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 →
In our last post we showed you how to create a bottom navigation bar in Android using BottomNavigationView. BottomNavigationView. But how to easily change the color of menu item and text of the menu items in the bottom navigation view. It is very easy and simple to change the colorRead More →
Intro In this post we will demonstrate how to create a bottom navigation bar in Android using BottomNavigationView. BottomNavigationView creates bottom navigation bars, making it easy to explore and switch between top-level content views with a single tap. You should use bottom navigation for top level destinations that need toRead More →
In a situation where you are getting a response from an API, but there are some additional data (images, descriptions, etc.) that are lacking in the response and you need to add them. If the data that you want to add is small in size you can store that dataRead More →
public static rules myRulesOfLife (and coding) { The views expressed in this post are my very personal take on life and coding. You can like some of them or all of them or none of them, you can choose to accept the advice or ignore everything i say. We allRead More →
Intro You are working on an app that has a list of contacts and you want to send an email to one of them for example. The easiest way to do this is to open an email client from your application. You also want to send the data from yourRead More →
Intro What to do when you need to start an activity just to get some data from this activity and then go back to your previous activity. When you want to send a message and you go to your list of contacts just to select a contact and then goRead More →
Intro This is part three of the Navigation drawer in Android post and it will be a demonstration on how to add drop-down items on a navigation drawer without using ExpandableListView. The Exercise We will continue working on the same project that we created for part one and part two ofRead More →
In this post, we will give a short review of the tips for software developers from the book “The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master” by authors Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, published by Addison-Wesley, 2000. This is not a new book but the guidelines for developers given in this book areRead More →
Intro This is part two of the Navigation drawer in Android post and it will be a demonstration on how to create a toggle button on the navigation drawer menu and add listeners to track on toggle switch events. The Exercise We will continue working on the same project thatRead More →