Author Archives: Nicolas Form
About Nicolas Form
I'm Nicolas Form, multi-skill programmer, aesthete and joyful French guy. On this blog I share my tips and tutorials about programming and IT in general. I am freelance, so you can also contact me about a website, an Android app or any other software you need. Check my portfolio and drop me a line!Swap the rows and columns of an HTML table
I looked on the web how to quickly swap rows and columns but most of the solutions involved CSS. The EPUB format does not handle CSS very well and I preferred to convert the table in pure HTML. The only … Continue reading
Letter O or digit 0?
When playing online with friends yesterday, I had to dictate over phone a short URL with random characters in it. Unfortunately, some characters could have been the letter O or the digit 0 and I was unable to know that! … Continue reading
[Unity3D] Manage links with TextMeshPro
In Unity3D, you can use TextMeshPro or TextMeshProUGUI with embedded links. For example, your text can be: But this is not enough to get it open on click. You also need to handle the click and execute the action you … Continue reading
[Unity3D] Make a Coroutine synchronous
In Unity3D, Coroutine is a great tool to make parallel scripts in a safe way. However, in certain cases you may need to execute a Coroutine synchronously, and Unity does not offer any method out of the box to do … Continue reading
Restart service after update (Android)
For my Android project Stopeen, I implemented a functionality to schedule actions with a recurrence over time. But one of my problem was : when people will update my app from the store, the service in background will be killed, … Continue reading
Android Studio Bookmarks
Here is a small tip for Android Studio. I added a bookmark by accident, in one of my source file, and I did not find out easily how to remove it.
Parallax scrolling in HTML5
The parallax scrolling is an effect applied to an image to make it move slower or faster than the other images. This effect is very popular in the 2D games, to create a feeling of deepness : when an image … Continue reading
Turn off 4G on Android phones
You can stop looking for a “4G switch” to toggle 4G in your Android settings, it does not exists. To turn off 4G on smartphones, you need to disable access to the LTE network. Many Android devices (Galaxy S4, Galaxy … Continue reading
Activity: forget onPause to handle focus changes
I spent one whole afternoon on a very silly issue about the Android activity lifecyle when the focus changes and the device is turned on. I want to share it with you to avoid you some hours of investigation!
Droidcon Paris 2014: talks
This article follows the Droidcon Paris 2014 overview I published two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I could not assist to all of the talks, because generally they were 3 at the same time. Here is a sum up of the talks … Continue reading
