Friday 15 April 2016

How To Embed A Google Form On Your Website

Sometimes we get stuck at stupid things and it never hurts to get a quick solution rather than trying to figure out on your own.

"How To Embed A Google Form On Your Website" was one of them for me.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any such quick solution. All the top related posts were based on old format of Google Drive. For a second I thought, 'Could it be that Google has removed this feature?'.

But ultimately, I did discover it, and it's pretty darn simple.

So,

Here's what it looks like when you go on to create a new form.

How To Embed A Google Form On Your Website
Now, once you're done with crafting your Google form, just click on that SEND button in the top-right corner. A popup like the the one shown below will appear.

How To Embed A Google Form On Your Website
Now, to embed the form on your blog or website, click on the third '< >' option next to 'Send via'.
It will be something like this.

How To Embed A Google Form On Your Website
Now simply copy and paste the code wherever you wish to embed the form.

Tuesday 12 April 2016

Building apps using React Native App Generator

native app generator
React Native has been around for quite a while now and is gaining huge popularity within the developer community since its launch by Facebook in March 2015 having received 5629 commits  and 30,206 stars on their Github repo in such a small span.
Those who are not or little familiar with it, React Native is a framework for building native apps using React and Javascript.
The best parts about it,
  • JavaScript to build native apps
    React Native has JavaScript running in a background thread which prevents the UI from hanging and makes coding easy for JavaScript developers.
    Ultimately, it gives you the user experience of the native mobile platforms, along with the developer experience of building on the web.
    All operations between the JavaScript application code and the native platform are performed asynchronously. Hence, React Native apps are naturally fluid and responsive.
  • Native all over
    Unlike PhoneGap, which has webview instead of native UI making it slow, everything about React Native is very much native, native components, native views, native modules, native everything. You can update your UI effortlessly.
    All of that with no compromise in performance because as we pointed out, there is JavaScript running on a separate thread.
  • No trouble of compiling again and again
    With React Native, you don’t need to compile every time you make a change. It’s just as simple as you code in the browser; save and reload.
After our amazing experience of working with React, we were more than excited to try our hands on React Native, which led us to build Native Starter Pro, a single Javascript code based iOS and Android starter kit over React Native.
react native starter project
Following the awesome feedback we got from its users, we were inspired to add more to it and that, brought React Native App Generator into existence.
React Native App Generator
The app generator generates apps on the layout of Native Starter Pro in five simple steps.
You choose your colours, app name, a logo, an awesome splash screen, build your menu.
And you're good to go. You can download your app and you'll receive the generated app's source code in your Inbox then and there.
react native app generatorThe app generator is free for Native Starter Pro users.
What could be a better head start for your project?
You can take a better look at its features on its official product page on StrapMobile.
You can also analyze the workflow of React Native App Generator even if you're not a user of Native Starter Pro.
We really appreciate feedbacks, so do tell us what you think of it. 
Originally posted on LinkedIn.