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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If you use compose multiplatform you might face the issue of not being able to preview your common code UI as its not officially supported yet. you can use Fleet to get a preview but i prefere Android Studio. here is how you can have previews in your common code in 2 simple steps. 1.Creating
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Level: Beginner In the previous lesson we learned how to store files and provide them as static content, at the moment anyone with access to our server’s address can add or delete fruits and while this might sound convenient we want to know who added what so we know who to blame when we see
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Level: Beginner In lesson 3 we took a look at how to save and perform different queries on our MongoDB now that we have decent data about our fruits how about we add some pictures :D! Preparing First let’s modify our Fruit data class to hold an image url, because we already had some fruits
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Level: Beginner Welcome back!, in the previous lesson we learned how to setup our mongoDB and how to add, read, update and delete documents from our collections, in this lesson we are going to learn how to make queries to filter and sort our documents!. Sorting data To sort the list of documents returned by
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Level: Beginner In the previous lesson we made our first GET and POST requests and we used a mutable list of fruits to simulate adding and retrieving data from a database, in this lesson we are going to save our data in a real database as this will be much more convenient 🙂 What is
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Level: Beginner Ktor is a lightweight and high-performance framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in Kotlin. It provides an easy-to-use and intuitive API for creating web applications, microservices, and other types of network applications. With its simple and concise syntax, Ktor allows developers to quickly create and deploy robust and scalable applications with minimal
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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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