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## Introduction ## The Android platform provides many different types of menus to be added to an Android app. In this tutorial, we will learn how to add **Contextual Menu**s to our app. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to add …

## Introduction ## The Android platform provides many different types of menus to be added to an Android app. In this tutorial, we will learn how to add the most common type of menu, an **Options Menu**. An **Options Menu** is one that appears at the right corner of the …

## Introduction ## The Android Paging 3 library can operate in two modes, with an offline Room database as a source of truth or without one. In this tutorial, we will look at how to use Paging 3 with a local Room database. This tutorial expands on the previously published …

## Introduction ## Among all of the Android libraries, Paging 3 is perhaps one of the hardest to understand. Personally, I think the problem with Paging 3 are: 1. Developers need to learn a lot of custom classes before they can understand how Paging 3 works under the hood and …

## Introduction ## In this tutorial, we will learn how to apply Material 3 colors and Dynamic Colors to our App. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to apply Material 3 colors. 2. How to enable Dynamic Colors. ## Tools Required …

## Introduction ## Among the many ways to create your own View, extending an existing View is the simplest option. This is because you are inheriting pre-made attributes, drawing, and accessibility features. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create our own custom View by extending an existing View …

Hey guys, I am trying to upload text entered by a user of my app in an edit text to a google firebase application. Tried to find some reference online on how to do this, the article suggested I add Firebase.FirebaseDatabae.net which I added to the project via the Nuget …

I am contemplating writing a speech-controlled music player app for android. I am experienced in writing PC applications, and wrote a rather sharp speech controlled MP3 player using VB in the 1990s. I have also used c, c++, and several other languages in the past, but I have zero experience …

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## Introduction ## In Android development, UseCases are classes that encapsulate business logic that are often used in ViewModel classes. UseCases belong to the optional Domain layer in Android apps, so they are not required, but can reduce your ViewModel’s complexity and make your application easier to test. In this …

## Introduction ## When working with WorkManager, it is important to know how to provide input data to your Workers. In this tutorial, we will learn how to provide basic input data to a Worker as well as when Workers are chained together. ## Goals ## At the end of …

## Introduction ## If your App only need a simple way to play videos on Android, then **VideoView** (`android.widget.VideoView`) might just fit the bill. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use VideoView for video playback in our App. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you …

## Introduction ## Android provides many ways to perform background tasks, such as Services, WorkManager, or even threads. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a Service for our Android app. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to create …

## Introduction ## When using a Worker (**from the WorkManager library**), you might have wondered how to inject dependencies with Hilt. In this tutorial, we will learn how to inject dependencies into our Worker. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to …

## Introduction ## Finding a View in Espresso tests can be quite confusing because there are so many matchers available. In this tutorial, we will learn how to find a View based on its sibling contents. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. …

Hello there. I'd like to develop a mobile app with cutting-edge functionality. A rider app, a passenger app, and an admin portal are all included. It is necessary to register and edit your profile. Can someone provide me with a cost estimate for app development? or else any other way …

I'm broadcasting an intent in my app and receiving it with a broadcast receiver. I can handle the broadcasting and receiving. No problem with that. However, I want to register the receiver completely programmatically instead of doing it in the manifest file. Notice, that in the manifest file, there are …

## Introduction ## When working with Room, you might have wondered how to describe one-to-many relationships between entities. In this tutorial, we will learn how to do just that. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to define one-to-many relationship for entities …

## Introduction ## When working with Room, you might have wondered how to run multiple statements in a single transaction. Running multiple statements in one transaction has two main benefits: 1. Your statements can reuse the same connection. 2. They can all fail together if something goes wrong. Regarding the …

## Introduction ## When working with Services on Android, you might have ran into an issue where you would like to: 1. Use a concrete implementation of a Service (*from a built-in or third party library*). 2. Make the Service lifecycle-aware so that you can use coroutines with it. Many …

## Introduction ## There are many ways to describe relationships between Entities in Room, one of which is to embed an entity inside of another. When embedding an Entity, the columns of the embedded Entity are extracted as member columns of the enclosing entity. In this tutorial, we will learn …

## Introduction ## When working with Room, there might come a situation during bulk CRUD operations that it would be useful to add a Foreign Key to one of our tables. This provides two main benefits: cascading delete (*must be configured manually*) and enforcing data integrity on linked entities. In …

## Introduction ## When working with music files, you might have wondered how to load display art from Audio files. In this tutorial, we will learn how to load thumbnails for audio files. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to load …

## Introduction ## If your Android Application uses Room, then you might have wondered how to prepopulate a Room database. In this tutorial, we will learn how to prepopulate a Room database. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to prepopulate a …

I have been trying to connect to watermelonDB however i keep getting this error TypeError : null isnot an object (evaluating 'DatabaseBridge[methodName]') I looked all over the network but couldn't find a solution the problem that i am not generting or writing the DataBaseBridge it should be generated automatically with …

hi there i have a python http post request with no request but theres the code: requests.post("https://api.i66v1xg2.org/v3/moderate/+" + userid + "/") i dont know how to make it in java and in okhttp3 help pls thanks

## Introduction ## When working with Hilt, you might have wondered how to inject ViewModels into your application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to inject ViewModels into your app Fragments. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to inject ViewModels …

## Introduction ## In Android development, reusable layouts can be used to reduce duplicate code across XML files. In this tutorial, we will learn how to reuse layout files, especially with View Binding enabled. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have learned: 1. How to …

In my hometown, I'm a budding entrepreneur with a cab business that I'd want to develop to meet current market demands. It would be more expensive to create a mobile app for both iOS and Android. As a result, I resorted to Android to build my own taxi booking application. …

## Introduction ## When working with a Room database, we are mostly restricted to save data using primitives (*and boxed primitives*). Reference types are not supported right out of the box, but can be enabled by creating additional [TypeConverter](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/room/TypeConverter). If you are familiar with ORM-light frameworks such as Spring JDBC, …