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Modern software projects grow at a fast pace with new features, hot-fixes, refactors and migration, codebases tend to accumulate dead code, unused dependencies, and files that were forgotten but are still sitting in your source code. As a project grows, most of the time unused code starts piling up. As a result it slows down the build and...
What is Screenshot testing Screenshot or snapshot testing is a way to automate the validation of the UI components and widgets. It prevents regressions when updating any existing screen or component. A screenshot testing tool helps render a piece of UI (a screen or component), takes a snapshot of it, and then compares it with the...
Multiple back stack support was added in Navigation 2.4.0-alpha01 and Fragment 1.4.0-alpha01. In this discussion, we will cover supporting Multiple backstacks with the conventional FragmentManager API. We will be using `Fragment 1.4.0-alpha01` or later to implement this. Background The fragment's backstack in Android is not made of...
RecyclerView internally uses a ViewPool to save scrap views which are no longer visible on screen and can be recycled. Normally each recyclerview creates a seperate ViewPool which is limited to that recyclerview only. With the help of #RecyclerView.setRecycledViewPool() we can share a ViewPool across multiple RecyclerViews. With this we...
