The first article in a series dedicated to the OWASP Mobile Top 10 — a comprehensive list of the most common and significant security risks in mobile applications. The aim of this series is to provide an in-depth description of each risk and offer practical examples that demonstrate the potential…

This article is part of a multi-series on Mastering Android Dialogs Don’t follow official Google Guides Using Coroutines to show and get results from Dialogs easily COMING SOON Intro Callbacks, listeners, onActivityResults — these are spread all over Android APIs, and frankly speaking, it drives me crazy. Every time you want to ask for permission, take a picture, choose a file, or…

Advantages and disadvantages of Dagger and Koin — Ahh, here we go again. The eternal struggle between Dagger/Hilt and Koin. I expect a lot of arguments again in the comments about which one is better, but don’t worry guys, this article was created only to show you the main differences between them. …

Know the pitfalls of Navigation Compose — If you’re reading this article, you’re probably thinking: “Hmm, I wonder what to use to navigate in my Jetpack Compose app. Should I use navigation-compose as suggested by Google or stick with Fragments and use Compose only for rendering views?” In this article, I’m going to talk about my experience…

Navigating in Compose is easy Navigating in Jetpack Compose is pretty simple as you may already know. You just declare a NavHost with all your destinations and a NavHostController that will remember the navigation state and will let you controll your navigation. For example: We’ve just created a navController using rememberNavController() so that navigation…

Hi, today I come to you with a quick tip on how to update your StateFlows safely in Kotlin. Recently a new version of Kotlin Coroutines library was released with a few new extensions functions to help you with StateFlow updates. It all started with this issue: Expose atomic updates on MutableStateFlow · Issue #2720 · Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines qwwdfsad added a commit that referenced this issue May 25, 2021 ...ableStateFlow (#2729) * Add update, updateAndGet…github.com

Last year kotlinx.coroutines library introduced two new Flow types, SharedFlow and StateFlow, which also have their mutable types — MutableSharedFlow and MutableStateFlow. Android community started wondering… Which one should I use now? LiveData or the new types? Is LiveData deprecated now? Let’s answer all of the questions. One last thing before we start ✉️ Android Dev Newsletter If you enjoy…

Scrollable list is one of the most common feature in modern mobile apps. In Android we have two popular ways to achieve this. We can use either ListView or RecyclerView. Do you know exactly how they work and which one should you choose for your projects? Maybe you’re struggling with…

Ways of testing on Android Every good Android application should be well tested to minimize the risk of error after releasing it to the world. The most basic tests for any application are Unit Tests. You must write them to ensure that a particular part of the code is working. On Android we have also…