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…
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…
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…
Android has supported setting custom fonts from a long time, but it has always missed out on one feature, setting fonts in xml. It has only allowed using fonts programmatically. Android team has finally resolved this pitfall in Support Library 26. Now you can use fonts in xml, just like any Read more…
While scanning barcode in android is an old topic, some people still struggle to find a easy and reliable solution. So here is a tutorial on scanning as well as generating barcodes in android. We will use two libraries, one for scanning and one for generating. You can find the Read more…
In the previous Kotlin tutorial we saw how to define basic variables using var/val and learned about the basic data types that Kotlin provides. Now we will look at how to implement control flow in the language using if, else and when. If-else Kotlin supports the basic control flow expressions, if and else. If Read more…
Tired of implementing those anonymous interfaces? Annotating those functions with @Override all the time? Well you need to use lambdas. Lambdas were included in JAVA 8. Unfortunately you cannot use Lambdas directly in Android Studio by just changing you JAVA version, but don’t worry a library named ‘Retrolamda’ provides you Read more…