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 | ## Introduction ## Every Android View has a `layoutParams` property. This property tells the parent ViewGroup how a View wants to be laid out; it is also often used to change the size of a View. In this tutorial, we will learn how to animate Views while modifying their `layoutParams`. … |
| | ## Introduction ## Cards are a common widget for Material 3-themed applications. Expanding a card after the user performs a click action is a very common behavior. While Android can automatically render the new expanded card automatically, we will have to implement our own animation if we want a smooth, … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working on Espresso tests, you might have run into a situation where you need to verify what your app does when an activity is in a specific [**Lifecycle**](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/lifecycle/Lifecycle) state. In this tutorial, we will learn how to achieve this by using the **ActivityScenario** class. ## Goals … |
| | Hello, I am developing android java filemanager app.. I used checkbox to check 1/file.mp4 2/folder(files+sub folders) . How can i add copy paste feature for checked 1, 2 file folder fully at same time ?like -google filemanager app.. Advance Thanks |
 | Hi DW. Anyone who knows how can I achieve this? `List<String> dynamic[i];` The reason why I need this is that I'm creating a dynamic list with nested lists so there's no fixed number of data the list can be, this is inside the `for` statement which receive the json data … |
| | ## Introduction ## In Android projects, **DataSource** classes act as entry points to interacting with local or remote data sources. Their dependencies tend to be HTTP clients, the database, or DAOs, and their dependents are usually **Repository** classes. In this tutorial, we will learn how to provide a fake **DataSource** … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an instrumented test for Navigation Components. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to test Navigation Components. ## Tools Required ## 1. Android Studio. The version used in this tutorial … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to load data asynchronously into a **ListAdapter** (*a subclass of **RecyclerView.Adapter***). ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to serve asynchronous data to a **ListAdapter**. ## Tools Required ## 1. Android Studio. … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to filter and validate Intents fired from the application under test. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to filter and validate Intents in Espresso tests. ## Tools Required ## 1. Android … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Espresso tests, you might have found it hard to make Espresso wait for background tasks to complete before performing other actions or assertions. Fortunately, the classes in the Espresso **idling** package exist to cover this use case. In this tutorial, we will learn how … |
| | Proficient with Flutter Experience with Flutter/Native hybrid development Experience in the development of multiple Flutter projects, including the launch of Flutter projects Email: tianxzhang@163.coma |
 | Hey guys is there a way to intercept shut down to make the user enter password if the state is in the locked state? Its just that I am engineering an anti-theft app and would to disable shut down from lock screen while the device is in the locked state. … |
| | ## Introduction ## Starting from Android 10 (*API 29*), Android places many restrictions on how apps can launch activities from the background. There are a couple of exemptions, which can be found on this [list](https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/background-starts#exceptions). At the end of the list is the usage of the *dangerous* permission `SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW`. I … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Room, you might have run into a situation where you only want to update specific fields of an entity instead of replacing the entire row. In this tutorial, we will learn how to do this in two different ways. ## Goals ## At the … |
| | ## Introduction ## On the android platform, widgets provide a quick way to interact with your Apps. They are extremely useful at providing quick information without the user launching the app Activities themselves. Common use cases for homescreen widgets are weather, email, or banking information. In this tutorial, we will … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to use **ConcatAdapter**. It is a great choice for displaying header or footer at the beginning or at the end of a **RecyclerView**. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to use … |
| | ## Introduction ## Rather than modifying the button widget’s appearance in code, it is possible to do this in an XML resource instead. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create two different types of specialized XML resource files for changing the **Drawable** and the color. ## Goals ## … |
| | Is there a limitation on how many schemas and security objects you can have in one Snowflake database and will there be performance degradation with thousands of these objects? Will splitting the data into multiple snowflake databases help performance?  |
| | ## Introduction ## The Android platform provides many different types of menus to be added to an Android app. In this tutorial, we will learn how to add the most common type of menu, an **Options Menu**. An **Options Menu** is one that appears at the right corner of the … |
| | ## Introduction ## The Android platform provides many different types of menus to be added to an Android app. In this tutorial, we will learn how to add **Contextual Menu**s to our app. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to add … |
| | ## Introduction ## Among all of the Android libraries, Paging 3 is perhaps one of the hardest to understand. Personally, I think the problem with Paging 3 are: 1. Developers need to learn a lot of custom classes before they can understand how Paging 3 works under the hood and … |
| | ## Introduction ## The Android Paging 3 library can operate in two modes, with an offline Room database as a source of truth or without one. In this tutorial, we will look at how to use Paging 3 with a local Room database. This tutorial expands on the previously published … |
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| | I am contemplating writing a speech-controlled music player app for android. I am experienced in writing PC applications, and wrote a rather sharp speech controlled MP3 player using VB in the 1990s. I have also used c, c++, and several other languages in the past, but I have zero experience … |
| | ## Introduction ## Among the many ways to create your own View, extending an existing View is the simplest option. This is because you are inheriting pre-made attributes, drawing, and accessibility features. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create our own custom View by extending an existing View … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to apply Material 3 colors and Dynamic Colors to our App. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to apply Material 3 colors. 2. How to enable Dynamic Colors. ## Tools Required … |
