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You have to master the basic controls that are used in nearly every UI before you cn move onto something more complicated. Here's how to do it in Kotlin, in an extract from thew book by Mike James, Android Programming in Kotlin: Starting With An App. 
The computer as a commodity isn't a concept that brings many into the business with enthusiasm but Alan Sugar approached the problem with a purpose that was close to visionary and the PCW was perhaps his most iconic design.
With installations of Windows 10 on 100 million devices since March, Microsoft can now claim that 900 million devices are running its current operating system and expect to reach its target of a Billion in 2020. 
Encoding, encrypting and converting data formats, open source and collected under one roof inside the browser and all thanks to GCHQ - yes, a government intelligence agency.
Oracle has announced the general availability of Java Standard Edition 13 (Java SE 13) along with the open source version, Java Development Kit 13 (JDK 13). The announcement was made at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. 
Google has overhauled the two Kotlin courses that it co-created with Udacity, Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers and Developing Android Apps with Kotlin, and made them available on Google Codelabs. 
A distributed write-ahead log has been open sourced by WePay. Waltz was originally designed to be the ledger of money transactions on the WePay system and has since been generalized to be suitable for other distributed systems that require serializable consistency. 
Our current neural networks work wonders, but they are very far from mimicking the biological brain that they are based on. Now Google Research has some breakthrough results with a more biologically plausible artificial neural network - project Ihmehimmeli. 
Don't blame me for the title - it's the title of the research paper! Can we recover lost paintings using a little AI? The answer seems to be yes, but it really all depends what you mean by "recover". 
The C++ Standard Library (STL) which ships as part of the MSVC toolset and the Visual Studio IDE is being released as open source by Microsoft. The Microsoft Visual C++ compiler and libraries toolset (MSVC) team made the announcement at CppCon 2019. 
Wing Python 7.1.1 has been updated with better handling of remote development connections, and fixes so that Pandas DataFrame and Series values are displayed correctly among a number of improvements. 
The Huawei saga seems to grow ever more unreal as it unfolds. Its main strategy to get programmers working with its new OS Harmony is a compiler, Ark, that takes Android apps and compiles them, but it seems it doesn't work. More than this, it's a very long way from working. 
GitHub has acquired code analysis company Semmle and will make Semmle's code analyis engine available to all public repositories. GitHub has also become a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority, making it easier to report vulnerabilities directly from your repositories.