The Cloud Firestore service of Firebase helps to add the database to your app with just a few lines of code and the best part is that this service is also available for iOS and web. Let’s see with Jetpack Compose how can we get started using JetFirestore. Add Dependencies The…

Adding the capability to review your app without navigating to the play store can boost your app rating and review. However, it’s also very important that the In-App review flow remains at a place where users might be enjoying your content. …

Having the capability to download a font will reduce the app size, increases the app installation success rate, and multiple apps can share the same font through a provider that improves the overall system health. …

It’s one of the common UX across apps to provide swipe to dismiss so as to delete the list item or take some other action such as archive. …

Showing the list of items is quite a normal use case for many applications. However, the items can update the content on UI dynamically either by updating its content or its position in a list. Whenever item position is changed for a mutable list inside the LazyColumn, LazyRow, or inside…

Jetpack Compose is the next-generation Android UI toolkit that helps to create UIs with very little effort. Apart from UI components, it also provides a kind of observer pattern out of the box. In Jetpack Compose, this is called State. Whenever the State changes, the composable will be recomposed. …

SharedPreferences are one of the easiest ways to store data locally as it requires very minimal overhead. However, there were certain restrictions or issues with SharedPreferences that should get rectified because of the advancement of the programming language from Java to Kotlin. What were the issues with SharedPreferences? Manually need…

As constraint layout 2.0 is available in the stable version so with that we also have motion layout in the stable channel because motion layout is the sub-class of constraint layout. With motion layout, you can create complex animation with ease as it hardly requires manual coding to create animations. …

Constraint layout have an ability to create a complex layout without increase hierarchy but there were certain scenarios where just having a flat layout makes development further complex. Those problems are sorted out in constraint layout 2.0 and it also offers complex animation using the motion layout. Flow It’s a virtual…