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Improve Android APK installation time on Pepper

Improve Android APK installation time on Pepper
How to reduce Android APK size to optimize deployment on Pepper QiSDK robot - As a developer, you may want to accelerate the build and the deployment of an application on Pepper from Android Studio. Here is a useful optimization trick to optimize the build and deploy time, to reduce the size of the application package (APK) and therefore improve installation and deployment time.
2020/05/26
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Improve Android APK installation time on Pepper
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Intention actions, the useful contextual help in Android Studio

Intention actions, the useful contextual help in Android Studio
How to use the contextual shortcut Alt+Enter or Option+Enter - Among many keyboard shortcuts, Android Studio provides a very useful context aware shortcut to manage intention actions: Alt+Enter (non Mac world) or Option+Enter (Mac world)
2020/05/26
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Intention actions, the useful contextual help in Android Studio
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Pepper Point at

Pepper Point at
How to make Pepper point at specific directions
2020/05/26
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Pepper Point at
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Pepper Solitaries Loop

Pepper Solitaries Loop
How to attract people with loops of animation
2020/05/26
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Pepper Solitaries Loop
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Pepper's OS Release Note 2.9.4

Pepper's OS Release Note 2.9.4
A Reader's Digest about the NAOqi Release Note and QiSDK and relevant information for partners and developers. - NAOqi is Pepper’s Operating System, the main software that runs on the robot and controls it. QiSDK is the specific software development kit for Pepper android (aka Pepper QiSDK). This public Release Note intends to give a brief review of the last notable changes impacting developers.
2020/03/02
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Pepper QiSDK
Pepper's OS Release Note 2.9.4
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Developer Center v1.2 Release note ("Carnival")

Developer Center v1.2 Release note ("Carnival")
2020/03/02
Developer Center v1.2 Release note ("Carnival")
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Chatbots

Chatbots
and the uncanny valley of linguistics - Are you interested in chatbots? If so, you are probably familiar with the challenging topic of vocal interaction... As a SoftBank Robotics linguist working on the subject with our robots, I attended a linguistics conference to check the state of the art on this issue. Here’s what I learned there!
2020/02/27
Chatbots