I am assuming you are aware of the RecyclerView and it’s implementation! Almost every app that we use has some sort of a list, be it a vertical list or a horizontal list. RecyclerView was introduced as a successor to ListView and GridView, and it has been here ever since…

While working on production level android applications, we come across scenarios where we need to make multiple network requests which can be either be chained requests or paralleled requests and we might want to combine their results as well. …

Working with images in Android is one of the most common parts of Android Applications Development. The image may be from the web or from the device's local storage. Loading images into views needs to be effective so that fewer resources are being used, and the views are rendered gracefully…

Android Architecture Components provide guidance on app architecture, with libraries for common tasks like lifecycle management and data persistence. Architecture Components help you structure your app in a way that is robust, testable, and maintainable with less boilerplate code, and via this article, we will be doing the same. …

We talked about creating a Splash Screen the old school way in one of my previous articles. In this article, I will talk about a way to implement splash screen by just using styles/themes.xml. This will eliminate the need to create another activity just to show the splash screen. So…

This will be a quick guide to Git’s most common commands which you will be using on day to day basis. Add Git and Push a Project to Github cd project/ git init # initialises a repository git add …

Almost every application we use stores data for one purpose or another, be it to store images, files, user preferences, etc. One of the most common use cases is to cache relevant pieces of data so that when the device cannot access the network, the user can still browse that…

In the previous article I had talked about the benefits of using View Binding over findViewById(). I highly recommend you give it a read before going through this article. In this article I will be talking about Data Binding and the main differences between View Binding and Data Binding and…

In this article, I will walk you through the steps to run a Kotlin program using the Kotlin compiler. I will start by answering some basic questions in brief. What is a compiler? A compiler is a program that converts human-readable code (Source Code) into machine-understandable code (Byte Code). What…