How to Avoid the Tutorial Trap and Become an Expert in Any Skill You Want to Learn — I am noticing a lot of developers (mostly juniors) are stuck in a tutorial trap aka tutorial hell. They keep finishing as many tutorials and courses as they can thinking they are learning and improving their skills. But the actual teacher for them is not the instructor who is in…

Learn how to secure your API keys, Base URLs, and other sensitive data of your app through native C++ code. — Written by Wajahat Karim and Muhammad Ali This article will guide you on how to secure your API keys, Base URLs, and other sensitive data of your app. Often times for Android apps, you want to keep secrets away from hackers or from any person who wants to reverse-engineer the…

Security is a very important topic and has to be taken seriously when developing Android apps. In this article, you will learn how you can encrypt SharedPreferences in Android with Jetpack’s Security library. — Written by Wajahat Karim and Saif Khan Security is a very important topic and has to be taken seriously when developing Android applications, especially if sensitive data is stored on the device. In this article, we will learn how we can encrypt our Shared Preferences in Android using Jetpack’s Security…

Learn about Singleton Pattern, Airlift Shutdown, and how Social Media can depress you along with some amazing Jetpack Compose articles. — 😍 Howdy people! Welcome to the #Time with Wajahat. This week, I have been pretty busy and sort of on-vacation in the Eid 2022 holidays. It was going great, until I got aware of a sad news that Airlift Technologies is closing all operations. …

Learn about the basic concepts of Design Patterns, their advantages, and types. Also see an example of the Singleton Design pattern in Kotlin for Android — Written by Wajahat Karim and Muhammad Ali In this article, you will learn about the basic concepts of Design Patterns, their advantages, and types. You will also see an example of the Singleton Design pattern in Kotlin for Android. Design Patterns

Learn about the basic concepts of DataStore in Android Kotlin and why you should stop using SharedPreferences in Android and utilize the Google’s new DataStore API — Written by Wajahat Karim and Muhammad Ali To store some little amount of data in Android like phone number, name, or a person, etc. Android developers use SharedPreferences API. But due to security and asynchronous transactions purpose, Google recommends using DataStore instead. In this article, we will discuss the disadvantages…

To give feedback on Play store, Google provides an In-App Review API for letting users give their rate review directly from the Android app. — Written by Wajahat Karim and Saif Khan When app developers publish apps on stores like Google Play or App Store etc., their apps are given reviews by users. These reviews are an important part that lets the developer know how much the users are enjoying their app. But users often…

Learn how to merge 3 separate RecyclerView adapters into one with ConcatAdapter with this simple hands-on guide. — Written by Wajahat Karim and Muhammad Ali 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. …

Adopt Your Apps to Handle Android 10 System-wide Dark Themes — Written by Wajahat Karim and Saif Khan 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. …