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 a great user experience. But what happens when the the user runs into a WebView...
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 purchases we are making and rediscover things that we already own. I...
In the last article we looked at both the Row and Column layouts, along with how they can be used when constructing our user interface. Alongside these Row and Column components we also have the FlexRow and FlexColumn components – which are both very similar. With the FlexRow and FlexColumn we have addition of declaring child component weights to depict how they are to be laid out inside of...
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 components that are available, exploring how we can utilise each of them within our...
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 components that are available, exploring how we can utilise each of them within our...
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. The authentication flow for Product Hunt is operated as a REST API – when it comes to the rest of the API though, this...
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 components that are available, exploring how we can utilise each of them within our...
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 components that are available, exploring how we can utilise each of them within our...
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 components that are available, exploring how we can utilise each of them within our...
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 aims to make Android TV app development simpler for developers, providing...