Single Activity design
Single Activity design was discussed in one of the Google I/O talks ’19 along with Android Jetpack Navigation. The Android team now recommends the Single Activity design as the preferred… Read more »
Android Security – Part II: Android KeyStore and cryptography operations
Android Security – Part I: Persisting user credentials Previous posts in this series We talked about the Android KeyStore system in brief in the last post. We will delve into… Read more »
Android Security – Part I: Persisting user credentials
Do you think your mobile apps are secured? Users are now more aware and suspicious about what apps they install on their devices. And rightly so, since there have been… Read more »
Android Security – Primer: Symmetric and Asymmetric cryptography
The objective of cryptography is to secure the communication or messages between two parties, so that any adversary(malicious) party cannot read or tamper the original communication.
Room Database – Kotlin – Nullable column
You might come across this error when you are using Room database on Android. This happens because the generated schema for your tables mark some of the table’s columns as NOT NULL.
Navigation Drawer in Android – Kotlin
Navigation drawers are everywhere. And implementing them is easy as well. In this post, we will go through all the steps that are required to implement a navigation drawer using Kotlin.
Android Studio 3.2.1 – New project fails to run
I tried creating a new project on Android Studio 3.2.1. In the project creation wizard, choosing the minimum SDK version support as API level 21 (Android 5.0), created a project… Read more »
Code Complexity
HOW TO HANDLE CODE COMPLEXITY IN SOFTWARE COMPANY Working on software solutions is a difficult task and you can get stuck anywhere. Experience surely matters but sometimes even the most… Read more »
Android Multipicker Library
Similar to image-chooser-library, but has some new features. Re-written from scratch. Android Multipicker Library is an open-source project which has the following objectives. Makes it easy and simple to integrate… Read more »
File Upload from Webview on Android
You have a form on WebView, with input type as “file”, and want to allow the user to upload a file from his device. Prior to Lollipop, this was not very… Read more »