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Joe Birch

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Exploring Android 12: Splash Screen

posted in Android on May 28, 2021 by hitherejoe

With the Android 12 beta now available, we’re starting to learn more about the new features that the latest version of Android gives to us. One of the things that caught my eye here is the introduction of a Splash Screen API – not only providing a standardised way for apps to present splash screens… Continue reading →

Exploring Android 12: Unified rich content API

posted in Android on February 19, 2021 by hitherejoe

With the announcement of the first Android 12 Developer Preview announced yesterday, I started to take a dive into some of the API changes and the new things we’ll be getting our hands on. One of these things was the new unified rich content API, providing a simplified way of transferring media between applications. You… Continue reading →

Exploring Jetpack Compose: Padding Modifier

posted in Android on September 11, 2020 by hitherejoe

This post is sponsored by Practical Jetpack Compose. When it comes to the composition of composables, we may want to apply additional spacing to a composables size constraints. For this we can utilise Padding – padding adds this additional space to the specified sides of the composable, essentially making it larger in size. This area… Continue reading →

Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews

posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2019 by hitherejoe

  Header Photo by The Nigmatic on Unsplash Discovering the issue It was the 14th December and we were winding down ready for the Christmas break. Our code freeze had kicked in several days previously and we had shipped an update at that time to get a couple of priority bug fixes before the holidays. We… Continue reading →

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