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 →
Parsing XML response from RSS feed in Android have always been a bit complicated. All this issues are combiend in very good library RSS-Parser. As the repo says and in this example, “RSS Parser is an Android library to parse any RSS feed. With RSS Parser, you can fetch plenty of usefulRead More →
Here is some helper util functions to retrieve some Application identification programmatically, like name, version, play store url and other info.Read More →
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 →
From API 29 or Android 10, Android introduced a feature for Display cutouts on the screen (for camera for example). These are call Insets and can be accessed via DisplayCutout object. In this example is described how to get the size of this cutouts:Read More →
I was stuck with a log values from one library that I was using in a project. The values that the library was producing were printed in Android studio logcat and visible. Some of those log values I needed inside my app, but there was no library function/method go getRead 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 →
Extended floating action buttons are used for a special type of promoted action. They are distinguished by an icon and a text floating above the UI and have special motion behaviors related to morphing, launching, and the transferring anchor point. Extended floating action buttons may have icon and text, butRead More →