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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...

When designing the user interface for your application, you want to make sure that your design is optimal, intuitive, and provides a pleasant user experience once published. To do this, you will likely want to use your...

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...

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...

Tensorflow serving is a mechanism to host the trained model on the server so that inference can be done without downloading model on the local system. A machine learning model is a mathematical function that takes some...

Build MVVM Application with Kotlin—Part1：Getting StartedFirst: what is MVVM?MVVM is the abbreviation of Model-View-ViewModel, which is another architectural pattern different from MVC and MVP.Compared with MVP,...

Learn how to add push notifications in your chat apps in Android Kotlin with CometChat Pro & FirebaseThis story was originally published with collaboration with CometChat Pro, and Alex Booker on their tutorials...

Hello everyone. I hope you are doing well. This blog post is about writing your first local unit test in Android. Testing is an integral part of the Software Engineering and testing will help you write software that is...

Ever got annoyed by the ‘high standards’ of the password you are bound to set these days? Here is a concept of a small delighter.https://medium.com/media/b9dfcb2a5fa0273bdfcaa56a4c4b3cef/hrefInspired by this article...

How to save model object in PreferencesMany times, we need to save an instance of class which has only fields like Int, Long, Float, Double, String, Boolean and has further objects of different classes which are again...

Hello,In this tutorial, I shall be telling you how to generate API key for Baidu maps.First, create Baidu account here: http://motu.baidu.com/register.htmlAfter completing registration, go to...

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 World ExampleI came across...

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

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

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 help of LiveData +...

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 before, every leap was...

Photo by henry perks on UnsplashAccording to the policy of google the place picker is depreciated in January and the new version of place picker is available but it’s very difficult and confusing.So I have to find a...