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 TriStateCheckbox composable, please see the guides here.
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Exploring Jetpack Compose: Checkbox
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 Checkbox composable, please see the guides here.
Exploring Dynamic Feature Navigation on Android
Since the introduction of the Navigation Component on Android, navigating the different parts of our application has become much more pleasant to implement. We’ve been able to better decouple navigation logic from our activities and fragments, along with being able to test these paths with more ease. However, the Navigation Component has only ever allowed… Continue reading
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 Android Jetpack: Preferences
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 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
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
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
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