Retrofit is a well known networking library among Android Developers, some even consider it as the industry standard. There are many reasons why it is so popular, great support for REST API’s, easily testable, easy to set up and make network calls. In this tutorial I will show you how Read more…
So you have developed an android application and now you want to make some money from your application. You have come to the right place. In this article I will teach you how to integrate AdMob in your application. By the end of this article you will know how to Read more…
What is LiveData? LiveData is part of Android Architecture Components released by Google. It is an Observable(it follows observer pattern) class that holds data of type that you specify. If you have worked with RxJava, it is similar to an Observable. In case of Observables you have to dispose them Read more…
What is Lifecycle and why should I care? Lifecycle is a part of many Architecture Components released by Google to make the life of Android devs a whole lot easier. Lifecycle provides a set of classes and interfaces that let you better mange your application components according to your activity/fragment Read more…
Pre requisite of this tutorial is that you must have knowledge of databases and basic CRUD operations with them. Knowledge of SQLite in Android is recommended but not necessary. This tutorial will get you started with Room in Android by teaching you all the CRUD operations and related details required to use this amazing library Read more…
Have you noticed how some android applications move the content inward when you open the navigation drawer? Isn’t that a cool effect! In this tutorial I am going to show you exactly how you can achieve the same. Below is the effect that we are going to create in this Read more…
Bottom Sheet is a really nice way to create improved UI and UX designs. They are used by almost all big applications out there, be it Uber, Google Maps, Google Docs and almost any other Google application. Android comes with built in support for making bottom sheets. We can make Read more…
Introduction and Comparison to JAVA In JAVA when you want to create a simple POJO class , you have to do a lot of ceremony, write getter/setter for all properties, write equal, toString and hashCode function. While the verbosity of it is good in some cases, writing and maintaining such Read more…
Want to add 360 VR functionality in your android app? It’s very simple, just follow along and your app will have the required functionality in no time! We will use the VrPanoramaView provided by Google in its VR SDK. Steps to add 360 VR functionality in Android App Add the following dependency Read more…
With Kotlin you can do much more with functions as compared to JAVA. Lets explore some of the features related to functions offered by Kotlin. If you are completely new to functions in Kotlin, then please read this: Getting Started with Kotlin – Tutorial 4 – Functions Local Functions In Read more…