After the breakup of the Google Play Store library, it is now easier and lighter than ever to integrate its different features by themselves. These features can serve as your app’s interface with the Google Play Store, and allow you to take a series of actions directly inside the app…

What is an AVD? Starting with Android Lollipop 5.0 API 21, the introduction of the AnimatedVectorDrawable class — and its backward-compatible counterpart — brought with them a new and powerful way of defining animations in the Android ecosystem through the use of XML. These components can be defined in one .xml …

With the first official release of the androidx.core.splashscreen library, there is no better time to jump into Android’s latest opinionated trend which is making the splash screen not only mandatory but semi-uniform across apps. A Day in History Starting with Android 12, a new feature was added where all applications would now have a…

As a modern Android developer, sometimes I find myself with the need of wanting to run some small snippet of code. For these kinds of situations, the lesser-known Kotlin Playground is a great option to try out code on the fly. What is the Kotlin Playground? Initially published about 5 years ago, the Kotlin Playground…

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A few weeks ago, my team and I encountered an unexpected error when we attempted to integrate one of the new core Google Play Store library interfaces into our app. I was mesmerized by this error, as it didn’t make sense why in the world would we have two…

Since the introduction of Android 12 (SDK 31) last Fall, some Android devices have been blessed with a new initiative at Google called Material You. …

As some of us might know, Firebase will finally be deprecating its support to the old Crashlytics SDK provided by Fabric this week after years of proclaiming that they were slowly taking over. …