Requesting a Play Store user review for your Android app is one of the most effective ways of getting more reviews/ratings. Now there's an API that allows you to show discrete in-app pop-ups to urge users to rate (or review).…
Working with time in Android has always been tricky. The excellent java.time API is a great date/time API that can be used in all Android versions!…
If your app has anything to do with date/time, at some point you will need to do calculations with dates. Android got you covered; there's a class called Calendar, that is available since API level 1.…
If your app has anything to do with numbers there's a big chance that at some point you will need to visualize those numbers with a chart. In this post, I will explore how to make a simple sparkline chart using MPAndroidChart.…
Code quality is incredibly important for the long term maintainability of any software project. I think static code analysis tools as an automated senior engineer that reviews my code.…
Jetpack introduced a new library for initializing objects during app startup in an organized and reliable way.…
The only way to verify that the app is used as you intended, is to instrument your app with analytics. But what and how do you log? I will cover the basics for Firebase Analytics, but check out the documentation for advanced use cases.…
When designing how to handle network calls in your app, you might think that you are done as soon as you define your interface. What happens when not everything goes according to plan?…