This is an opinionated article on how I think navigation should be handled in multi-module single-activity projects. Also, this is not “yet another tutorial on Navigation Component”. In fact, I’m not going to use Navigation Component at all but will demonstrate the approach by using our good old FragmentManager . …

Mistakes and learnings from choosing various databases — I’ve been developing an open-sourced VPN application for quite a while. The idea behind this app was for me to learn various new technologies in the world of Android development, so I gave myself a time period of 14 days to bring this idea into reality. …

Android is known for many things, but recently looking at the platform & API releases it is mainly known for its breaking changes. Considering how they notoriously broke clipboard monitoring functionality (OnPrimaryClipChangedListener) to be available only for system apps starting from Android Q breaking over tons of apps which used…

We at Pratilipi Comics are slowly adopting Rust in our work — As developers, the one thing we don’t have is time. When working on a feature, usually we ignore the code-style, best practices & rush to develop these features as fast as we can to complete the task in the given time. This results in buggy, untested code that gets shipped…

Simplified Navigation in Jetpack Compose — I bet most of the readers came here thinking about how can we achieve this using the official Navigation Component, but believe me the issue is currently being tracked on the issue tracker for a very long time (Edit: now possible using Accompanist). This article is not another Navigation Component…

If you’ve seen my previous article about Spring-back animation on RecyclerView, you would notice that I don’t like to depend on any third-party libs… rather I would create my own from scratch. This would definitely improve my existing knowledge & also I loved to do such. This guide would be…

So this is going to be a very easy workflow to achieve a Spring back sort of animation. I said sort-of because a lot of (maybe?) …

This guide is a short explanation on simplifying the use of Firebase real-time database in Kotlin via Coroutines. As far as you know, for every database operation, there is an associated callback that will notify you about the success or failure of the operation. What I really don’t love about…

DevOps, one of the important practices that every developer should follow to extensively optimize their tasks. Clearly, it’s not limited to the topic we are discussing but it’s highly used in the industry. So you may ask what are those practices? Well, there are a lot of uses cases but…