At Google I/O there were a lot of new announcements around the latest version of Android, P. One of these announcements were Priority Buckets — a battery management update to Android where the system will prioritise resources based on both how recently, and how frequently, the application in question is used. In this article we’re going to… Continue reading
The TabBar widget can be used to display a collection of tabs to the user in a horizontal format. The user would then select the desired tab, which would then change the content being displayed on the screen to match the currently selected tab. It is likely that you have already used tabs in an… Continue reading
A few weeks or so ago the first developer preview of Android P was made available to us. Along with this announcement we were introduced to a number of new features and APIs made available to us in this release of Android. Whilst it is still early days (and there are likely new things /… Continue reading
The Image widget allows us to display an image within our user interface via a number of different means. This is done via the use of several different constructors, we can do this by using: Image() — Used to load an image from an ImageProvider. Here we simply provide an ImageProvider instance for the image parameter for… Continue reading
A Column is a widget used to display child widgets in a vertical manner. When children are placed within the Column then the widget will not allow scroll features to view all children — it will simply display the children that are visible within view. For example, if we wished to display three text widgets within a… Continue reading
A Row is a widget used to display child widgets in a horizontal manner. When children are placed within the Row then the widget will not allow scroll features to view all children — it will simply display the children that are visible within view. For example, if we wished to display three text widgets within a… Continue reading
Emojis are everywhere — it’s hard to visit a website, app or have a conversation without emojis popping up somewhere along the line 😀 Because of this, it’s important that all users who are involved in these kind of activities are able to see the emojis being used. If not, textual content can be misunderstood or misinterpreted…. Continue reading