So your apps just implemented a shiny new dark theme and it’s looking 👌 And if you haven’t yet, maybe it’s in the pipeline for you to work on sometime in the future! There are lots of benefits to having a dark theme in your application, and having it consistent throughout your application allows for… Continue reading
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Building an App with Kotlin Multiplatform: Structuring our app
Over the past few months I’ve been seeing more and more talk of Kotlin multiplatform online. With this rise in conversations on the topic, I naturally became more and more curious about the technology. I recently started planning out one of my next side-projects, Minimise – the app to help us think more about the… Continue reading
Exploring Jetpack Compose: Row & Column
Important: The contents of this article have been deprecated with newer releases for Jetpack Compose. Read more on these links about the Column and Row.
Exploring GraphQL with Coroutines on Android
In a recent article of mine we took a look at how we could implement OAuth flows in Android with the use of Custom Tabs . This was done using the Product Hunt API and now that we authenticated users within our client, we can go ahead and interact with the rest of the API…. Continue reading
Exploring Jetpack Compose: Text
Within Android Studio 4.0 Canary 1 we can start exploring Jetpack compose, a new way to build the UI for your android applications in a declarative manner. To get started with jetpack compose, there is a great tutorial on the official developer site. In this series of articles I want to dive into each of the… Continue reading
Exploring Jetpack Compose: Button
Important: The contents of this article have been deprecated with newer releases for Jetpack Compose. If you’re looking to learn about the Button composable, please see the guides here. If there are any questions on how to make use of the Button component then please do reach out. Otherwise, I’ll catch you in the next… Continue reading
Exploring Android Leanback: Browse Branding
When it comes to building apps for Android TV, things get pretty different when compared to building apps for phones. The experience completely changes for the user – in both the way that content is consumed and how the device is interacted with. Luckily for us we have the Leanback library from Android Jetpack which… Continue reading
Practical SwiftUI: Onboarding UI
At WWDC this year we saw the announcement for SwiftUI, a new way to build user interfaces for our iOS applications in a declarative manner. Whilst SwiftUI is still in beta and there are likely changes to occur in the syntax, it’s felt worthwhile digging into it to prepare for the future approach for building… Continue reading
Media Store access using openFile() on Android 10
As of Android 10, things have changed slightly with how we access files that are contained outside of our application. This change of behaviour has come from the concept of scoped storage – which aims to improve the privacy of user files, adding more control to how files are accessed within the android system. Even… Continue reading
Using Firebase on Android with Kotlin Coroutines
Whilst recently working on a side project I ran into a situation where I needed to make use of the Android Firebase SDKs. This project of mine uses Kotlin Coroutines for all of the asynchronous task handling, so ideally I wanted to keep any Firebase calls to use the same approach – not only so… Continue reading