Why it’s important to consider the app’s lifecycle also in Jetpack Compose and how you can easily take care of it — In a previous article, I talked about how to facilitate your everyday life as a developer when it comes to collecting Flows while considering the app’s lifecycle with the help of some handy extension functions. However, that article focused only on handling the collection of Flows in the legacy XML…

Implement automated release signing without uploading your KeyStore file to your repository — Releasing an app to an app store like the Google Play Store is a common task that Android developers have to go through. Because you need to verify that you are the owner of the respective app, you need to digitally sign your APK (Android application package) or AAB (Android…

Avoid Policy Violations and add a test device to all of your apps persistently at once — Understanding the ins and outs of in-app advertisements is essential for implementing ads within mobile apps. Testing your ads ensures that they work as intended. A crucial part of this process is adding a test device to your AdMob account. This ensures that you don’t accidentally click on production ads…

Google I/O 2023 reveals a groundbreaking addition to Android Studio: The AI-powered Studio Bot — While AI-driven Large Language Models (LLM) gain more and more popularity with applications like ChatGPT with GPT-4, Bing’s Chatbot integration, and also through open source models like Stable Diffusion’s StableLM, in the recent Google I/O 2023, a significant leap forward in Android development was unveiled — the Android Studio Bot.

Tips and things for you to avoid from my experience, when writing programming blog articles — What started with one simple idea for a single blog article, became over the last two years a decent habit and a hobby of mine. …

Transitioning from Snapper to SnapFlingBehavior — Last year, we explored a popular use case in Android app development: snapping scrollable items to the center of the screen after a fling gesture. To achieve this in Jetpack Compose, we utilized the meanwhile archived “Snapper” library. Snapper offered a seamless solution for implementing snapping behavior in scrollable layouts…

Enhance Your App’s UI with a Smooth Gradient in Just a Few Steps — In this article, we will learn how to implement a gradient background for your Android app backgrounds using Jetpack Compose. While it has been often seen in the world of web frontends, gradient backgrounds can add a professional and aesthetically pleasing touch to your mobile app, making it more attractive…

Prevent Accidental Ad Clicks and Protect Your AdMob Account with This Automated Solution — Many Android apps that get published in the Google Play store are free to download and use. However, also the development of those free apps costs time and effort for us developers. Not to mention the potential constant costs of server or cloud infrastructures. Using Google AdMob is one way…

Get a rendered version of your project’s README.MD inside Android Studio — One thing when using Android Studio is quite annoying. The Markdown preview you are maybe used to from the standalone IntelliJ IDE doesn’t appear if you open up a project’s README.MD file for example. This drawback bothered me for quite a long time now until I found some time to…