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The Future of Mobile App Development: User Experience, Trends and Technologies

Introduction Mobile app development leads the way in innovation in a quickly changing digital environment by constantly adjusting to satisfy users’ shifting requirements and expectations. This essay examines the ever-changing field of mobile app development, looking at new developments in technology, fashion, and user experience. Technological improvements and changing user expectations are causing a rapid […]

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Screenshot testing with jetpack compose

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 […]

Android

Getting started with Flutter GetX – State Management

Introduction When starting a new Flutter application, choosing the right state management approach is crucial. This blog aims to simplify that decision for you. In this tutorial on Flutter state management with GetX, I will introduce you to GetX, a robust Flutter framework. GetX State management facilitates data transfer within an application, triggering state updates […]

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Mastering Unit Testing in Android: A Step-by-Step Guide

Introduction Unit testing is a cornerstone in Android app development, ensuring code reliability, maintainability, and expediting debugging processes. This comprehensive guide delves into the fundamentals of unit testing within the Android ecosystem. We’ll traverse through pivotal components like data classes, repositories, ViewModels, and utility classes, equipped with insightful examples to bolster understanding. Understanding Unit Testing […]

Android

Jetpack Compose: Managing state of UI

In Jetpack compose state determine what is shown on UI. It is a value that changes over time. There are 2 ways to maintain state. Stateless composable: Stateless composable does not have any state or rely on parent state. This kind of composable does not require re- composition of UI. It is used to display […]

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Ways to improve UI performance for Native Android

It is understood that using basic layout structures is an efficient way to create UI. Here, we need to understand that each widget that we add to our layout structure requires initialization and drawing. Below, we will discuss some of the Android API’s to improve UI performance. ViewStub ViewStub is a zero-sized view that is […]

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ANR for TV

Description When the UI thread of an Android app is blocked for too long, an “Application Not Responding” (ANR) error is triggered. If the app is in the foreground, the system displays a dialog to the user, as shown in the figure below. ANRs are a problem because the app’s main thread, which is responsible […]

Android

Handling multiple backstack with FragmentManager

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 fragments, but instead, it is made up of […]

Android

Pagination with Paging3

During the development journey, we may require to show unlimited data as no of users of a particular mobile application grows, so does the data associated with that application. Consider the image application, the user scrolls to the bottom of the screen and wants to be able to fetch more data from the server to […]

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