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Bottom sheets in Flutter

posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring Firebase MLKit on Android: Face Detection (Part Two)

posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Stateful or Stateless widgets?

posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring Firebase MLKit on Android: Introducing MLKit (Part one)

posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions

posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring Android P: Fingerprint Dialog

posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring Android P: Display Cutouts

posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring KTX for Android

posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2018 by hitherejoe

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 →

Exploring the Play Billing Library for Android

posted in Payments on January 3, 2018 by hitherejoe

In-app billing is a powerful part of the Android framework that allows us to easily monetise our applications with in-app purchases and subscriptions. Google previously provided us with the in-app billing which allows us to implement this within our apps. However, I remember this never being exactly a straightforward task — we’d have to add a InAppBillingService… Continue reading →

Exploring Firebase Predictions

posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2017 by hitherejoe

At the Firebase Summit this week there were several exciting things that were shared with the community — the one that caught my eye the most was Firebase Predictions. This new service allows you to utilise Firebase to predict the behaviour of users in your app, allowing you to provide personalised experiences that can be used to… Continue reading →

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