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Let’s talk about Chaquopy (Python Android Development)
https://youtu.be/rh2Ws5cCpMg
The Definitive Way to Play Videos on Android: ExoPlayer
Mistakes I made in Tech Challenges as an Android Developer
Android Developer 2020 Skillset – What you need to know to get any job / Android Trends
Before the Kotlin era of Android, the development ecosystem was completely different. Not only with the overhaul of a new fresher language to build for the platform with, but with…
(Video) The Best Android Architecture of 2020? MVP vs MVVM vs MVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuWWN6N-_lk
Battle of the Android Architectures: MVP vs MVVM vs MVI
There is no more heated battle in the Android community than the choice of which is the best architecture. Which is the definitive best and the one that EVERY and…
(Video) Android MVVM Tutorial in 3 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGFwp_W5K4
Understanding How and Why: The MVI Android Architecture
MVP and MVVM are both pretty prominent, and nowadays, quite standard in the Android community but one other popular architecture has made a name for itself, and that’s MVI. MVI…
Don’t have a website? Look no further than Litehouse Tech | Professional websites for just £49.99
Over the past few months, I’ve been spending some time starting my very first business, Litehouse Tech. Our whole shtick is we do cheap professional websites for £49.99 with the…
Android Textview Spannable Cheat Sheet
Note that this cheat sheet will explain everything using text.setSpan. The code that around this should resemble something like this. val text = SpannableString(“Hello World”) text.setSpan(…) textview.setText(text, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE) Bold text.setSpan(…
3 Reasons why EVERY Software Developer should have a blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62c4CqvRgnI Transcript 2 years ago, in October 2018, after a rather inspirational trip to France, I decided to start my blog at EricDecanini.com where I talk about all things…
Embed YouTube Videos in Android with YouTube Android Player API
There was a time where we had to use WebView to play YouTube videos in app. It worked, yes, but it was well clunky. WebView isn’t particularly known to have…
Android Studio 4.0: The best Android Studio release yet?
Flutter vs Android/iOS – Hybrid vs Native App Development in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifrsySkpjqk&t=202s Transcript Why Flutter might be better than native Android/iOS development in 2020 A quick history of mobile app development In mid 2007, the iOS mobile operating system was…
Network API List Pagination with LiveData
Ever tried making an infinite scroll list that loads data from a network API? You know, like you see on social media feeds like Facebook and Twitter? You can’t load…
(Video) Running Python Scripts on the Android Frontend with Chaquopy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-35VC6DQ_g Transcript: Python is an amazing language for quite a number of reasons. It’s easy to pick up and learn, even as a first programming language, large applications can…
Understanding Lifecycle-Aware Components from Android Jetpack
Goal Replace manual handling of callbacks and potential memory leak sources with Lifecycle-Aware Components. Problem An Activity or Fragment may include callbacks such as network calls or heavy computational calls…
Getting to Grips with View Binding on Android
First we had findViewById. Then we had Butterknife. Then came Kotlin Synthetic. Now, an even better way of referencing our XML views takes the stage. View Binding, not to be…
Parsing Complex Api Structures with Deserializers on Android
Consider yourself lucky if you have an API that gives you all the data you want in your app and nothing else. Unfortunately, that’s rarely ever the case. Chances are,…
Introduction to the MVVM Architectural Pattern on Android
MVVM is unarguably the best architectural pattern for most Android apps in 2020. The Model-View-ViewModel architecture uses these 3 components to create an architecture that features many strengths over its…