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 →
View binding is a feature that allows you to more easily write code that interacts with views. Once view binding is enabled in a module, it generates a binding class for each XML layout file present in that module.Read 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 →
This is helper class with regular expression built in to detect if some string have HTML body or not.Read More →
This post explains how to stop other application that plays music in background (Media player, Spotify, Deezer,…) and play audio from your app. Also, the second part explains how, when your audio stop playing, to release audio focus from your app and the audio apps in background to continue fromRead More →
This is an simple example how you can show and hide a custom layout view using slide animation effect. We are going to use one button for toggling a ConstraintLayout as a custom view for the animation effect (you can use whatever container view you prefer). The preferred programming languageRead 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 →
A way of getting screen sizes of the device in pixels and density independent pixels (dp)Read 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 →