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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This example is targeting conversion of Base64 String to Image and representing that image on screen using Kotlin programming language language. The advantages of using Base64 string to image is the load times, especially if you are getting the image from server. The downside of using Base64 String is thatRead 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 →
This is simple example how to implement double-click on back button to exit the application. There will be a message alerting you that clicking again on back button will exit.Read 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 →