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…
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…