You’ve probably come across those apps that can pull off a neat trick — changing their app icon, perhaps on your birthday, and then seamlessly switching back to the regular one. It’s the kind of feature that piques your curiosity, making you wonder, ‘How on earth do they do that?’…

Emojis have become a part of our communucation through messages. Nearly everyone uses them nowadays. Android development team is also aware of this and they recently provided a Emoji Picker for Android. The library, let us implement a Emoji Picker in our app with just few lines of code. …

In modern Android development, most projects are multi-module. Basically, developers build smaller pieces and then combine them to achieve the requirements of the project. Moreover, as suggested in the Android documentation, there are multiple types of modules that can be used in a project, such as feature modules, data modules…

In Android development, developers sometimes need to use WebView in their projects for various reasons. WebView already exists on the Android XML side. WebView already exists in Android Xml side but it does not exist in Jetpact Compose. However, there is a workaround to use WebView in Jetpack Compose. In…

No wonder how commonly we use TextViews in Android ( in XML projects, of course), and it is also so common to style them with colors, fonts and sizes, etc. We can achieve this by using styles and themes, as we know. But what if you want to change only…

Contracts in programming are agreements between different parts of the code. They allow a function to explicitly describe its behavior in a way that is understood by the compiler. Kotlin contracts are an extension of this concept that was introduced in version 1.3.60 of Kotlin. …

Android 14 brings a slew of new features and updates to the platform. From improvements to foreground services and alarms to grammatical inflection and font scaling, Android 14 has something for every developer. I have listed some of the most important changes below. …

In our previous articles, we discussed the deprecation of the onBackPressed method and the introduction of the onBackPressedDispatcher in Android’s Jetpack Compose library. As we continue to explore the new features and changes in Jetpack Compose, it’s important to understand how to handle back presses from directly composables. In this…

Glide library is a popular image loading and caching library for Android.The ability to use placeholders while loading images is one of its greatest advantages.In this article, we will take a closer look at how to use GIFs as placeholders in Glide. Showing GIFs in Glide is quite simple. You…