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 →
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 →
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 post is the first part of three posts series. In this post we will create a navigation drawer in an android project using Views instead of Fragments. In the second part we will see how to add a toggle button on the navigation drawer and add listeners forRead More →
Intro In this exercise we will show you how to display text in a TextView on Button click. The Exercise In this exercise we will be using only one activity. In this activity we will create one TextView and three buttons, and set them so when button one is pressed,Read More →
Intro As we said in a previous post most applications today contain multiple screens, which means they are compiled from multiple activities. We have already created an exercise to see in action switching between two simple activities. Now we will see the process of passing data between two activities withRead More →
The Legend of the Lawyer who became a Developer continues. We have left our not so young lawyer who was determined to became a developer shocked and scared, as he was preparing for the interview. The end or the beginning? The day came and he climbed up the stairs toRead More →
In this exercise we are going to create a new project and in MainActivity we will override all of the basic Lifecycle callback methods. The idea is for each of the basic callback method to display a message to the user that method is called so we can see theRead More →
The Legend of the Lawyer who became a developer Not so long ago, in a land far far away, in a small village lived a not so young lawyer. This lawyer was not happy. After 10 years as a lawyer he decided to leave his comfort zone and follow hisRead More →
Java exercise: Guessing Game Practicing your craft is very important part of being a developer. Using Java, you need to create a guessing game where the computer will think of a random number between 1-100, and the player gets 10 turns to guess the number. You will need to ask theRead More →