the latest invention by MIT which is a serious bookworm. It’s a new camera that can read the text written on a page without actually seeing the page. The camera, when hung above a closed book can read all the pages.

The research was in progress at the Department of Media and Science of MIT Media Lab. Published in Nature Communications, the research aims the creation of a new imaging system that can detect text written inside a closed book. For now, the camera can only read the text till the first 9 pages. The researchers tested for a pile of papers having a single letter written on each page and the camera was able to identify the letters on the first nine pages.

The imaging system uses the high-frequency terahertz radiation to penetrate the pile of pages. We are familiar with how X-rays can penetrate through objects, a widely used application of medical science. Terahertz radiation–falls between microwaves and infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum–has some added advantages. It can be used to create frequency signatures of various chemicals because the absorption of different terahertz frequencies occurs at different degrees in the case of different chemicals. This helps the camera different between the paper and the written text (ink).

Image: MIT Media Lab

To sense the depth, the terahertz radiation proves to be more effective than the ultrasound waves normally used. Short bursts of terahertz radiation transmitted by the camera are captured by a receiver after reflection. The system also takes advantage of the concept of time resolution to identify individual pages of the book and measure distance between them.

A major problem in front of the researchers is to tackle the signal noise formed due to the terahertz radiation bouncing in other directions due to the imperfections of page surface. That’s the reason the terahertz imaging system is currently confined to detecting nine pages.

The terahertz imaging technology is a new entrant and a lot of work is due in this field. But it does present itself as a great choice for large digitization projects conducted by libraries across the world. They won’t have to turn every page of the touch-me-not bygone literature and take a snapshot. “The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this, because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don’t even want to touch,” says Barmak Heshmat, the co-author of the research paper.

Watch the terahertz radiation camera in the MIT Media Lab’s video:

— via MIT News

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