Author: Dipin Krishna
iOS: Change the Orientation of the Status Bar
Lets see how to change the orientation of the status bar programmatically in an iphone/ipad application. There are four orientations: Portrait, PortraitUpsideDown, LandscapeLeft, LandscapeRight. The…
iOS: How to get App’s Version number (CFBundleVersion)
Recently, i had to make an update to one of my apps. I was trying to figure out a way to see if all the users have…
Asianet(ISP) now showing Interstitial ads (intad.pag2p.co) along with their javascript injection.
Asianet had been injecting javascript code to each webpage requested, for the past three months now. Now, they have started showing interstitial ads. When you type in…
iOS: NSNotificationCenter – broadcast information within a program
An NSNotificationCenter object (or simply, notification center) provides a mechanism for broadcasting information within a program. An NSNotificationCenter object is essentially a notification…
iOS: Check whether internet connection is available
Updated for 2026: this tutorial is from 2012. For a current version in SwiftUI, see SwiftUI: Check Internet Connection with NWPathMonitor. Here, i am just checking whether network…
android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException due to StrictMode.ThreadPolicy
StrictMode.ThreadPolicy was introduced since API Level 9 and the default thread policy had been changed since API Level 11, which in short, does not allow network operation (include HttpClient and HttpUrlConnection) get executed on UI thread. if you do this, you get NetworkOnMainThreadException.