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Exploring Jetpack Compose: Padding Modifier
This post is sponsored by Practical Jetpack Compose. When it comes to the composition of composables, we may want to apply additional spacing to a composables size constraints. For this we can utilise Padding – padding adds this additional space to the specified sides of the composable, essentially making it larger in size. This area… Continue reading
Exploring the Google Play In-App Review API
When it comes to the Google Play store, app ratings and reviews are a pretty important marketing tool – they can have a huge influence on whether someone downloads our app, so ensuring that we do not miss out on good reviews is important. However, I’ve felt like there has always been a lot of… Continue reading
Exploring Jetpack Compose: Radio Button
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Exploring jetpack Compose: Switch
If you’re enjoying my posts on Jetpack Compose, check out some details on the book I’ll be writing on Compose! Important: The contents of this article have been deprecated with newer releases for Jetpack Compose. If you’re looking to learn about the Switch composable, please see the guides here.
Exploring the Android 11 Developer Preview: Permission Changes
That time of the year has come, a new Android version is on the horizon! As announced in a blog post earlier this week, the first developer preview of Android 11 is now available – along with details on some of the changes that are happening. With this announcement come some changes to how the… Continue reading
Exploring the Android Fragment Scenario component
I’m always curious about what tools and features are coming up next in android — and to be sure I don’t miss out on any of this I like to keep an eye on release notes over on the android developer site. Two that caught my eye recently where the fragment-1.1.0-alpha01 and fragment-testing-1.1.0-alpha01 releases, within the testing… Continue reading
Android Networking with Coroutines and Retrofit
Recently I’ve been reading up on, watching talks on and been generally getting more curious about Kotlin coroutines. Now that they are stable with the release of Kotlin 1.3 it felt like about time to start diving in an play with converting my existing RxJava code over to using coroutines. In this post, we’re going… Continue reading
Exploring Google Play App Signing
When distributing our Android Applications we’ve always been required to sign our APK using a keystore for our application — this has allowed us to ensure that only the developer(s) of our app are able to upload updated APKs to the play console. However, because this keystore acts as a fingerprint to the lifecycle of our application — if… Continue reading
Exploring Android P: Enhanced Notifications
With Android P now out in the wild, there are a bunch of new features and APIs which have become available for us to make use of in our applications. Some of these new features fall under the notification APIs, allowing us to create more contextual and detailed notifications for our applications. In this post,… Continue reading