A brief summary and the effects of the recent changes to your Android apps in the Google Play Store — If you have a Google Play Developer account you probably received the recent email about Google Play Developer Program Policy Update on July 27, 2022. In this article, we take a brief look over the changes and newly introduced policies, how they affect your app and what you need to…

Easy integration tests with Spring Boot, Testcontainers and Kotlin — When writing JUnit tests for Spring Boot applications, typically when accessing the data layer, we’d need to mock our repository methods. But what if we could use an actual instance of our respective database in our tests and interact with it instead, just how we’d do it in a production…

Partially release app features without a full app update — When developing new features for your Android app, we sometimes don’t want to directly release all of the newly created content but only parts of it. Maybe we have a seasonal feature and only want to distribute it for a dynamic amount of time? In some cases, we even want…

No longer lose your Android app’s state on process recreation — To update our UI state in Android Jetpack Compose, we need to mutate the composable’s respective state which is often represented by specific objects. Each time we update our state, a recomposition gets executed and the respective state gets rendered and visually presented on the screen. But what if we…

A brief summarization of some interesting topics to get an impression of what was talked about at the conference — Since Droidcon started with its first conference in Berlin in 2009 it has meanwhile grown into a conference series that takes not only part in Berlin but also in many other countries. The Droidcon Berlin 2022 is over and once again I had the luck to be able to attend…

Custom extension functions for collecting Flows are no longer needed — In one of my previous articles, I showed you how you can implement your own extension or helper functions to safely collect from Flows while considering the lifecycle of your application. How To Collect Flows Lifecycle-Aware In Jetpack Compose Why it’s important to consider the app’s lifecycle also in Jetpack Compose and how you can easily take care of itproandroiddev.com

Add a shadow to your Text composables with no effort — When it comes to styling text components, adding a drop shadow is a well-known effect widely used in various graphics, apps, and websites. The drop shadow effect gives the illusion that the respective object or text is elevating above the underlying content. In this article, we take a look at…

Easily reduce your Android app’s startup time — A common problem when it comes to optimizing the performance of an Android app is the initial startup time. When you have an app that needs to initialize a variety of components that rely on ContentProviders, the initial app startup time can significantly increase. …