A Step-by-Step tutorial to integrate Firebase Realtime Database and User Authentication into your Android app with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose — This is part of the Firebase tutorial series: Part 1 — Simple Firebase Sign-in UI Demo App Part 2 — Integrate Firebase Realtime Database and User Authentication into your Android App This article is the continuity of the previous article, in which we learned how to create a simple Firebase…

Steps-by-steps guide to add spotless code formatter to your Android project for both Kotlin script (KTS) and Groovy build Gradle files — I have been seeing this spotless in many open-source codes, and it turns out it is a pretty popular coding style plugin for the Gradle build system used in Android development. So I gave it a try and use it in my project. Here are the steps I took to…

A simple app example and proper way to request Android runtime permission workflow using Accompanist Permissions library for Jetpack Compose — There are 2 types of permissions: Install-time permissions Runtime permissions An example of the most common install-time permissions is internet permissions. The Android OS system automatically grants your app the permission when the app is installed. You just need to declare the permission in the AndroidManifest.xml.

@RequiresApi() and @ChecksSdkIntAtLeast() Annotations are used by lint tool in Android Studio to provide proper warning/error messages — One of the things I am confused about in Android development is these lint tool annotations. These annotations do not sound like lint tool annotations to me, but they are. So, I call them lint tool annotations because it makes them clear to me on their purposes which provides you…

Beginner’s friendly step-by-step guide to learn how to use Preferences and Proto DataStore, Room Database is not covered. — There are a few ways you can store data locally on your Android devices: SharedPreferences (replaced by Preferences DataStore) Preferences DataStore Proto DataStore Room Database SharedPreferences is the old way, which has been replaced by Preferences DataStore due to its shortcomings (e.g. …

Simple Jetpack Compose example to demonstrate how to sign in with a Firebase Authentication pre-build UI using FirebaseUI — This is part of the Firebase tutorial series: Part 1 — Simple Firebase Sign-in UI Demo App Part 2 — Integrate Firebase Realtime Database and User Authentication into your Android App In this demo app, we will guide you through the steps to enable FirebaseUI for authentication and demonstrate how…

A step-by-step guide how you can let users review your app using Google Play In-app review API and test it out using Internal App Sharing — This is just a quick guide and a simple example of how to add the Google Play In-app review dialog in your app. This is what it looks like after I implemented this in RSS feed reader app.

Step-by-step and easy-to-follow guide to implement deep links in your Android app using Navigation Compose library — This is part of the Jetpack Compose navigation series: Part 1 — Simple Jetpack Compose Navigation Example Part 2 — Compose Destinations — Navigation Library Part 3 — How to Add Bottom Navigation in Jetpack Compose? Part 4 — How to Add Navigation Drawer in Jetpack Compose? Part 5 —…

Exploring the Power of Kotlin Flow: Combining, Merging, and Zipping Streams — This is part of the asynchronous flow series: Part 1 — Exploring Android LiveData Usages and Behaviors Part 2 — Introduction to Kotlin Flows and Channels Part 3 — Exploring Different Ways to Collect Kotlin Flow Part 4 — Convert Flow to SharedFlow and StateFlow Part 5 — Flow, SharedFlow…