Pitfalls of building a brilliant app
1. Things Should Be Where They’re Supposed to Be (Strings, Colors)
There is tremendous growth in the Android ecosystem around the globe with a diverse community. People from different backgrounds, people with disabilities, people who wish to have fancy features like night mode, and more use Android apps in their day-to-day life.
Developing apps for such a diverse community is not…
Multiple view types in RecyclerViews using sealed classes
One of the best ways to display huge lists in Android is through RecyclerView. As developers, you all might have used it. We have many advanced features like view holder patterns, rich animation, Diff-Utils callback to improve performance, etc. Apps like WhatsApp and Gmail use RecyclerView to show endless conversations.
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Build reactive Android apps with ease
In this article, you’re going to learn how to implement a sort and filter function on local storage records. Here we use Kotlin Flow to make things reactive and efficient.
Introduction
Using Room library for local storage is pretty much standard practice in 2021 android dev. One of the cool things…
Create a handler function to customize your back press events
One of the significant differences that we can find in Android and iPhone is how they handle system back press. In iOS you can swipe from left to right, whereas Android offers different options. No matter which option users opt-in to use, developers can handle the event via onBackPressed function.
History
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Creating Activity, Fragment and Navigation Graph Scoped ViewModels
Takeaway from this article
In this article we’re going to learn how to create viewmodel instances based on different scopes such as activity, fragment and navigation graph(nothing but a set fragments in a stack). We also learn why we need viewmodel factory and its importance in the process.
Prerequisites
Before digging into viewmodel creation, first…
Handle keyboard events effectively in your Android apps
In this article, we are going to learn how to manage the Android keyboard in jetpack compose. We’ll be focusing more on IME actions, keyboard types, focus listeners, etc.
Introduction
Jetpack Compose is one of the recent attempts by Google to make it easy for Android developers to build UI.
Understand how to use WebEngage in your Android codebases
WebEngage is all about user-engagement with relevant conversations across channels like Mobile Push, In-app Messaging, SMS, Web Overlay, Web Push, Email, WhatsApp and Facebook.
We’re going to explore a part of WebEngage capabilities in Android apps. We’ll start with the integration, then move to analytics part where can log events…
Creating popups just got a whole lot simpler
In this article, we’re going to learn how to build the dropdown menu in Jetpack compose. We’ll build a generic composable that can be reused. What we’re going to build is similar to the traditional drop-down menu.
Introduction
Jetpack Compose is one of the recent attempts by Google to make it…
Power up the databases of your apps
Introduction
SQLDelight is a cross-platform database library. It’s quite opposite to the traditional approach of ow annotation processes and reflections generate the code.
What makes it unique, even more than the fact that it supports cross-platform is that it takes SQL code and converts it into Kotlin/Java/Native code which supports different…
Build customizable Android apps
In this article, we’re going to learn how to show multiple bottom sheets based on user interactions. To learn the basics of bottom sheets in compose, I highly recommend you to read the article under the prerequisites section.
Introduction
Jetpack Compose is one of the recent attempts by Google to make…
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