Learn how to get the Application Context anywhere in your Android Kotlin project using Hilt dependency injection. The modern, leak-safe replacement for the old Java singleton pattern.
Have you migrated or want to migrate to the SignIn with Google that uses CredentialsManager and it’s not workin? Well, in my experience, when I tried recently to integrate this in a new project I faced 2 major issues that consumed some of my time. First Issue The first one was the lack of some
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On Android an Entry or EditText as it is called in Android Native, has by default a bottom border line when you tap inside the field. On iOS this line doesn’t exist, so if you want to have the same design on both platforms, you will have to create a custom render for iOS and
In this article I would like to emphasise over a few options that we have when working with data structure and more precisely with collections in a mutable and immutable fashion. So let’s start with a few of them and see their mutability state. But first, what makes a list mutable or immutable? Immutable Collections
Android Studio and productivity One interesting feature that Android Studio and IntelliJ IDEA have is the Productivity Guide panel. It helps you see how much of the productivity tools that are available and you are using. You can see here a quick screenshot with the one I have, on one of the computers I am
I’ve stumbled across a lot of logs noise in Android Studio throughout the time and it can be a pain when you need to debug a crash or just read some important logs of your app when your device/emulator prints lots of logs. Those logs are helpful for some cases but might not be for
Sometimes you might need to add setup files (json/xml/.properties/etc.) to your instrumentation tests (androidTest) and load them in your tests. You usually do that when loading for example some mocked data set or some fixture. In testing, fixtures often take the form of JSON or yaml files that mimic the responses from real API calls.
While debugging some Android instrumentation tests that were ran using adb shell am instrument, I needed to print some logs into the terminal/console to inspect the flow and resolve some issues. Ever been coding away, trying to track down what’s happening under the hood, thinking Log.i/e/d or System.out would be your trusty sidekicks for logging
If you ever wondered how to read and parse a simple JSON file stored in the assets directory of your Android project, here is a way to do it.
In this tutorial I will create a simple Sectioned RecyclerView that will show 2 sections and a few items in each section and how to move an item from one section to another. Note: For RecyclerView I used AndroidX imports and not android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView Setup We need to import the recycler view from AndroidX. The build.gradle
Recently, I had to add a perfect squared CardView and I wanted to achieve this without hardcoding its width and height. I happily discovered the power of ConstraintLayout. And so this is how I managed to create a perfect square which should work on every dimension. Heres some sample code that I used to create
The simplest way to add a bottom border line to a view is this one. If you search on Google and StackOverflow you will find many ways to do this, but they seemed overly complex compared to this one. So if you ever need a border line at the bottom of a view you can
We all will need at some point to show an activity indicator when our app has to perform lenghty data processing operations or when we have to wait for our app to load content. In Xamarin Forms we can use in a xaml file this property called ActivityIndicator. Below is the result of the above
