I bet everyone that use Jetpack Compose for a while knows that making a custom modifier is not only possible, but also very easy and helpful, but did you know you can make your own Alignment for Row/Column? During my Jetpack Compose exploration, I found that you can customize basically…

In Android development, modularization of the application is a very common pattern that helps organize the code, increase the readability and make sharing between projects more straightforward. Some say it also decreases the build time, but this is not a part of this article. If you would like to learn…

I need to admit, I totally fall in love with Jetpack Compose. Compose gives me a lot of joy, I never felt so confident with creating views. I always liked to make custom views and even more custom views with custom behaviors like gestures or/and animations. I was really happy…

When you use Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, there are two ways you can use the shared module. The first method is to have the shared module within the one repository with client apps(android and iOS), and the second one is to have all the parts separately, each in a different git…

Jetpack Compose is gaining popularity and I personally think it is the future of Android or even multiplatform development. The library is now stable (version 1.0.1 now), however, there are still some of the view components that are not fully compatible with Compose. For those views, we can use @Composable…

Jetpack compose offers a lot of ready-to-use material design components to speed up and simplify UI development. However, available composables cover the basic usage, these do not perfectly reflect the components that can be seen in the material guidelines. This article will explain how to customize the Slider component from…

There is a lot of articles about coroutines and Firebase firestore, but I found none about the real-time database. I am aware that RTD evolved into a more mature version — firestore, but there is a lot of projects still running on RTD. This article is just for them. The difference The…

The keyboard management is one of the biggest problems of the Android platform since API 1. That was almost 12 years ago. However, there are mentions of a very promising API on the horizon. In Android 11, most probably, we will finally get the control of the Soft Input Keyboard…

Good in-app navigation is essential for the user experience. As is the flexibility that allows you to program to the new requirements. By introducing Navigation Component in Android Jetpack, Google showed a straight way to maintain the flow of our app from a central location. In this article, I will…