Android development tutorials. Bigger content articles that aim to help one achieve or learn something in a guided/step by step pace.
In this post, I will try to explain how to write functions in Kotlin by doing a parallel with Java. It’s not rocket science or anything special in this post, but this is the way I understand and remember better how to write in Kotlin, myself (it’s something new to me too :) ), so […]
Introduction What is Kotlin? It is a new programming language built by JetBrains, and as you may already know, Google announced at Google I/O 2017, that they will now officially support this language. It is inspired by existing languages such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Scala and Groovy. What are the advantages of using Kotlin? it’s
In this tutorial we will create a simple app which has a NavigationView, a Toolbar with Tabs and a simple list of items, that are displayed for each selected tab. Tools used: Android Studio 2.2 Preview 4 Android Emulator 5x API 22 Project Create a new project by choosing the empty template and then click
About Firebase First of all, you have to know that using AdMob with Firebase is optional, at least for now, and you can still integrate AdMob by importing compile ‘com.google.android.gms:play-services’ (like in this tutorial). But even if it is optional, it is recommended, as it brings all services like AdMob, Analytics, crash reporting and other services together in just
There are situations when you might decide that you need to create 2 versions for your application: a free one and a paid one. So, in this tutorial, which is just a simple example (we will just set different colors for the 2 versions), we will see how to achieve this using flavors. Your project is
In this tutorial we will talk about Build Types and Flavors, for what are they used, what is the difference between them and what they have in common. Build Types When you work on a project, at some point you might need to run your app in release mode, or debug mode, or qa mode, or any other mode you
Android has some helpful annotations in the support library so, in this post, I will show you an example of how to use @IntDef annotation. You can use this annotation (or @StringDef annotation) instead of Enum. Steps 1. Add your constants 2. Add the @IntDef annotation and between ({ }) paranthesis, declare your constants @IntDef({CONSTANT1, CONSTANT2, CONSTANT3}) 3. Add the @Retention
If you need to use a “list” divider, but you need it on a vertical LinearLayout instead of a List you can do this by using some attributes on the LinearLayout. It’s not very straightforward as you maybe expected, but it’s not very difficult either. Before starting, you have to know the 2 major things this
In this tutorial we will see how to add tabs to a project by using TabLayout together with ViewPager, and some other new views from the design library :) Before starting I will make summary to present the main idea of creating the tabs. xml in the xml file, because we use TabLayout together with
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[vc_row height=”medium” color_scheme=”” us_bg_color=”” us_text_color=”” us_bg_image=”” us_bg_video=”0″][vc_column][vc_column_text]The previous tutorial about Floating Action Button implementation is now deprecated regarding that now, there is a support library from Android which makes the implementation of FAB more easier. You just have to add to dependencies the Design Library in your gradle file and this way, you can use the
I needed an expandable list that would let us move item from a group to another. So I wrote this simple tutorial. It’s nothing difficult to achieve on your own, but I wanted to add this code here in case someone will need it. So, we will create an ExpandableList with items that can be moved
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The Problem… So I wanted to reset my score on one of my google play games here(QuickAZ) and for that I could use Google Play Games API if the user was registered as a tester in the play console. In order to easily authenticate to the service and test the API I used Google’s Playground. The only
