Settings screens provide a way for our users to configure our application for the way in which they want it to look, feel and behave. As well as this, it’s also a great place for us to provide links to external information such as privacy policies, open-source licences and more. Whilst we can build these … Continue reading Exploring Android Jetpack: Preferences
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Exploring Firebase UI on Android: Authentication
Firebase UI provides us with a collection of utilities that make it easier to implement common UI components within applications. Firebase authentication provides us a way for our users to validate their identity, without the need to implement all of the back-end work ourselves. hen compared to interacting with the authentication APIs directly, Firebase Authentication … Continue reading Exploring Firebase UI on Android: Authentication
Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews
Header Photo by The Nigmatic on Unsplash Discovering the issue It was the 14th December and we were winding down ready for the Christmas break. Our code freeze had kicked in several days previously and we had shipped an update at that time to get a couple of priority bug fixes before the holidays. We … Continue reading Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews
8 Steps to Google Pay on Android
Within our Android Apps we can use the Google Pay API to plugin a convenient way for our users to checkout in our app, without the need for them to enter any of their payment information (after an initial setup). This brings the user a collection of advantages such as: A centralised place to complete … Continue reading 8 Steps to Google Pay on Android
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 Exploring the Android Fragment Scenario component
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 Android Networking with Coroutines and Retrofit
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 Google Play App Signing
