Android

derivedStateOf helps to avoid unnecessary recompositions to achieve better performance. In the story we will deep-dive into derivedStateOf API and will see how it is different from remember(key) . We will see When/How we should use derivedStateOf . We will further see comparison between remember(key) and derivedStateOf and in the…

A few years ago, I wrote a function to predict cash payments based on the transaction bill at Qasir. When dealing with cash transactions, it can be helpful to suggest appropriate payment amounts to the cashier. …

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to go sharper. - Eden Phillpotts Unlocking the Power of Initialization: the init block is a magical block that is used to initialize properties or perform any required setup when an instance of a class is created. The…

It appears that Microsoft is moving forward with Whiteboard instead of Calendar Board View. — Project Moca, also known as Outlook Spaces, was a new feature in Microsoft Outlook that allows users to organize their work in a more visual and intuitive way. The feature was transformed into Board View in Microsoft’s Calendar cloud-based web application. I’ve always called in Calendar Board. It’s essentially customizable…

One of the android applications I was recently working on stores a maximum of 10000 rows in the database. This data then gets synced to the server at specific time intervals. To sync the data to the server, the list from the database gets converted into a json string using…

Introduction WebView is an essential component in Android for displaying web content in mobile apps. It allows developers to display web pages, HTML content, and other web-based resources inside their apps. …

Introduction: So, recently I found myself tasked with implementing a feature that involved receiving Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) in an Android Application. To my surprise, there was no official documentation available for this relatively old feature. However, the lack of resources didn’t deter me from exploring and finding a solution. …

In this article, you will learn how to observe the network connection state in Jetpack Compose. Creating the NetworkConnectionState This is a sealed interface that has two objects which will be used to identify the current connection state in the UI. sealed interface NetworkConnectionState { object Available : NetworkConnectionState object Unavailable : NetworkConnectionState…

From the onset, it was clear that Jetpack Compose would provide modern Android developers with a much-needed UI testing framework for writing effective tests. …