Author Archives: Vykthur

About Vykthur

Mobile and Web App Developer and Researcher. Passionate about learning, teaching, and recently - writing.

Socket Programming : How to Integrate Socket.io java Client in your Android App without Maven

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Vykthur

I needed to implement Websockets between my android app and a web application to efficiently stream real-time text data (values that change over 10 times per second .. or more). Normally, most applications connect to a server using http calls … Continue reading →

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How to Connect Android App with a Local Web Sever [Localhost] using Tethering/Portable Hotspot

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Vykthur

When developing and testing apps that make calls to a web server (e.g mysql data storage ), you’ll likely need a  connection between your android device and a web server running on your PC.  Existing approaches have tried to explore … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Streaming Data from a Microsoft Band to Your Android App

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Vykthur

  This post covers the steps needed to start streaming data from a Microsoft Band to your android app. There are numerous applications for this – including using this data as an input source as well as building nice use … Continue reading →

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Samsung to Release a New Gear Device – Right About Time!!

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Vykthur

Image : Samsung Developers Two likely things – a circular watch interface, and more sensors. Today I got an email from Samsung hinting at an all new innovative gear device they are about to release. I was invited to join … Continue reading →

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Research Internship – So It Begins.

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Vykthur

This post summarizes my early thoughts regarding my upcoming internship, what preparations have been like and what goals I have in mind. Preparations This has meant multiple things for me. It has meant going through the paper work at my … Continue reading →

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How do I make my app successful ?

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Vykthur

Short Answer : You localize it and you use more permissions (wisely of course). As the number of apps within platform ecosystems  such as Google Play, iTunes, Windows app store begin to cross the million apps mark, there’s a question … Continue reading →

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IBM Research Internship – Application Process

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Vykthur

For research students in the area of computer science, computational social sciences and just plain social sciences, a research internship can constitute a MAJOR aspect of the grad school experience. You learn a whole lot, build a great network of … Continue reading →

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And some of my work is featured on the Wall Street Journal

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Vykthur

Yay!! Some of my work on wearables has been featured on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ! I am very much humbled and thankful for the opportunity. Ofcourse, these are simple apps, but are actually the beginning of some more … Continue reading →

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How to Scrape/Crawl Research Data Using Selenium WebDriver – and Java

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Vykthur

As a researcher, there are many times you will need to assemble a dataset of information in the public domain (on websites) for research studies. E.g you want to analyse thousands  comments on a forum, or download and process hundreds … Continue reading →

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Gidigames Android Board Game is Going Open Source [Happy New Year!]

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Vykthur

Hurray and Happy New Year All! Gidigames is now OPEN SOURCE. You can download the Source code from Github and use it as you wish. Brief description of Gidigames Gidigames is a suite of simple (board) games that we’ve always … Continue reading →

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