Android TV versus Android TV-Box Android, being used in lot of mobile devices is also part of TVs and set-top boxes. The main difference between both approaches is the user interface and applications. Android TV-Box: it’s like a tablet or mobile connected to a TV and usually requires external keyboard, often integrated in the remote. Android TV: it’s a version of Android that incorporates TV changes in the OS so that it can be controlled with an arrow cursor remote plus back, home and microphone key. ...

Introduction After setting up build automation we also wanted it not to happen only when updating the documentation repository. Besides hosting documentation, Elegant website also serves as a live demo of the current release. This meant, the website should be regenerated and updated every time when a documented is added or edited, and also when Elegant theme is updated. Github and Travis doesn’t offer dependent builds out of the box, so the trick goes to ‘signal’ via a github token to trigger a Travis-CI build. ...

Background Elegant theme for pelican has been undergoing a big change from individual-driven effort to community, as part of this, one of the tasks to accomplish, has been the decoupling from author blog to project site for documentation. As we wanted this process to be both automated and allowed us to demonstrate via eat-your-own-dog-food that the theme works and how it looks, the idea was to automate the rendering of Pelican website with new documents. ...

Introduction In the article “Contributing to OpenStack” we did cover on how to prepare accounts and prepare your changes for submission upstream (and even how to find low hanging fruits to start contributing). Here, we’ll cover what happens behind the scene to get change published. Upstream workflow Peer review Upstream contributions to OSP and other projects are based on Peer Review, that means that once a new set of code has been submitted, several steps for validation are required/happen before having it implemented. ...

Peru a repository synchronizer Some projects upstream bind together lot of files which might not be of interest, but still the convenience of a git pull to get latest updates, makes you to download the whole repository for just a bunch of files or folders. For example, this website uses Pelican to generate the webpages out of markdown files. Pelican does have a rich set of plugins but all of them are in the same folder in the git checkout. ...