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Header Photo by Pearse O’Halloran on Unsplash For our Android clients we have a small component library which is used to shared common visual elements across the different Android applications that we work on. We recently updated our applications to the Material Components library, meaning that our component library itself needed to go through the same transition. Within […]
Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! A few years ago, I created an Android library, written in Java, to display Guitar Chord Diagrams natively. Recently, I revisited the library and converted it to Kotlin, fixing some lingering issues and updating […]
I've been looking for a simple and inexpensive way to host my Kotlin library binaries for some time. Previously I have used JitPack, but there's no Kotlin multi-platform support. I have tried Bintray in the past but found it to be over-complicated. So, I was left with no good solution for hosting my libraries. Then […]
A11yUITests is an extension to XCTestCase that adds tests for common accessibility issues that can be run as part of an XCUITest suite. I’ve written a detailed discussion of the tests available if you’re interested in changing/implementing these tests yourself. Alternatively, follow this quick start guide. Getting Started Adding A11yUITests I’m assuming you’re already familiar […]
Jetpack Compose is an intriguing library but is not without concerns. The Jetpack Compose library provides the ability to create declarative and reactive UIs written in Kotlin for Android. It’s another attempt to avoid XML layout files by allowing the creation of layouts in a DSL-esque manner. The library borrows heavily from cross-platform application frameworks […]
Header Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash When it comes to building android applications, there’s no doubt that we’ll need to include some form of navigation to move between the different parts of our app. With modularisation becoming more and more popular when it comes to android development, navigation becomes a big part of this process. At Buffer […]
When Google released Inbox for Android some 4 years ago, their UI was rad. I was obsessed with the navigation transition, where emails expanded from their list item when clicked, pushing all other items out of the screen. When pulled downwards, the emails collapsed back to their positions. I wanted to recreate this UI. I […]
While working on Dank, my primary goal was to ensure that user generated content on Reddit receive as much attention in the app as possible, while letting the UI take a back-seat. As part of this experience, all images and videos in Dank are flick-dismissible so that the user can browse through high quality cat […]
There are two ways of “linkifying” URLs in a TextView. First, as an XML attribute: <TextView … android:autoLink=”phone|web” /> and second, programmatically: TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text1); Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS | LINKIFY.WEB_URLS); In both the cases, the framework internally registers a LinkMovementMethod on the TextView that handles dispatching a ACTION_VIEW Intent when any link is clicked. This is why phone-numbers open in a dialer when clicked, […]
From the Better Than the Movies series , Vol. 2 by Lynn Painter ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2024 A worthy second-chance romance. In this follow-up to 2021’s Better Than the Movies, a 20-year-old college freshman gets a second chance at his dreams. After the death of his father and his mother’s subsequent physical and […]