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Arrow is a functional programming tool-kit for Kotlin. We can apply a lot of the functional programming concepts with it, as we do in other purely functional programming languages.ArrowA Real...

New way to bind instances to your component.Photo by Cassie Boca on UnsplashWhile using dagger2 we all come across a situation where we want to pass dependency to our modules from outside in order...

📚Learning ConstraintLayout — 🚀Live Templates for Rescue 🚒Save time and improve productivity by using Live Templates for ConstraintLayoutThis story was originally published on my...

SwipeRefreshLayout With NestedScrollView — AndroidRefresh you View Content with SwipeRefreshLayoutCreditsIntroduction:In Android we have SwipeRefreshLayout, we often used this in our layouts to...

When building an app, most of the time what we’re doing is pretty much mapping direct/indirect actions to some UI state.While using Architecture Components, achieving this is quite easy with the...

Photo by Fredy Jacob on UnsplashIt’s this thing we are all aware of, but always take for granted. As the technology progressed, we cared less and less about how much memory our devices have. If...

If you want your users to be able to interact with your android app even if it is not on the foreground, the notification is at your service. Here comes the step by step guideline.Step...

One smooth pattern completely changed the way I organize my Activities and Fragments now. I’ve tried out a lot of different approaches, until I found one that is extremely easy to implement, use...

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on UnsplashWriting UI test is a great way to automate and simplify the QA process in the mobile development cycle. For Android, Espresso is the best option so far.Almost all...

Hello everyone, in this article we’re gonna see the simplest method to implement a search functionality in an Android app which uses Room as the database in these 4 easy steps!RecyclerView Search...

Robolectric is a great tool to test classes that depend on Android views and classes properly. I use Robolectric heavily to test custom view logic.I wrote a custom view to mimic TextInputLayout with...

Photo by Jon Moore on UnsplashThis article is the third part of the series, Storing data securely on Android. If you are new to this series or want to read the previous part,...

Photo by fotografierende from PexelsImagine this. Its the start of December and your client has requested a feature that presents a special offer to users of your app a week before and after New...

Sample App — Android Unidirectional Data FlowUsing LiveData in Coinversepc — Ned Scher, Waterfall at Yosemite National Park (2015)Code in the wild is always better to learn from than...

Learn how to create a chat app in Android with CometChat ProThis story was originally published with collaboration with CometChat Pro, and Alex Booker on their tutorials blog.Once you’ve...

Android MVVM — Do’s and Don’tsimage by stfalcon.comHello folks, I’m learning MVVM architecture with almost all Jetpack components, Dagger2, Retrofit & a few other libraries (I know...

Image SourceThe more a phone’s camera understands, the more powerful and creative mobile applications can be. Few subjects are more important to understand than our pets: doggos, floofs, fluffers,...

Recently I got to work on a rewriting of the Software Engineering Daily Android app. SED is a great podcast, you should checked it out if you are not a listener already.Anyway, starting on a...

Kotlin coroutines have been stable since Kotlin 1.3. As a result, we can finally get rid of the experimental flag and start our exciting journey into the uncharted magical world of concurrency.But...

We are into the 10th year of Android development (Android Q should be 10.0). As per Beta 4, Android Q is officially API level 29. Even though we have a Beta 5 and a Beta 6 is expected, the API’s...

A “reactive” way to explain some key points and concepts regarding ReactiveXThis article is not meant to explain how ReactiveX works, there are already plenty of them out there (some link at the...