Voyager is one of the easiest navigation libraries out there, it super easy to setup, customizable and provides type safety when passing arguments through Data Classes. Voyager can be used both in native android projects and in Kotlin Multi-Platform projects that use Compose multiplatform for UI. Setup First we need to add the voyager dependency […]
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Difficulty: Intermediate What is Dependency Injection? dependency injection is a design pattern in which an object or function receives other objects or functions that it depends on.[1] But what is a dependency injection library? dependency injection libraries like Dagger 2 or Hilt, are used in projects to reduce boilerplate code and have all the benifits
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Difficulty: Beginner Ktor is an excellent Http client for android it has many features such as web sockets, monitoring progress when uploading a file and the ability to use it in KMM projects across different operating system like Android and IOS. In this article we will create a simple app that makes an API request
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Difficulty: Beginner Implementing Bottom navigation on android can be a tricky task, since there isn’t clear instructions on how it can be implemented properly, in this article we are going to implement the material design ‘bottom navigation view’ with multiple back stacks that preserve their state when switching between different screens. Setup To use bottom
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Difficulty: Beginner If you have small values that you need to save in your app such as name, email or even the user`s choice of enabling dark mode, this can by easily done using shared preferences, shared preferences stores data in a key value pair this data can be shared or private to your app
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Level: Beginner If you need to show a dynamic list of items in your android app, recycler view is your best choice, recycler view is designed to display a large list of data while not consuming so much memory. RecyclerView achieves this by recycling views that are not visible on the screen and uses them
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Level: Medium Ktor is an excellent client for api requests in Android, it has many features like web-socket support, asynchronous HTTP requests, and you can extend its functionality with plugins such as authentication and JSON serialization, however uploading an image with a Ktor cleint to a Ktor server wasn’t similar to Retrofit, as trying to
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Level: Medium When working with files in your android app one of the most important aspects that you should consider is security, especially if you don’t want these files to be accessed from outside your app, storing files in your app’s specific storage will prevent other apps from accessing them but in rooted devices these
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Kotlin is a great language to start learning android development, and tbh after using kotlin everything else feels like a downgrade. One of the best futures of kotlin is coroutines and using them with retrofit calls can make your code not only abstract and simple but also pretty to look at ! But one
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This will help you fix the error message that pops up when you try to open the Gallery app in some android devices . go to Settings – Applications Switch to “All” tab look for “Media Storage” Clear Cache and Data Restart your device Done! Video tutorial:
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