Through the years of developing Android apps, there have been countless times that we implemented simple lists. Lists that only have these basic features: Display items Handle item clicks Using ListAdapter and with the help of DataBinding, we can create a powerful and reusable SimpleListAdapter which we can use every time we implement a simple
Google has released Flutter 1.2, the latest stable build to its popular cross-platform UI framework for building apps for iOS, Android, Fuchsia, and Web. Just recently, Google Flutter has introduced the ability to build Linux apps distributed through Ubuntu maker Canonical’s Snap Store. Microsoft has been very busy recently with their ecosystem and they are
The privately held software engineering company Movial, has been recently acquired by Microsoft to work on a custom Android flavour for the Surface Duo. As “foldable” smartphones is still an emerging market, the Surface Duo is an exciting new smartphone/tablet hybrid that Microsoft is working on that requires a custom Android OS. And Microsoft is
While Android’s wide variety of customisation options for both hardware and software is the biggest advantage of the OS, it’s also one of its biggest problems. This results to hardware fragmentation, meaning, due to the wide variety of customised Android devices, pushing new Android features to existing devices takes a lot longer and sometimes doesn’t
