You might know Kotlin as a modern programming language and as the official language for building Android apps in 2021. What then is Kotlin/Native? Kotlin/Native makes it possible to compile Kotlin code to native binaries that are capable of running …

Introduction There are certain points in your app’s user journey that require the user to provide input before proceeding. When this occurs, a pop-up window appears for the user to interact with to provide their input. The rest of the …

When designing a mobile app, it’s important to create a seamless and fluid experience for users as they navigate from one page to another. This is especially important when users drill down to deeper levels in your page hierarchy. For …

In Android development, UI design happens in an XML layout file. Then, the business logic code is written in a Kotlin or Java file. As a result, a basic activity (a single screen) is made up of two files. First …

Introduction As the content in a mobile app grows, it is useful to start organizing it into pages. To help users quickly get to the page they want, apps incorporate some form of navigation. Some app designs use tabs to …

It’s safe to say every Android developer has used the findViewById() method at some point. The method is used for referencing views in Kotlin or the Java part of an app. However, writing findViewById() multiple times in a huge project …

AsyncTask is an Android API that handles asynchronous jobs. To put this another way, AsyncTask provides a mechanism for handling background jobs. Some processes in an app might be too heavy or involve waiting for responses. It’s not recommended to …

Introduction When designing user experiences for your app, you may decide to show or hide widgets as conditions change in the app, such as in response to user actions or to adapt to available space on the screen. Consider a …

Are you looking to build an iOS app in 2021? There are so many tools to choose from. React Native and Swift are up there in the list of the top tools. Hence, it makes sense to have an in-depth …

Introduction A card is a tool used to summarize an object’s key properties on a small two-dimensional canvas. Even before the invention of mobile apps and websites, cards proved useful in a number of contexts. A few examples of cards …