Being A Programmer

  How to Disable Scrolling on Mobile Devices So let’s start out with setting the viewport meta in the head tags to non-scalable, like so: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" > This will disable the pinch–and–zoom effect as expected, but if you swipe vertically, the viewport will scroll and you’ll end up seeing a random bar at the bottom of the HTML page. That “bar” is the color of the HTML page below your view, which is showing because of what seems like extra padding at the bottom of the HTML. I’m not sure why this happens, but it’s  not  an issue with your code! This undesired effect happens on both Android and iOS browsers. In addition to how bad it looks, your app or game just got moved out of the viewport slightly! Luckily, this is an easy fix. If you’re using jQuery, you would use this snippet of code: $(document).bind('touchmove', function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); Otherwise, if you’re not, he...

The ever-growing Android Market is flooded with apps that never cease to push the boundaries for better user experience. These apps number by the hundreds of thousands, well past the halfway mark towards a million by now, but not all of them are crowd favorites. For every category there are hundreds of choices to pick. Well, I’ve done some filtering and have gathered a list of  20 must-have Android Apps  an Android user should get. I’ve broken it down to a few categories, namely security, backup, communication, browsers, tools, launcher and entertainment so you can just look at the categories you’d want recommendations for. If you have other Android apps you would like to recommend, you can share your opinion at the comments section. Without further ado, the 20 Android apps you simply must have on your Android device. Security AVG Antivirus AVG Antivirus is a free antivirus app for Android. It is free and gives you many features to secure your Android phone from...