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Youtube not working in Vianet NetTV? Here's how you can fix it

 All Vianet users are aware that Youtube doesn't work in NetTV STB box provided by Vianet. The box is basically an Android OS 6.0 flashed with NetTV image, which means if you can access Play Store you should be able to install Youtube Android app and use it normally. Also, the method described here doesn't impact your regular nettv usage since you can go back to watching TV channels anytime. Items required : USB Keyboard and/or USB Mouse Google account (the one in your android phone if available) NetTV STB box setup connected to a TV display Steps : Unplug your ethernet cable. You'll instead connect to WiFi. Plug in your keyboard to the box and make sure it is turned on. Navigate to Settings and then Network. Select Wireless and connect to your home wifi as you would connect on a smartphone. Go back to home screen and on your Keyboard, press Windows Key( Win ) + B . This will open android browser. Navigate to  https://play.google.com/store/apps  and login using your google

Moving codebase from one git repository to other

Ever since github opened private repository feature to general user, all the developers have been moving their project repo to github. I myself too jumped on the bandwagon recently, and started putting up old projects as well as unfinished ones(there's a lot of those) as private repos in github. I had been taking shelter under gitlab and bitbucket as a backup place for them, but decided it was time to move them to github once and for all. Steps : 1. First I pulled the projects off of the old repo, using the following line :     git clone <git-project-url from old repo> 2. After getting inside the project directory, I used the following command to point it to my newly created repo in github.     git remote set-url origin <git-project-url from github> 3. I entered the following to confirm the change worked.     git remote -v Now, if you didn't have a README.md file on the previous repo, but github created one for you when you created the repo, this is going to create

Publishing your first app built using Expo to Android Play Store and iOS App Store without using a Mac hardware

This sounds like what a lot of beginner developers need right now. You make an app and you want it to be available to users instantly without having to distribute using pesky installation files or google drive links. Also, when you start out on Expo, you hear a lot of 'cross-platform' keywords being thrown around, and that's what brought you to Expo in the first place. Now that you're ready to start sharing, you need help publishing it to the stores and making it instantly ready, so you can focus on other things such as marketing, testing, feature upgrade and so on. This guide attempts to piece together what you'd need to for publishing your app to both android and ios store. And yes, you don't necessarily need a MacOS hardware for publishing to iOS App store. Once you're ready with making all changes, you're ready to build the production version. Pre-requisites Firstly, update the version code in your app.json file. This is done so that each time you up