At Google I/O this year we saw the introduction of Firebase MLKit, a part of the Firebase suite that intends to give our apps the ability to support intelligent features with more ease. The SDK currently comes with a collection of pre-defined capabilities that are commonly required in applications — you’ll be able to implement these in… Continue reading
Flutter is a UI framework from Google that can be used to build native experiences that works across popular platforms. When I first discovered Flutter last year I decided to take a bit of a look into it. Now, to be honest, I’ve always been skeptical of frameworks that off cross-platform support —unfortunately I feel… Continue reading
Several months ago I played around with animating app bars in Flutter using the SliverAppBar Widget — this is a really great way of adding a nice touch to your flutter screens that are making use of the AppBar widget. For that reason, I thought I’d put together this post in the hope it will help you… Continue reading
On Android we recently saw the introduction and use of the Bottom App Bar which also allows you to add a ‘notch’ when a floating action button component is to be inset into the view. I quite like the look of this component and wanted to make use of it within a Flutter side-project I’m… Continue reading
Version 28 of the Android support library was recently announced — within the current alpha version there is a collection of exciting new components that we now have access to. In this article, I want to take a look at the additions which have been made to the Support library in the form of Material view components…. 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
A few days 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 / changes to… Continue reading
Actions on Google is a pretty fascinating platform when it comes to the creation of conversational tools. So far myself I’ve been able to create a couple of small tools that could have the potential to help users out in one way or another. But there’s one thing that’s always been present on my mind — they’ve… Continue reading
Yesterday Google announced android-ktx, which is a set of Kotlin extensions for Android app development. It looks like the aim of the library is to continue with the advantages that kotlin brings to our project — less code, more fun and a simpler to understand project. Now, the library is only in preview so it is likely… Continue reading