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Preferences DataStore) Preferences DataStore Proto DataStore Room Database SharedPreferences is the old way, which has been replaced by Preferences DataStore due to its shortcomings (e.g. not safe to be called from the UI…

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…