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Introduction When streaming services lock content, downloading it lets people watch shows movies without needing WiFi. In the past, systems protecting digital content used static encryption keys. One key was used to decrypt all of the content. As content security gets better, regularly changing the keys used to protect it provides a strong way to […]
Introduction If you’ve ever worked on an OTT application you must have heard such statements being made “The VST must be as little as possible” or “product team is observing spikes in user abandonment in cases where the VST is 2-3 seconds or more”. So, what is this VST and why should it be as […]
If your React Native app suddenly refuses to launch on certain new Android devices — with cryptic messages like: “requires 16KB page size” “failed to map segment from shared object” or even a mysterious native crash before your JS code ever runs …then you’ve run head-first into Android’s 16K page size change. This guide explains […]
Why Migrate? (Besides Google Telling You To😜) Google has spoken—ExoPlayer 2 is old news, and Media3 is the new standard for Android media playback. It’s modular, Jetpack-aligned, and designed for the long haul. If your app still relies on ExoPlayer 2, this migration ensures modern API design, better lifecycle handling, and compatibility with Android’s latest […]
Introduction Android UI development has evolved significantly with the introduction of Jetpack Compose. While XML-based layouts have been the standard for years, Compose offers a modern declarative approach. But how do they compare in terms of performance? In this blog, we’ll analyze CPU and memory usage of Jetpack Compose vs. XML layouts using Android Studio’s Profiler. We’ll also […]
What are the Side Effects of Jetpack Compose? While working with Composable Functions, they often get recomposed on a change of state. When Functions propose it might update some data that is not in the cope of the composable functions. Such Scenarios are called Side Effects. For e.g. Making a network call inside a Compose […]
Introduction In modern mobile application development, performance is crucial. Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications, provides a way to create highly performant apps. One of the core aspects of performance in any app is handling concurrency and parallelism. This is where Flutter Isolates come in. In this article, we’ll take a deep […]
Introduction In Android app development, providing a seamless and aesthetically pleasing user experience depends on how well photos are shown. Although managing the loading, caching, and showing of images can be difficult, libraries are fortunately available to make the process easier. One such library is Coil, an Android image-loading library that is both small and […]
In Part 1, we discussed the fundamentals of annotations in Java and Kotlin, including an overview of what annotations are, the various types of built-in annotations like @Override, @Deprecated, etc., and how they simplify common programming tasks. We also explored the basic structure of annotations, how to define them, and the importance of using them […]