Intro Live Templates are a compose-related tool added to Android Studio that allows you to enter code snippets for fast insertion by typing an abbreviation corresponding to a template abbreviation. Live Templates can help you optimize everyday tasks and speed up your work. For example, when working with Compose, youRead More →
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Intro This post is part three of our RecyclerView exercises series and in it, we will show you how to replace the on-click action with a long-press action using an onLongClickListener and an interface. You can check parts one and two. Exercise For this exercise we will use the projectRead More →
Intro In this post we will demonstrate how to update an item in your RecyclerView. Updating an item in RecyclerView is useful when you are working with a list of elements that you will sent for example as a part of an API request, but the user has an optionRead More →
You may come across a situation when you need to mark visually the item that the user clicked in your RecyclerView. In our user scenario we need to change the background of the item in the RecyclerView on click by the user and then when the user clicks on aRead More →
While working on android apps we use a number of utility classes to encapsulate certain logic that we need on multiple places in the application. We use this android utility classes to display or hide UI elements, to check the network connection etc. We are using Kotlin in this example,Read More →
Intro According to the Android documentation a drawable resource is a general concept for a graphic that can be drawn to the screen and which you can retrieve with APIs such as getDrawable(int) or apply to another XML resource with attributes such as android:drawable and android:icon. There are several differentRead More →
Intro In this post we will show you how you can get the visibility of a view element in Android when you scroll the screen, how to determine how much of a view is visible on the screen at given time, to follow the changes in visibility of the givenRead More →
In this post we will show you the easiest and quickest way to create style for your layout elements. This android quick tip could be very useful if you are using multiple elements of the same type that have common characteristics. The first step in doing this is: go toRead More →
Intro In this post we will demonstrate how to add color images as icons in your navigation drawer menu in Android. If you need help creating a navigation drawer you can check out this POST. Exercise First we will create a new android project using empty activity and add a navigationRead More →