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How to use Hilt for dependency injection in your Android projects

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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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Making API request using Ktor client in Android

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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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Bottom navigation bar setup tutorial – Android [XML]

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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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Using SharedPreferences to save basic user info

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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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Display a list of items in a RecyclerView on Android using Kotlin

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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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upload image from ktor client to ktor server

Uploading image using Android Ktor client to Ktor server

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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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