This is the third and last part of Android ktx tutorial. In this part, we’re gonna explore the core ktx library extension functions. The core ktx have so much cool extension function which makes the Android coding much concise, simple and idiomatic. The core ktx currently cover some of the most used classes in Android…
If you’re developing an Android application with Kotlin, then I have good news for you. Recently Google released an Android ktx library, which is a set of Kotlin Extension function. Android ktx is a part of Jetpack family. The purpose of Android ktx is to write less code and more concise. Android ktx brings us…
Finally, Android O support library got this feature covered. Material design recommends using a dynamic type instead of smaller type sizes or truncating larger size text. A TextView that automatically resize the text, expand and fill its layout based on the text view characteristics and boundaries. These characteristics make it easier to optimize the text size…
Emojis, Emojis, Emojis. If you’re working on a chat app or creating an app in which user has to communicate with other users, this blog is for you. New Emojis are constantly being added to the Unicode standard. Now, it’s important that all users will be able to see the new Emojis even if they are stuck on previous…
Hello, guys today we’re gonna look out a new Android Architecture Component library called Paging. In this blog, I try to explain the different components of the library and tell how they interact. Paging library makes it easier to load data gradually and gracefully in your app. The paging library supports both large bounded list…
Hello guy’s, today we gonna look out how to work with QRCode. Recently, I’ve been working on my startup. My startup is based on Wallet App. So, I had to implement QRCode generator and reader on the client side. When creating the app I had faced a lot difficulty to find the right solution. So, I thought it…
Today we’re gonna look out a new Android Architecture Component library called Room. The room is basically a “Persistence library that provides an abstraction over SQLite“. The room is a new way to create the database in your Android apps. Although the Android framework provides built-in support for SQLite database, there are many drawbacks working with SQLite….
Hi, guys today I’m gonna talked to you about a new library Google released is WorkManager. WorkManager is a part of AndroidJetpack and an Architecture Component for a background work. WorkManager chooses an appropriate way to schedule a background task depending on the device API level and including dependencies. It might use JobScheduler, Firebase JobDispatcher, or AlarmManager. …
Recently I’ve been working on a media player application in my previous freelancing project. The application includes so much online, offline audio and video streaming. So, I tried to use Android framework classes such as MediaPlayer and AudioPlayer to play media files. As it turned out after so many hours of frustration, MediaPlayer sends out weird exceptions and I…
Hi, guys today we’re going to see how we can animate marker on google map with user current location. In this blog, we’re going to use the Google Map API for google maps. I’m not going to show how you can get Google Map API from Google Console. If you want to see how to…