Android, Compose and automated screenshots making | by Oleksandr Berezhnyi | May, 2024
A common thing for a mobile project is to present the look of the app to your users, for example by its screenshots at an app store. Production of such images is exactly the thing I was automating recently and what I would like to…
Kotlin Flow, StateFlow and SharedFlow Android | by amod kanthe | May, 2024
Kotlin flow provides an efficient way to handle asynchronous data in the form of streams. A Flow basically emits data asynchronously in the form streams these data streams then are consumed by A consumer. A flow is a coroutine-based asynchronous stream that can emit multiple…
Understanding IPC in Android. Looking under the hood of Intents | by Ayaan Javed | May, 2024
Now that we have a fair idea of a process and its sandboxing, lets move on to their communication. For our scenario let us take two apps, “Ayaan” and “Javed”. “Ayaan” wants to send a hello message to “Javed”. But as we have seen, it…
Dive-Deep into Android with ProAndroidDev 📲 | by PAD Editorial | May, 2024
Time is ticking! #dcsf24 is around the corner ⏰ This year, droidcon San Francisco is thrilled to announce a DPE track by Gradle featuring some exciting talks! Join us for two days of top-notch AndroidDev talks, where you can enhance your Android skills with codelabs,…
Migrating an Android app to iOS with KMP — Part III: UI and Compose Multiplatform | by Igor Escodro | May, 2024
Speaking about resources, even though we don’t have an embedded way to get resources in the Compose Multiplatform framework yet, we have some great libraries from the community. The one used in Alkaa is the amazing IceRock’s Moko Resources. After a quick setup, Moko Resources…
Rain Games’ Teslagrad Just Got A Price Drop On Android!
Playdigious is selling some of its best games at a discount right now. One of them is Teslagrad. The price of this hand-drawn magnetic puzzle has plummeted from $6.99 to just $0.70! Yeah, you read that right. Interested in learning more about the Teslagrad price…
Protect your code from Gemini in Android Studio | by Katie Barnett | Apr, 2024
The Studio Bot is great, but be sure you are not sharing proprietary code unintentionally Image credit: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/09/studio-bot-expands-to-international-markets.html If you are using Android Studio Jellyfish or later, you may see the Gemini in Android Studio (formerly Studio Bot). You can ask it many different types…
The First 3D CookieRun Game, Tower of Adventures, Opens Pre-Registration On Android!
Devsisters is back with yet another Cookie game. This time, it’s CookieRun: Tower of Adventures. The game is now up for pre-registration on Android and iOS. Previously called ‘Project B,’ it’s expected to drop on June 6th, 2024. What’s Special About This One? In this…
Loop Hero Is Coming To Android Soon, Here’s How To Get It At A Discount!
The roguelike RPG Loop Hero will launch on mobile devices on April 30th, 2024. Conquer a constantly shifting world and rewrite a shattered reality, all from the comfort of your phone. Craft Your Catastrophe Loop Hero throws you into a world warped by a powerful…
Update Your Compass — New Android Orientation API | by Tomáš Repčík | Apr, 2024
Android provides a new Fused Orientation API from multiple sensors Android now fuses more sensors, so you do not have to do calculations on your own. It gives you the bearing and orientation of your device. In specific, the new Orientation device fuses the accelerometer,…