Category: Android

We will continue with our dependency graph from the previous tutorial on Dependency Injection in Android, to learn how to implement DI using the Dagger Framework. By end of this tutorial you will grasp the basics of Dagger, from … Read More

The last native mobile dev tutorial I wrote on this blog dates to months ago, and it was an hybrid-native work/tutorial ! I am back to post here weekly. My easy go-to option is native mobile dev tutorials, though … Read More

This post is the second in the Background processing in Android tutorials series I am currently sharing. So after a tutorial on scheduled background tasks , we’ll follow up with foreground services. You’ll eventually see a demo for what we’ll … Read More

This tutorial is the first in the Background processing in Android tutorials series I will be posting for the following weeks. We will start with background services and follow up with thread pools, and foreground services . We are … Read More

This tutorial is a follow up to the previous one on Implementing two-step authentication through Google authenticator. I provided source code for a sample project that contains both ways for 2FA implemented (SMS and authentication apps), and I explained … Read More

I’ve recently spent a bit more time than I should on implementing two-factor authentication through Google authenticator in Android. The closest I got to getting the task done was when I used this Github repo presenting a server side code … Read More

Here finally comes the first Android tutorial in a good while, as I’ve been writing more on RESTful webservices and N-Tier achitecture based frameworks for the last weeks. So this is being a special tutorial ! Where we’ll see how … Read More

Building an Android ui with tabs and swiping views can be done using the ViewPager class, with eventually the FragmentPagerAdapter or FragmentStatePagerAdapter class.  In this tutorial we’ll create the ui presented by the screenshot below.

CardView and recyclerView are two widgets introduced with Android Lollipop. CardView shows information inside customizable cards, while recyclerView is ‘a more advanced version of the ListView widget’.
In this tutorial we’ll see an introduction of each of these components, and … Read More