| | Hey guys, I am trying to upload text entered by a user of my app in an edit text to a google firebase application. Tried to find some reference online on how to do this, the article suggested I add Firebase.FirebaseDatabae.net which I added to the project via the Nuget … |
| | ## Introduction ## In Android development, UseCases are classes that encapsulate business logic that are often used in ViewModel classes. UseCases belong to the optional Domain layer in Android apps, so they are not required, but can reduce your ViewModel’s complexity and make your application easier to test. In this … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with WorkManager, it is important to know how to provide input data to your Workers. In this tutorial, we will learn how to provide basic input data to a Worker as well as when Workers are chained together. ## Goals ## At the end of … |
| | ## Introduction ## If your App only need a simple way to play videos on Android, then **VideoView** (`android.widget.VideoView`) might just fit the bill. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use VideoView for video playback in our App. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you … |
| | ## Introduction ## Android provides many ways to perform background tasks, such as Services, WorkManager, or even threads. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a Service for our Android app. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to create … |
| | ## Introduction ## When using a Worker (**from the WorkManager library**), you might have wondered how to inject dependencies with Hilt. In this tutorial, we will learn how to inject dependencies into our Worker. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to … |
| | ## Introduction ## Finding a View in Espresso tests can be quite confusing because there are so many matchers available. In this tutorial, we will learn how to find a View based on its sibling contents. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Room, you might have wondered how to run multiple statements in a single transaction. Running multiple statements in one transaction has two main benefits: 1. Your statements can reuse the same connection. 2. They can all fail together if something goes wrong. Regarding the … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Room, you might have wondered how to describe one-to-many relationships between entities. In this tutorial, we will learn how to do just that. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to define one-to-many relationship for entities … |
| | Hi DW. Is there anyone who know how I can I develop an App that's like TeamView for Android so that I will be able to remotely access the phone via browser on my website? What I want to do is that instead of directly accessing the phone I want … |
| | ## Introduction ## There are many ways to describe relationships between Entities in Room, one of which is to embed an entity inside of another. When embedding an Entity, the columns of the embedded Entity are extracted as member columns of the enclosing entity. In this tutorial, we will learn … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Services on Android, you might have ran into an issue where you would like to: 1. Use a concrete implementation of a Service (*from a built-in or third party library*). 2. Make the Service lifecycle-aware so that you can use coroutines with it. Many … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Room, there might come a situation during bulk CRUD operations that it would be useful to add a Foreign Key to one of our tables. This provides two main benefits: cascading delete (*must be configured manually*) and enforcing data integrity on linked entities. In … |
| | ## Introduction ## If your Android Application uses Room, then you might have wondered how to prepopulate a Room database. In this tutorial, we will learn how to prepopulate a Room database. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to prepopulate a … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with music files, you might have wondered how to load display art from Audio files. In this tutorial, we will learn how to load thumbnails for audio files. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to load … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with Hilt, you might have wondered how to inject ViewModels into your application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to inject ViewModels into your app Fragments. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to inject ViewModels … |
| | ## Introduction ## In Android development, reusable layouts can be used to reduce duplicate code across XML files. In this tutorial, we will learn how to reuse layout files, especially with View Binding enabled. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to … |
 | Hands up if you remember Opera Software, you know the Norway-based developer of alternative web browser clients. In the days before Firefox, Opera was the client most likely to shake up Microsoft and for a while seemed to be doing pretty well in that regard. Then Firefox came along and … |
| | ## Introduction ## MediaPlayer (`android.media.MediaPlayer`) is a popular way to play media files, and combining it with a SeekBar can greatly improve the user experience. In this tutorial, we will learn how to synchronize a MediaPlayer progress to a SeekBar position. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working with a Room database, we are mostly restricted to save data using primitives (*and boxed primitives*). Reference types are not supported right out of the box, but can be enabled by creating additional [TypeConverter](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/room/TypeConverter). If you are familiar with ORM-light frameworks such as Spring JDBC, … |
| | ## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to add swipe-to-remove and drag-to-reorder functionalities into RecyclerView. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to add swipe-to-remove and drag-to-reorder functionality to a RecyclerView. ## Tools Required ## 1. Android Studio. The … |
| | ## Introduction ## When using Navigation Components, you might have wondered how to pass arguments between destinations. We will learn how to do just that in this tutorial. This tutorial also builds upon the [Basic Navigation](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/mobile-development/tutorials/536923/android-native-how-to-use-navigation-component#post2282945) tutorial, so if you are not familiar with Navigation Components, I would recommend you … |
| | ## Introduction ## If you are working on a native Android app using the View system, then you might have come across a situation where you would need to add a Composable (`androidx.compose.runtime.Composable`) into your View hierarchy. In this tutorial, we will learn how to add a Composable into an … |
| | ## Introduction ## When working on Android with Kotlin, you might have ran into property delegates on a few occasions, such as `activityViewModels()` from `androidx.fragment.app` or `remember()` from `androidx.compose.runtime`. In this tutorial, we will learn what property delegates are and how to create them ourselves. ## Goals ## At the … |
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