Brain Tumor, Baby, Public Speaking, Writing, Open Source, and Mountains! — Hello folks, it’s that time of the year (or maybe a little late) where I am supposed to reflect on my past year and make some new year resolution goals. Since I couldn’t write the year in review for the…

Learn how to merge 3 separate RecyclerView adapters into one with ConcatAdapter with this simple hands-on guide. — Instead of making a number of RecyclerViews for each adapter in your app, a class named as ConcatAdapter is introduced in recyclerview:1.2.0-alpha02. This allows you to combine multiple adapters which display sequentially in a single RecyclerView. In this article, you will learn about ConcatAdapter and see how you can merge…

Adopt Your Apps to Handle Android 10 System-wide Dark Themes — Google have introduced native support of system-wide dark themes in Android 10. And with it rolling out in more and more devices every month, the need for Dark mode for your app is on-rise and demand. This article is going to explain on how you can set up dark theme…

Setup Dagger Hilt in Your Android Apps Quick and Fast. — In this article, we are going to make an app that will show you the list of all the universities in a country we want to know about. We will use the Dagger-Hilt approach to implement the Dependency Injection Design pattern and our app will follow the MVVM pattern, so…

A Beginner’s Series on the Detailed Concepts of Constraint Layout in Android — With over 2 billion Android devices running in the world with different sizes and targets like mobiles, tablets, TVs, cars, embedded hardware and so on, Android UIs have become a very impactful part of both Android users and developers. With the emerging need of building complex UIs, Android gives you…

A basic overview of most interesting features in the Android Studio Bumblebee — The latest stable release of Android Studio, interestingly named after an insect “Bumblebee” is 2021.1.1 with Android Gradle plugin (AGP) version 7.1.0. In this article, we are going to cover some of the most interesting features of this release. Let’s start Interactive Previews Over the time, Android Studio has improved a lot…

A quick and easy guide to fastlane for beginners in Android and iOS. — Mobile software development poses a number of unique challenges. The ecosystem is quite diverse: there are over six billion active smartphone devices worldwide, with a wide variety of screen sizes, processors, hardware, OS versions, languages, and features to consider. On top of that, the release process is gated and is…

Perspective on different release processes for mobile apps development. — Developing and maintaining a high-quality, engaging app already takes serious effort and time. But with ever-stricter requirements imposed by the Google Play and Apple app stores, even the release process has become a time-consuming and challenging task for mobile development teams. …

I am still looking for your phone number, so I can talk to you. — Today is Mother’s day and it’s really great. And I wish all the people and their mothers well wishes. I don’t need a mother’s day to write this article, but I feel that today this would make more sense than other days. There’s not a single day when I haven’t…