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 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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