Splash the new way: SplashScreen API
You 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… Read more »
Tag: Android
Detecting which app was used to share your apps content
Almost 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…
Firebase Analytics with Jetpack Navigation
Firebase 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…. 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 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 »
Script for compressing images with tinypng API
TinyPng is a nice service which provides you 500 free image compressions a month. And this is nice, since in a typical Android project, you wouldn’t have more than 500… Read more »
PIN Screen Library for Android
Here’s a simple and easy implementation for adding PIN lock support for your Android apps. The library can be themed with your app theme colors. It has smooth animations and… Read more »
New Sensors in Android 5.0 (Lollipop)
I found a few non-documented sensors on Lollipop (Android 5.0) on a Nexus 5. Tried looking for them, but could’t find any documentation on them on. Looks like they are… Read more »
Easy Swipe to Refresh in Android
Recently, Google released a new version of the Support Library, which has an interesting component. It’s called SwipeRefreshLayout. With that, it’s become a child’s play to implement a quick Swipe-to-Refresh… Read more »