Till now you have added functionality to just read and open files in the .In this tutorial you will add the features to create/delete files and folders in the files system. Adding menu options to create We will add the options to create a file/folder in the menu options of Read more…
In this tutorial you will add the functionality which enables the user to navigate back to any position in the backstack. This will be achieved by adding breadcrumbs. If you don’t know about breadcrumbs please read about it here before continuing with the article. In short, breadcrumbs are trail of Read more…
Welcome to the 3rd part of the Kotlin File Explorer series. Good job reading files from a path in the previous tutorial. Right now our application takes a single path and displays the file/folders at the path. We want to make our application more interactive. Clicking a folder should display Read more…
Introduction This tutorial series will guide you through building a simple Android File Explorer application in Kotlin. You will develop a file explorer application with core functionalities of creating, deleting, copying and moving files/folders. I assume that you have a good understanding of Android Development and Kotlin language. These tutorials Read more…
So now that you have set up the project, lets start coding and making this File Explorer come to life! (If you haven’t read the first part of this series, please read it here.) Setting up FilesListFragment The first thing you are going to do is create a Fragment named Read more…
So you are here to learn about WorkManager, before actually teaching you how to use it let me tell you what it is and what it does. WorkManager lets you schedule tasks in the background. Say your app needs to sync data or move a file to different folder or Read more…
What are you going to achieve in this widget tutorial? You will make a counter application that will count the number of clicks. You will set up a basic application that shows the number of clicks in an activity and the clicks will keep on increasing whenever you tap on Read more…
In this tutorial you will learn how to make make a two pane layout in Android and thus making your application responsive in design. Be it on phone or tablet, your application should look flawless, one of the commonly used design pattern when on tablet is two pane also known Read more…
In this tutorial you will be learning how to create notifications in Android. You will learn how to make a simple notification. After that you will learn different styles of Notifications in Android. The complete code for this tutorial is available at this GitHub repo , you can clone/download the project Read more…
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…