Quick guide for Kotlin syntax and what it means — Kotlin is an expressive programming language with a strong type system featuring type inference. It has Lambdas, Coroutines, Properties and many other featires that allow us to write less code with fewer bugs. Advantages of Kotlin Smart and concise- Kotlin code is smart and concise. We can write lesser code and hence lesser…

Steps to run tests using Robo test — Steps to run tests using Robo test In gradle clean the project. build->other->clean In gradle build the project and create apk. build->other-> assembleDebug or assembleRelease depending on the build we want to test. apk will be created in <location of project>\app\build\outputs\apk\debug. Open Firebase console open your project -> click Test Lab. This will open dashboard with previously…

The multi-media Networking App — Profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-gullapalli/ GitHub: https://github.com/nikitha2/Social.git Introduction: Social is a networking app similar to Instagram. Every user can create an account and share posts from the phone photos library or change profile photo or search of other users by username. Social is for artists like painters, photographers, singers, etc. to create a…

Surfaces, Bold Graphic design, Meaningful motion and Adaptive design — Profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-gullapalli/ GitHub: https://github.com/nikitha2/EXAMPLE_MaterialDesign.git Introduction App contains of materials that have shape, size, color, text. While designing an app we need to take care of shape and arrangement, color, typography, Iconography. Material design are guidelines provided by google to make our process of designing an app easy, user friendly and…

Introduction: — Android studio usually greats us with a message as shown in fig below to update when there is an update available. clicking on it will update gradle to the latest version. It is always a good idea to be aware on how to do it manual Ashwell…

Must-know facts about Gradle files in android studio — Introduction: Gradle is more of a toolbox than a subject to learn completely. In this article, we will look at some common uses of Gradle in android. First lets look at some basic Gradle overview like creating a task, importing a Gradle.build file into android studio and running it, uses of…

Build variants — Topics covered: build types, build flavors- paid and free, flavor dimensions, filter variants, Create source sets and reusing code, merging resources from source sets, Per-variant dependency Configuration, Adding AdMob to free version and making paid version add free. Profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-gullapalli/ GitHub: https://github.com/nikitha2/Examples_Gradle_BuildVariants.git

Profiles: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-gullapalli/ GitHub:https://github.com/nikitha2/EXAMPLE_ESPRESSO_uiTesting_tea_time.git Introduction: Testing is one of the most important steps in the development life cycle. Writing unit tests for each module is important, as we do not want to break old code when adding a new functionality. There are multiple APIs that help us write efficient tests and…

Profiles: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-gullapalli/ Github: https://github.com/nikitha2/EXMPLE_RETROFIT_with-arch-components.git Retrofit is an awesome type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java built by awesome folks at Square. Retrofit makes it easy to consume JSON or XML data which is parsed into Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs). Implementation: Simple Retrofit implementation is 6 step: