Learning Kotlin is not as hard as you have thought. But the concepts in coroutine might be a little tough in the beginning. There is too much going on with coroutine at a first glance. But here I will make Kotlin coroutine in Android easy with insightful basics which you might find easy. Let us…
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Learn EventBus, The LocalBroadcastManager Alternative
I have written an article stating the reasons why LocalBroadcastManager is deprecated, read here. And I have suggested multiple solutions among which EventBus is one. Here we will learn EventBus the LocalBroadcastManager alternative. What is EventBus ? EventBus is a simple library which works as a replacement for LocalBroadcastManager. It is created by greenrobot, on…
Get Full Address From Location Coordinates in Android
Today in this tutorial we are going to learn how we can get full address from location coordinates in our Android application. If you are searching about how to get location in Android. Please read this first: How to get current GPS location in Android. And then again come back here. Here we will only…
Android LocalBroadcastManager is Deprecated Now What ?
It’s been quite a while since we have heard the news about Google deprecating the LocalBroadcastManager library. If you have been using it you have to find a better design alternative for your project. Here I am not touching on how to make your architecture better. But what can you use for drop in replacement…
Learn to Implement Run Length Encoding in Java
Have you heard about Run Length Encoding ( RLE ) before ? My guess would be YES, that is why you are here ( DUH! ). But have you actually struggled understanding how the Run Length Encoding works in actual code ? But fear not, I have written this tutorialish article to implement the Run…
Learn Retrofit in Android GET with Example
Here in this article I am demonstrating how you can consume an API using Retrofit in Android with Example. For this specific tutorial we will be using the GET HTTP verb to fetch comic detail from the Xkcd Comics. What is Retrofit ? According to them Retrofit is a “A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java“….
Learn Android Snackbar the Material Design Way
So it’s been quite a while since Android introduced it’s guidelines for Material Design. Even Material 2.0 has come out recently which has many things. But, our main concern here will be implementing the Android Snackbar from Material Design. What is Snackbar ? Snackbar in Android is a new widget API which was made available…
Learn How to Use Custom Font in Android Application
Developing android application is really cool until it’s not. Okay, that was a bad joke. But seriously not all the projects you do can be complete without using some form of custom fonts. So, here is a concise and to the point tutorial on how to use custom font in your Android application. Before we…
Learn how to use shared preferences in Android
Learn how you can use shared preferences in you Android project. This article will guide you with step by step breakdown of how you can use the shared preferences available in Android to store simple key value pairs. What is shared preferences in Android ? To fully understand shared preferences we must first look at…
Android fragment onActivityCreated() is deprecated
Something strange happened while I was starting up a new project. Eveything was working great until I created a new Android Fragment. At first it all seemed okay but as I moved my eyes around I saw that strike through. It could only mean one thing and that is deprecation. And there it was our…