Simplify Compose UI testing with Robot Test Architecture | by Thaw Zin Toe | Mar, 2024
When people see UI tests, it is so expensive to compose UI testing because our design always changes frequently and is unstable. But the best application needs to test UI testing and we need to check Happy Flow testing with QA in the Jira ticket…
🎯 Ready, Aim, Release: Android app rollout tips | by Nikos Linakis | Mar, 2024
There is a wide misconception that once you finish your dev work (add as many pre-release steps as you like here: QA, UAT, etc) you can release your mobile app and all your users will get your shiny new version. This assumption comes from the…
Styling Internationalized Text in Jetpack Compose | by Burak Karaduman | Mar, 2024
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash In today’s world, many applications require users to accept their terms, conditions, privacy policy, distance sales contract and more. These documents often contain a clickable text in a sentence and it plays a role in navigates to agreement screen, display…
Access and Refresh Tokens for Server and Client-Side Authentication and Authorization | by Raheem Hameed | Mar, 2024
Implement access and refresh token for Ktor and Android Photo by Onur Binay on Unsplash Thought Process Some time ago, I implemented and wrote about how to perform user registration and authentication in Ktor here. I didn’t implement the refresh token mechanism because it wasn’t…
How Kotlin Annotations Work. Exploring the three main mechanisms… | by Sherry Yuan | Mar, 2024
Photo by Kelsy Gagnebin on Unsplash Android developers can build complex apps with annotations scattered throughout, such as @Provides from Dagger or @ColorRes from AndroidX, without fully understanding how they work; they can almost feel like magic. This article will unshroud some of the magic…
Fun with the circle shape in Compose | by Justin George | Mar, 2024
I noticed that Facebook is using a horizontal list view with circled-shaped items to showcase the mutual friends of a user. Inspired by this, I aim to craft a similarly sleek interface using Jetpack Compose. 🥷🏻 Let’s begin. We would LazyRow as the container, for…
How to safely update state in your Kotlin apps | by Nek.12 | Mar, 2024
Look, we are a long way ahead now! Here’s what we achieved with our paradigm shift: First, we reduced the number of states and state transactions drastically by using UDF and reactive streams, freeing us from the quirks of state changes. Then we unified our…
Personalizing Accessibility with Settings | by Eevis Panula | Mar, 2024
When users have different, even conflicting, needs for access, what should you do? For example, if one user needs less contrast while the other needs more, how do app developers provide the best experience for all? The truth is that it’s often not possible without…
String resources API for Compose Multiplatform | by Gérard Paligot | Mar, 2024
Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash With Compose Multiplatform 1.6, Jetbrains finally provides an official solution to declare string resources for every supported platform in Kotlin Multiplatform projects. As described in the official blog post, you’ll be able to create composeResources, a new resource set,…
Publishing Android, Java or Kotlin Libraries with AWS CodeArtifact — Complete Guide | by Tosin Onikute | Mar, 2024
Publish & Consume Libraries with CodeArtifact Photo by Pixabay on Pixels.com If you’re looking to publish and consume your Android, Java or Kotlin libraries securely, AWS CodeArtifact offers a robust solution. CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service by Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing…