What is the Context menu in Android? In this tutorial, we are going to learn on How to display context menu in our android application using Kotlin as a programming language. What is the context menu in android ? Context menu is a short floating menu option which appears when the user long presses on a specific widget on the mobile application. This menu is just like a right click option in windows which is used to perform some quick actions within an android application for a specific widget. Implementation of Context Menu We will be creating a simple application ... Read More

Introduction What is Content Placeholder animation using Shimmer in Android? There are many different ways which we can use within android applications to display loading indicators such as progressbar, horizontal loading bar and many more. Similarly Shimmer View is also one type of loading indicator which we can use to display loading screens within our application. Implementation of Shimmer View We will be creating a simple application in which we will be loading some data from API and to add a loading indicator we will be adding a content placeholder animation using shimmer within it. We will be following a ... Read More

What is Padding in Android? Padding is a space which is present between the content which we have to display and the border of that content. Padding is used to create the extra space within the content. We can add padding for a widget from any of the specific sides. We can add padding either from left, right, top or bottom depending upon the requirement. In this article we will take a look on How to use padding attributes for different widgets within our android application. Syntax android:padding="Size in dp" Explanation − Above syntax for padding is used ... Read More

What is a Video Player in Android? In this tutorial, we are going to learn on How to build a video player in our android application using Kotlin as a programming language. Video player is a widget present in android which is used to access video files within android application. With the help of this video player we can view the video within our android application. Implementation of Video Player We will be creating a simple application in which we will be using a video view to play video within our android application. We will be following a step by ... Read More

What is a Clipboard in Android? In this tutorial, we are going to learn on How to use clipboards in our android application using Kotlin as a programming language. Clipboard the name itself tells us to clip the data to the board. It is basically used to perform copy and paste operations within an android application. Clipboard is generally used to copy the data from one screen of an android application and paste the data in another screen of the same application or another application within an android device. Implementation of Clip Board We will be creating a simple application ... Read More

What is Circular Reveal Animation in Flutter ? Circular Reveal is a type of animation which is seen in many android applications when an image is being revealed in a way by adding an animation to it. In many android applications such as payments applications when a user receives any rewards for making a payment a reward is revealed with a specific animation added to it. In this way circular animation is implemented. Implementation of Circular Reveal Animation We will be creating a simple application for displaying a circular reveal animation in Flutter. We will be creating a button on ... Read More

What is a Circular Fillable Loader in Android? In this tutorial, we are going to learn on How to implement a Circular Fillable Loader in our android application using Kotlin as a programming language. Circular Fillable Loader is an animated ui widget which is used to display the loading screen within an android application using an animated widget. With the help of this widget we will be creating a loader which we will be filling with the help of progress bar. Implementation of Circular Fillable Loader We will be creating a simple application in which we will be simply displaying ... Read More

What are Progress Indicators in Flutter? Progress Indicators are used to display the current progress of the specific task which is being carried out within our android application. If we are loading some data from the internet or making an API call. In that case to handle the loading task we display progress indicators within our application to inform the user that data is being loaded. There are two types of progress indicators which we can display within our application. Linear Progress Indicator − This indicator is used to display a linear progress bar which displays the current progress ... Read More

What are Bundles in Android? In this tutorial, we are going to learn on How to use bundles in our android application using Kotlin as a programming language. Bundle is a class in android which is used to pass data from one activity to another activity within an android application. We can pass data using key and value pairs using bundles. We can pass the data using the key and can use that same key to retrive the data which is passed for that key. Implementation We will be creating a simple application in which we will be simply displaying ... Read More

Introduction Android is one of the most famous mobile operating systems. It is a leader of mobile operating systems having a market share of around 70 %. Due to this learning android app development is beneficial as the users using this operating system is huge. So there is a huge demand for learning Android app development. In this article we will take a look at Basic Prerequisites of Learning Android app development. Basic Prerequisites of Learning Android app Development It is easy to develop simple android applications. We can simply use some basic knowledge and can create simple applications using ... Read More