Jan 22Jetpack Compose — Pulsating Circles AnimationJetpack Compose is fun, and animations are cool. Animations are a little harder to get your heads around. But, once you have got hold of the basics, implementing an animation is pretty easy with Jetpack Compose. After going through the animation APIs and examples, I tried to implement a pulsating…Android2 min read
May 13, 2021Splash the new way: SplashScreen APIYou must have come across Splash Screens on mobile apps, both as a user and as a mobile developer. During my early days as a mobile developer, I mostly frowned at the thought of implementing a Splash Screen. …Android2 min read
May 7, 2021Detecting which app was used to share your apps contentAlmost all mobile apps do some sort of sharing data with other apps. For example, your app might want to share URLs, images, videos or text content to other apps like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and so on. To implement this, it’s quite straight-forward. You create an Intent with the action…Android2 min read
Feb 5, 2021Generating PDF in Rails — Handling special charactersPrawn is a great tool for generating PDFs. And the “prawn” gem works really well for Rails and Ruby. Getting started with might take some time, since it has a somewhat steep learning curve. Working with texts is the easiest. As you move on you will start worrying about formatting…Rails2 min read
Sep 17, 2020Firebase Crashlytics integration with FlutterFirebase Crashlytics is great. It works great with native apps, and the integration with native Android and iOS apps is quite simple and well documented. However, integrating Firebase Crashlytics with a flutter-based app is a little tricky. When I started integrating Crashlytics with one of my flutter apps, I had…Flutter2 min read
Aug 30, 2020Jetpack Navigation and Firebase AnalyticsFirebase Analytics is the default choice for mobile app analytics these days. With a very few steps, the Firebase Analytics SDK for Android and iOS can be integrated within minutes. By default, Firebase Analytics track your screens without any additional code implementations. However, it is designed to only automatically track…Android2 min read
Aug 22, 2020Huawei App Gallery — Should developers care?Huawei is the 2nd largest Android phone manufacturer worldwide, after Samsung (2019 — Wikipedia). Huawei has a broad product portfolio to target all categories of consumers and markets, for every need and budget. Huawei Mate and P series smartphones are its high-end models, while the cheaper smartphones are sold under…Android Apps4 min read
Aug 12, 2020Annoying notifications: Are they still relevant?Are you tired of SPAM? We all get hundreds of spam emails per day. Add too many spam SMSes as well. With so many mobile apps on phone, do you feel you are being bombarded with unnecessary notifications on your smartphones? I have about 50 apps on my Android phone…Android5 min read
Jul 28, 20209 libraries for your next Flutter projectStarting a new project in Flutter? Although the choice of libraries depends on your use case, here are the top 9 libraries that I think you should definitely be comfortable with. — The list contains common libraries that you will probably use in almost all mobile apps if you are developing in flutter. So, let’s get started. 1. cached_network_image (by Baseflow) In almost every app that I have worked with, you will need a library for loading, displaying and caching images from the network.Flutter3 min read
May 14, 2020Code review: 8 step guideFrom my experience, as with any task, you would need a certain level of preparation before you can get started, so that you can make the most efficient use of your time. Code review is the #1 way of improving code quality. (SmartBear survey) It is then, your responsibility to…Programming5 min read
