Android Developer Tutorials
The intro before the intro. Like every year I watched the keynote & developer keynote with excitement, taking my usual notes and reactive thoughts as it streams. This year though instead of myself turning those…
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The forEach loop, are you using it without thinking? In Kotlin, empirically forEach is often the go-to loop, it’s pragmatically close at reach in the IDE auto-complete, but is it always the right choice? This…
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This post gets you started with the new Gemma 3 model for on-device inference. Giving you the simplest steps to get started with AI on Android. Gemma 3 1B is a new model size in the…
This blog post explains how to create Room DAOs specifically for your Android debug build. These debug-only DAOs enable you to implement developer-centric features without affecting your production app. Keeping your codebase clean is essential…
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When introducing 3rd party libraries (like BugSee), often their configuration is dumped into your build.gradle/application:onCreate and mixed with everything else. This post shows you how to have cleaner, more maintainable code by creating your own…
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Learn how to have runtime control of all parts of an animation or image, the color, opacity, scale, rotation .. any property within your SVG animation using Lottie Dynamic Properties. This tutorial is going to…
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This artical is a quick introduction into setting up the Gemini API client SDK on Android to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on images. Let’s jump straight in: The Gemini API gives you access to…