Kotlin 1.9.0 relased on August 23, 2023. In addition to the new features, experimental features from earlier versions are now stable. In today’s article, we will explore the stable Time API Duration is stable since version 1.6.0 Major functions/interfaces/classes markNow() — Marks a point in time on the given time source. val valueTimeMark1 = TimeSource.Monotonic.markNow() measureTime() — It returns the duration of…

When propagateMinConstraints introduced? In 1.0.0-alpha11, it was added to the Box What is it? @Composable inline fun Box( modifier: Modifier = Modifier, contentAlignment: Alignment = Alignment.TopStart, propagateMinConstraints: Boolean = false, content: @Composable BoxScope.() -> Unit ): Unit As per the Box’s definition propagateMinConstraints is of type Boolean and the default is set to false

Today, we will learn how we can add an emoji picker in Android applications using Jetpack Emoji Picker The following three steps are all we need to incorporate EmojiPickerView into our application Add the dependency to your app-level build.gradle file OR You can directly add the dependency if you…

In this article, we will learn how to use the MenuProvider API to add the Options menu to the toolbar. Major components MenuHost MenuProvider LifecycleOwner LifecycleOwner.State setHasOptionsMenu() , onCreateOptionsMenu(), onOptionsItemSelected() — Deprecated 🛑

The purpose of this article is to explain how we can integrate code-scanning functionality into our Android applications using Google’s Code Scanner API. Major benefits: No permissions required 🎉 No dependencies on MLKIt anymore Scan results are returned solely to the app by Google Play services, which does all the work for…

Recently, Android studio Flamingo 🦩 hit the stable channel. So I have updated the IDE and all works as expected. Android studio Flamingo comes with default JDK set to JDK17 All works as expected until I run the unit tests for our project 💔 Our application support English and French…

With the release of the first beta of Android14, we got a new feature called CustomActions for Sharesheet. Here we will explore this new feature and see how we can add our own custom actions to Sharesheet. In Android, we will see the following standard Sharesheet with several options whenever…

Kotlin 1.8.20 has been released, and we will explore some of the new features/improvements. We will cover only new language features and Standard library updates. Please refer to the References section to check the full details of this release New language features Enum class entries function Why do we need this new function? values() — Returns Array…

In this article, we will learn about Android14’s new permission that allows users to grant access to only selected media(Photos🖼️/Videos🎥), rather than the entire library. This new permission allows users to grant partial access to media when our app is running on Android14 or higher New permission dialog It has 3 options You…