Thursday, 21 September 2017

Android Custom Toast Tutorial with Example using Kotlin

Android Custom Toast Today we are going to learn how can we make our own custom Toast. Nowadays a lot of apps are using custom toast to show messages to clients. Sometimes it is requirement of design to make a custom toast. Don't worry, it is very simple and easy to create custom toast in android....

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Android Recycler View Example with Kotlin

Now as google has officially announced kotlin as official language for Android Development, today I am writing a tutorial about creating Android Recycler View with kotlin. Though Android Studio 3.0 is not released yet, but you can get the beta release for android development in kotlin. Visit the link...

Sunday, 10 September 2017

Android Sharing Image Using Share Intent

Today I am going to write about how you can share images or files or other content without saving them to external memory. YES, WITHOUT SAVING THEM TO EXTERNAL MEMORY. This will save you from a lot of unnecessary code and permission in you application.  The hack here is we will save them to cache and then share it. If you want to share you views/xml see the article here which explains how...

Thursday, 31 August 2017

Converting android View to Bitmap

Android View to Bitmap Today we will learn how to convert the android view or XML to a bitmap. During android development sometimes we need to convert the view or xml to bitmap for different purposes. One use case could be to share the the bitmap using sharing intent provided by google. You can...

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Android App Widgets tutorial with Example

Android App Widgets Android widgets are views that can be placed on the home screen and are updated periodically. They could be a great options for frequent user interactions with your application without opening the application. They are basically the broad cast receivers which display some data and...

Sunday, 27 August 2017

Android O (Oreo) - What's New

Android O (Oreo) - What's New Android has officially released the new operating system for android - android version 8.0 named Android Oreo.  And has claimed it to be faster, smarter and sweeter than ever. Now let's go some deep to see what's new in Android O. Here is the official release...

Sunday, 13 August 2017

Android Activity Life Cycle Tutorial with example

Android Activity Life Cycle Importance of Activity's Life cycle Understanding Android Activity Life cycle is one of the most important things for android developers. Using the activity life cycle correctly can avoid your application from: Losing the user data when the screen orientation changes Crashing...