Article contains list of Android Open-Source apps that are fully featured and ideal for learning different techniques. — This list of open-source Android apps may come in handy if you have grasped all necessary concepts to develop Android application and you think you are ready to work on an application that follows industry standards. …

Use Kotlin’s standard function `runCatching` API to handle errors from standard or coroutines functions. — I am trying to learn Kotlin coroutines, and was trying to learn more about how to handle errors from suspended functions. One of the recommended way by Google is to create a “Result” class like the following: sealed class Result<out R> { data class Success<out T>(val data…

Trick on how to create Android custom indeterminate progress bar behaviour using ImageView and Animated Vector Drawable — Android’s ProgressBar widget comes with lot of customization controls and flexibility to set custom animated drawable. However, setting AnimatedVectorDrawable is not one of the option. So, this is a quick trick on how to use custom ImageView to create indeterminate progress indicator using Animated Vector Drawable (AVD).

Tips on how to take full control and create your own custom-view to add syntax highlighting support in your Android app. — Android and it’s community has evolved a lot over past decade. Now a days we can find open-source libraries to do almost anything — Zoomable ImageView, CameraX, RecyclerView Sticky Header, Tooltip, and many more. Syntax highlighting is one of them and there are few libraries for that too. …

Medium has launched a sister site called MOMENTUM that is in dark mode. Here I talk about how you can possibly have dark-mode now. — I have love and hate relationship with Medium with a much higher percentage towards love 🥰. I have been craving for 🌗 dark/night-mode support for the web site for a long time. Thankfully they already support dark-mode on the Android & iOS app 😍.

A quick guide on how to set up Github Actions CI workflow to automatically post APK to Firebase App Distribution from your Android project. — This is a quick guide on how you can easily set up Github Actions CI workflow to automatically post APK to Firebase App Distribution on merge to release or master (or soon to be known as main) branch. Firebase already has an excellent guide 🏆 on how to set up…

A short article showcasing how to build Muzei Live Wallpaper plugin for Android using two simple steps. — I have a hobby of taking a lot of pictures, and some of the pictures do turn out nice (at least to me 😊). So, I’ve also created a web portal to showcase those pictures 🖼️. As an Android engineer, I was aware of Muzei Live Wallpaper app created by…

On April 14th, 2020 GitHub announced a major change in their plans to allow free private repositories. It’s a good time to make use of… — On April 14th, 2020 GitHub announced a major change in their plans to allow free private repositories. It’s a good time to make use of their free CI/CD known as “Actions”. Private repositories have 2000mins/month and public repositories have unlimited minutes (see pricing).

Recently I have had to create UI that required user tappable/clickable text in the same text view. I know this is kind of unusual as the… — Recently I have had to create UI that required user tappable/clickable text in the same text view. I know this is kind of unusual as the touch target for the view will likely be smaller compared to a button with no outline style. However, I wanted to share a quick Kotlin extension function that is dynamic and well tested.