This year I was lucky enough to attend Google I/O with some great company. Over the course of the event we attended many sessions, so we decided to write a short post together on our favourite parts from the event. Note: These are just a few of our favourite events. Be sure to check them… Continue reading
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Exploring CameraX on Android: Use Cases
In my last article we introduced the CameraX API, along with the Camera View component found within the source of the project. In this article we’re going to dive into the second part of the CameraX API – the core library to learn what it is and how we can make use of the functionality… Continue reading
Exploring CameraX on Android: Camera View
If you’ve ever used the Camera APIs on Android, you may have felt that they’ve never been the simplest thing to implement. There was originally the Camera API, which was deprecated in favour of the Camera2 API – this iteration aimed to provide developers with a better experience when dealing with camera APIs on Android…. Continue reading
Exploring in-app updates on Android
I’m sure there has often been a time when you’ve needed to send out an app update that has some form of urgency – maybe there’s a security issue or some bug which is causing a lot of issues for users. Previously, we’ve needed to roll out a new update on the Google play store… Continue reading
Exploring Android Q: Bubbles
A few weeks back we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for… Continue reading
Exploring Android Q: Sharing Shortcuts
A few weeks back we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for… Continue reading
Exploring Android Q: Location Permissions
Last week we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for getting our… Continue reading
Exploring Android Q: Settings Panels
It’s here! Yesterday we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In my next set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared… Continue reading
Handling pricing changes with the Google Play Billing Library
Sometimes things change. And in these cases, it’s likely that you’ll want to be able to make adjustments to reflect these changes. In the context of applications, we may offer subscriptions – and it’s common for the prices of these to change along the way. In this case, we’ll want to adjust the prices for… Continue reading
Exploring the View Pager 2
It’s likely when working in the Android realm you’ve come across the ViewPager class at some point. This view allows us display a collection of fragments or views to display to the user in a swipe-able format – especially popular within on-boarding and content display screens. This component has been with us in the Android… Continue reading