While developing for android, getting an idea of the design to choose or what functionality to implement is a hassle. So below are a set of links that you can use to make your life easier when developing for android: 1. Android Official Developers site: The official Android developers site
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Github is one of the most widely used web-based version control systems, based on Git. It is a useful source code management tool, where you can keep track of versions of your app and all the changes between it. Version control helps you keep a track of changes and rollback
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We have already seen the Alert Dialog used to give the users a warning in a simple dialog and for the About and Feedback Dialog. This article illustrates the use of the AlertDialog for requesting the user to rate your app. The RateAppUtil keeps track of the number of times
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Android Studio ships with a useful tool to generate image assets. The Asset Studio can be used to create a launcher icon for different screen sizes with or without backgrounds. This tool will help you generate the icons in the standardized format. Follow the steps below to get started with
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Fragments can exist within Activities and exist within its lifecycle. You can combine multiple fragments in a single activity to build a multi-pane UI and reuse a fragment in multiple activities. You can think of a fragment as a modular section of an activity, which has its own lifecycle, receives
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Alert Dialogs are very useful popups that can be used to ask user for confirmation. We have seen a simple use of alert dialog in a previous article. Apart from this, alert dialogs can also be use to get information without getting the user to navigate out of the activity.
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Buttons are very simple elements in Android which can perform certain actions on click. These actions can be defined by implementing an onClick Listener. The default buttons provided by Android have a grey color with ripple effect but many-a-time, this button does not go with your theme. You can set
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Facebook has become one of the most used platforms over the past few years. A social media platform with around 1.79 billion monthly active users, of which around 200 million are from India. With the evolution of the platform, the Facebook app has also evolved over the years. Keeping
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Alert Dialogs are useful to show warning to users and ask for their confirmations. Simply put, alert dialogs are popups with a title and a message with positive and negative actions. To create an alert dialog, we need to use the AlertDialog.Builder class. You can call the AlertDialog.Builder
A RecyclerView is a more advanced and flexible version of ListView. To create a simple RecyclerView, we need to create a model, view and adapter to initialize the list. Apart from this, a RecyclerView also needs a layout manager to position the items in the list. With a layout manager,
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Bingo – Play and Chat is an android app with the classic Bingo game but with chat. You get to play with your friends and chat with them side by side. This app employs many of the elements of Material Design and showcases multiplayer capability in the classic game of Bingo.
Fragments are useful in replacing parts of activity layout with different layouts. When creating a new instance of the fragment, replace the FrameLayout with the fragment. On clicking the back button in an activity with multiple fragments, it will return you to the previous activity and not the previous fragment.