Why is there a car in the picture? – Because it has class! Jokes aside, classes are still the building blocks of modern object oriented software design. And of course as the new kid on the block Kotlin has it’s own take on this subject. Declaration Let’s look at the most basic class declaration: class…
The version of the YouTube API service installed on this device is not valid. -> Update YouTube app 🙂
Dependency Add the following to your dependencies implementation(org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-datetime:0.2.0) Usage import kotlinx.datetime.* val today = Clock.System.todayAt(TimeZone.currentSystemDefault()) If you target Android devices running below API 26, you need to use Android Gradle plugin 4.0 or newer and enable core library desugaring. https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime
The easiest way to add external dependencies with local jar files to your gradle is: dependencies { implementation(files(“libs/YouTubeAndroidPlayerApi.jar”)) If you don’t want to add every lib individually you can use: dependencies { implementation fileTree(‘libs’)
Kotlin has its own keyword to create list which are mutable As a child I learned that our solar system has nine planets val planets = mutableListOf(“Mercury”, “Venus”, “Earth”, “Mars”, “Jupiter”, “Saturn”, “Uranus”, “Neptune”, “Pluto”) println(planets) In 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. So let’s remove Pluto planets.remove(“Pluto”) println(planets)
Consider Volley a 2.0 version of Android Asynchronous Http Client. A major advantage of Volley over ASyncTask is that you can do multiple requests simultaneously without the overhead of thread management. Gradle Add implementation ‘com.android.volley:volley:1.2.1’ to your module gradle dependencies. Basic Anatomy of a Volley Request val queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(context) val stringRequest = StringRequest( Request.Method.GET,…
Adding a splash screen to your app can be done in a five-step process Add a background_color.xml <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <shape xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:shape=”rectangle”> <solid android:color=”@color/black” /> </shape> Add splashscreen.xml <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <layer-list xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <item android:drawable=”@drawable/background_color”/> <item> <bitmap android:gravity=”center” android:src=”@drawable/prestissimo_logo_green”/> </item> </layer-list> Add themes.xml <style name=”SplashTheme” parent=”Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar”> <item name=”android:windowBackground”>@drawable/splashscreen</item> <item name=”android:statusBarColor”>@color/pg_green</item> </style> Add new activity:…
In Passing data between fragments using SafeArgs I showed You how to pass data between -well- fragments. This included all basic / built-in types like Strings and Integers. In this part I will show you how you can pass custom objects.
If you want to add another language for your app do the following Create a new folder e.g. app/src/main/res/values-de Add strings.xml into this folder Translate the content The cool thing about translation in android is that you can do it incrementally: when there is no translation for a string resource in a locale Android will…
App Gradle plugins { id ‘androidx.navigation.safeargs.kotlin Project Gradle dependencies { classpath “androidx.navigation:navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin:2.3.5″ nav_graph.xml <fragment> <action android:id=”@+id/action_SecondFragment_to_FirstFragment” app:destination=”@id/FirstFragment” /> <argument android:name=”myArg” app:argType=”integer” /> FirstFragment import com.example.codelabsfirstappwithkotlin.databinding.FragmentFirstBinding val action = FirstFragmentDirections.actionFirstFragmentToSecondFragment(currentCount) findNavController().navigate(action) SecondFragment import androidx.navigation.fragment.navArgs val args: SecondFragmentArgs by navArgs() val count = args.myArg