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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
JavaFX is a set of graphics and a media package that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms, in one bundle, without the need for many separate libraries, frameworks, and APIs to achieve the same goal. These separate librariesRead More →
What is XML? Pronunciation: /ˌeksemˈel/ noun COMPUTING a metalanguage which allows users to define their own customized markup languages, especially in order to display documents on the Internet. Basically XML doesn’t do anything. Its markup language – eXtensible Markup Language. It is similar to HTML but not quite so. View itRead More →