The SOLID principles are a set of guidelines that can help developers create software that is easier to maintain and extend over time. These principles can be applied to any type of software development, including Android app development. …

Since its debut in November of 2019, GitHub Actions has demonstrated its dependability in a production setting. GitHub actions ultimately allow us to establish a workflow for our apps to automatically build, test, and deploy them, just like many other CI/CD systems. The integration of GitHub Actions with GitHub is…

Code review is the process in which developers critique each other's work after it has been done, I used to groan every time people talked about code reviews. I mean why wouldn't I? The tests had been set up, QA had approved them, and the product owners were happy. …

I have been creating Android applications for about 10 ten years or so now. I have blindly utilised Gson for serialisation and deserialization in every single small or large Android app I have produced. Gson appeared to be perfect and almost know what I was thinking. …

An Android Splash Screen is the first screen that is visible to the user when the app is launched. In this post, we will create an animated splash screen with the help of Lottie (an awesome animation library for Android) and Navigation-Compose. Adding Dependencies Let us add Navigation-Compose and Lottie to your…

In this post we will build a small clone of the classic snake game using Jetpack Compose. We will focus on the building the game loop and manage the state of the game and draw the basic shapes on the screen. …

With the introduction to Compose Google changed the way we wrote UIs in android. This lead to a bit of learning curve for developer meaning not all would start at the same page. Which is what happened here at SuperShare. So how do we manage to keep code in check…

This has been an ongoing topic of discussion in the realm of Android development for a long time. Today I’m going to help you make a decision on which of these is best suited for your use case. What is LiveData? LiveData was introduced by Google as a part of their Android Architecture…

Today I’m going share with you my development setup which I find quite nice after working with Android for over 10 years. I find my setup to be extremally efficient and simple to setup. Platform — Mac My default go to platform for any sort of development is a Mac. I’m well aware…