A.I, Data and Software Engineering
In this article, we will explore some of the best Android image loaders for you. These are some of the most commonly used third-party libraries since Android SDK doesn’t provide a simple image loading solution for developers to use. Generally, you tend to have to implement one yourself or look at third-party libraries. Photo by Tim Gouw on Pexels.com Glide Glide is a fast and efficient open...
Sometimes, we want our app to perform some background tasks under certain conditions, such as Battery level or network etc. With Worker and Constraints, we can conveniently achieve that. The example problem A worker class that prints a message to the console. class MyWorker(context: Context, params: WorkerParameters): Worker(context,params) { override fun doWork(): Result { Log.i(LOG_TAG...
Room provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow fluent database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite. Because Room takes care of several concerns for you, e.g. caching, networking, Android highly recommend using Room instead of SQLite. If you are coming from iOS, the good news is that Room is very similar to the core data in iOS development. The task Field...
Multi-touch gestures are very useful in many common scenarios, such as zooming, panning. For game development, handling multi-touch is essential. This post will give a quick guide for handling multi-touch points. Project structure We create a new project name MultiTouch with Java and add a new class named GameScene as a subclass of android.view.View. The basic GameScene class is as follows...
Mobile Calculator This tutorial, we demonstrate how to use Android Kotlin to build a mobile calculator in just 5 minutes. It is really simple and fun. You can watch a video tutorial at the end of this post. Create an android project with Kotlin From Android Studio welcome page, select “Create a new project” and follow the instruction on screen. Enter the app name, package name and use...
A.I, Data and Software Engineering