A lot of people have been asking me about Retrofit. How it can be used in Android. What does it do etc. As per its official documentation, Retrofit is nothing but a networking library for… Read More »Android Retrofit Tutorial
Streaming live video/audio in android is one of the very few interesting parts we have. Whenever we talk of streaming, the possibility of using RTMP(Real Time Messaging Protocol) cannot be ruled out. As RTMP is one… Read More »How To Stream RTMP live in Android
One of the new concepts introduced in Android is Volley. The reason, volley library is preferred over other similar libraries is because it is authored by Google engineers. But one of the major problems with… Read More »Android Volley ImageLoader and NetworkImageView Example
Now in android creating card views has gotten even more simpler. As with material design a new view was introduced through the support v7 library, called CardView. It can be used in many ways to display… Read More »Android CardView Example
A lot of people have been asking me how to integrate YouTube channels into an Android app. The answer is, by usage of YouTube data API and YouTube Android player API. Since as of now… Read More »Android YouTube API Example For Channels
Google introduced a new feature in Android Lollipop release, which allows the applications to become corporate network friendly. They call it the Android for work. In a way now with new Android(5.o) release, big organizations… Read More »How To Develop An Android App For Work
Being an Android developer I always had a development oriented approach. But once you start exploring things from a learning perspective, discoveries are stupendous. I never realized the full potential of AppCompat library in Android,… Read More »Android SwitchCompat Example
Android is an evolving platform. Recently 5.0 (Lollipop) version of Android was released, along with the official RecyclerView support v7 library. As per the official documentation RecyclerView is a major enhancement over ListView. It contains many… Read More »Android RecyclerView vs ListView | Comparison
One of the latest widgets introduced in Android is RecyclerView. Many say its a replacement of existing ListView widget, also termed as ListView 2.0. I browsed though the entire world wide web, in search of… Read More »Android RecyclerView Tutorial
Earlier mid last year Google released a unified design guideline for web, smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, called Material Design. As per Google’s official design spec, material design is inspired from the concept of paper… Read More »Android Material Design With Backward Compatibility