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They say - for everything, start with the why? Why? I have seen many Android devices with storage space running out; especially for older folks - they might even replace their smartphones with new ones since it might have become unusable due to the “your device is running out of storage space” issues. Most of the time, all they would have needed were to clean-up the storage consumed by WhatsApp. I have been searched for an application for the same but I couldn’t find any on the Play Store nor F-Droid that “actually worked”, mostly limited due to Android’s varying permission requirements for different android API levels....

I miss who I used to be when I wrote. yes, that’s the post. glad to meet you, feel free to connect with me on my socials below, thanks! :) I can end this post as such, but yeah, I have not been writing anything lately, let it be blogs, diary entries, journals, letters, whatever.. so, what happened? hmm, so what made me write prior? passion? love for writing? journaling? well, actually not....

Story of Volunteering to Publish Prav App on the Google Play Store Hmm, you might be thinking, What is there to write a blog post about publishing a simple app on the Play Store? Huh?! Well, the story of a long, boring and very frustrating ordeal follows. So, I was walking around with my friends on IndiaFOSS 2024 and stumbled upon Prav’s stall and the team. A native Android project immediately struck my attention....

DialogMusicPlayer is a simple and minimal music player dialog. It was built out of my frustration with my device’s stock music player requesting unnecessary permissions just to play a music file. The basic version was built within a day on a skeletal level. I thought of DMP as a simple project that would only be used by me on my device. I made the code open source & left it on GitHub....

Hii, glad to meet a fellow KTU student! Sooo, you log into etLab to check attendance for a class you have been skipping, to check the marks of the series tests, or to submit an assignment that you painstakingly copied from someone! :) There, you are redirected to the survey page, and you can’t do anything else in etLab without completing this freakin’ survey. We all know, how everyone fills out this form; “excellent”, “very good”, “appreciable” etc....

Sooo, you have a crucial deadline to meet, or you have an important assignment to complete. You turn on your PC, and, surprise, surprise, the PC decides to go into the BIOS menu! You try to force a restart, only to end up with the same result. Next, you start panicking & call “that-Linux-friend”. If you don’t have such a friend, don’t worry; I have got you covered with this blog!...

What are we up to here? So, you finally decide to work on that document you’ve been putting off for three months, or you want to work on that PPT that is due tomorrow! You grab your tools, open all the resources in 1500 Chrome tabs, and copy pasta everything onto your OverLeaf template. All is well for the first part or so, then you get a warning, and boom, suddenly OverLeaf says it won’t compile anymore!...

Binary to Decimal Conversion - Did You Know This? Hi! How do you convert a binary number to a decimal? Say, 1011001110010001: What I used to do looked like this: 1 * 2 ^ 0 + 0 * 2 ^ 1 + 0 * 2 ^ 2 + 0 * 2 ^ 3 + 1 * 2 ^ 4 + 0 * 2 ^ 5 + 0 * 2 ^ 6 + 1 * 2 ^ 7 + 1 * 2 ^ 8 + 1 * 2 ^ 9 + 0 * 2 ^ 10 + 0 * 2 ^ 11 + 1 * 2 ^ 12 + 1 * 2 ^ 13 + 0 * 2 ^ 14 + 1 * 2 ^ 15 Mostly it ends in me making some mistakes & I find myself starting over!...

Dramatic title, huh? Originally written to answer “What was your biggest failure?” for an application, I felt like I would share it here, too. :) In the initial release of one of my projects, DialogMusicPlayer there was a need to convert the path received to a new format (Uri to absolute path) to play the audio file because the MediaPlayer class needed the path to play the file. But, due to the increasing limitations Android is enforcing on newer devices and different manufacturers & platforms returning using different formats, it was difficult to do this conversion....