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…
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…
Compared to JAVA, Kotlin has a different syntax when writing functions. Lets take a look at an example and then break down every line to understand it. [crayon-5b51d1155226a014868028/] In kotlin, to define a function you have to use the fun keyword. After the keyword comes the function name and then the Read more…
In the previous tutorial we saw how to use control flow statements. In this Kotlin tutorial we will take a look at the different types of looping constructs. If you have ever programmed in a language you will be familiar with most of these. For Loop The for loop in Read more…