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For Starters, simply run the command “gradlew :app:dependencies” in your terminalGradle Dependency Tree Printed in ConsoleRecently, in one of my projects, we were stuck at a very annoying exception...

sourceTop Features of Android 11 from Developer’s Point of ViewOn September 3, 2019, the release day of Android 10, the buzz was so amazing the people were buying a new phone just to utilize cool features of Android...

The backgroundAndroid Jetpack’s Navigation component is the modern solution for navigating between screens in Android apps. It supports both activities and fragments (including dialogs). What is more, it allows to...

A basic overview of most interesting features in the Android Studio 4.0 BetaAndroid Studio 4.0 Launcher ScreenLast week was somehow a good week for Android developers like me. For me, it was majorly because I became...

Custom TabLayout Indicator in — Android.Make your Indicator with your choice.Photo by Hal Gatewood on UnsplashThis article belongs to what I have learned today, so basically I need to Implement a custom...

“let”-“run”-“with”-“also”-“apply” — Kotlin scope functions.pc: google.comI hope all of you know these are Kotlin standard scope functions which are used to run a block of code with a context...

When using ViewBinding (available from Android Studio 3.6), a best practice is to nullify the binding in a Fragment’sonDestroyView. In our project, we often forgot to do so. We also copy-pasted binding logic to all...

Building a proxy server with KtorMy attempt towards building a proxy server using Ktor as the backbone and some other cool Kotlin libraries.Most mobile developers and front end developers have been in a situation where...

TLDR: Are you the passionate about community work and giving back? If yes, you can become too.The welcome email I got today from GoogleIt was date 02–20–2020. A weird yet cool game of numbers, right? One of its...

Make your Commit Messages Great Again!Photo by Safar Safarov on UnsplashThe Problem 🐛We recently came across a production bug that was causing our android app to crash, so we started debugging 🥁.After a few...

Source GoogleHave you ever feel tired of typing Log.d(TAG, Message) or Toast.makeToast() etc? If YES then you are at the right place. This article is centered around the real power utilization of Android Studio. Just...

Android 10With the Release of Android 10 (Api level 29 or Q) a lot of things have changed in the android sdk especially security wise which is a good thing but being something that keeps evolving, there are always pros...

Image credit: Maxime BourgeoisToken-Based Authentication with Retrofit | Android OAuth 2.0Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client by Square that was built for the Android platform. It offers an easy and clean way to make...

Photo by Reinis Birznieks on UnsplashEvery mobile developer has faced this scenario before: you have an application that is ready to be released, you got down all the MVP features that you want, you tested it on...

Photo by Andrew Hughes on UnsplashThis article has nothing to do with a philosophical approach to have some kind of a dark side of yourself. It is just about Android development, which is a serious business.There are...

Flutter’s declarative and reactive UI, support for the application state, smooth animations and dual-platform availability are compelling reasons for the mobile developer to create production-ready apps...

My first thought when I used Room for the first time was “ugh… SQL queries?!”. I wasn’t a fan of having to write queries at all. Especially after being spoiled by great NoSQL libraries like Realm and Google’s...

Recently Google came out with a new app serving model: “Dynamic Feature Module”. The Overall concept is way-out like one has only to download data which he is using. I took this as a challenge and tried to implement...