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Monthly Digest # 1 — May 2021
This month's digest is about taking action when you have a business idea, building an online audience in tech, how coding lets you see the world differently, and much more!
Waseef Akhtar
Writing mostly about Android and Software Engineering in general.
Android
Jetpack Compose: Styles and Themes (Part II)
If you're new to Jetpack Compose and looking at all the cool UI screens and animations around the internet like me, you're probably a bit overwhelmed but also curious about how things work in compose.
Android
Jetpack Compose: An easy way to RecyclerView (Part I)
If you're new to Jetpack Compose and looking at all the cool UI screens and animations around the internet like me, you're probably a bit overwhelmed but also curious about how things work in compose.
Android
Publishing your first Android library to MavenCentral
I’ll take my first published library as an example and make this a single source of guidance for all of you who are interested in publishing Android libraries.
Book Notes
Book Notes: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Before picking the book up, I only thought of Musk as “that guy who runs Tesla” and “that guy who runs SpaceX”. It was the first time Musk has explicitly let anyone interview him, and those close to him, for a biography.
Android
Android Material Component: Creating a Gmail like Navigation Drawer (Part II) — Adding that final Ripple touch
While I covered almost all the things there was about creating a Gmail like Navigation Drawer in the first part, this story is just about adding that tiny ripple effect to when you press the navigation drawer items.
Android
Android MotionLayout: Creating the Twitter splash screen in the simplest way possible (Part II)
I received questions on social media about this one action several times, which is about how to move to next screen after our animation is complete. I thought it’d be easy to figure out on your own but when I looked around, I figured that there aren’t very many resources for MotionLayout yet.
Android
Android Material Component: Creating a Gmail like Navigation Drawer (Part I)
I think that when you know exactly what you want to create, you tend to explore the component so much better. In this case, we’re creating a Gmail like Navigation Drawer while also keeping the blogpost short.
Android
Android MotionLayout: Creating the Twitter splash screen in the simplest way possible (Part I)
Remember the Twitter’s “oh so famous” splash screen that everyone talked about and had their version to imitate it? It’s now easier than ever to achieve that with the new MotionLayout from the Android Jetpack library.
Android
Android Material Component: Toolbar vs DisplayCutout
For the past two years, many mobile brands came out with their version of a cutout display lately and with that, we as developers need to think about yet another edge case, especially if we’re working with a completely immersive experience.
Android
Android Material Component: Navigation Drawer Styling (Part III)
In this post of the series, we’re looking at how to add and style the header view of the NavigationDrawer.
Android
Android Material Component: Navigation Drawer Styling (Part II)
The Navigation Drawer is a powerful component in Android Development which provide easy access to destinations in your app. But if you’ve come to this article, you probably know that and considering the title of the story, you’ve probably implemented it before.