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. With this comes the barcode scanning feature, giving us the ability to scan barcodes and QR codes to retrieve data from the… Continue reading
Last year I opened sourced a collection of Clean Architecture boilerplate repositories over at my works’ GitHub page. Whilst these were experiments and me exploring to find a balance between abstraction and maintainable code, these all gathered quite a bit of attention and with this attention came a lot of questions. These questions were all… Continue reading
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
Bottom sheets are views which we can display at the bottom of the screen to display content to the user — this may be to prompt further interaction or display some form of other content to the user. These are always anchored at the bottom of the screen and be easily hidden from view by the user…. Continue reading
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. With this comes the face recognition feature, giving us the ability to recognise faces along with the ‘landmarks’ (nose, eyes etc) and… Continue reading
When building Flutter applications we use widgets to construct our User Interface. When it comes to these widgets there is one of two types which it can be — either stateful or stateless. In this post I want to take a look at these different types of widgets so that we can get a better understanding of… Continue reading
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
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
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