Tag: Kotlin

01/20/2024

5 min readIntroduction Have you ever glanced at your mobile screen and noticed an app’s icon looking fresh and different from before? This isn’t just visual flair; it’s the magic of dynamic app icons at play. This fascinating feature allows Android apps to change their icons dynamically, all without needing updates from…

10/02/2022

7 min readGoogle created the open-source Android operating system with mobile devices in mind. Over the years, it has grown significantly in popularity, which has led to a tremendous demand for Android developers. According to Statista, a statistics portal, Android has a market share of 87%; this is greater than the market…

11/13/2019

3 min readRecently my team and I worked on implementing WebSockets (known as subscriptions in GraphQL), to allow users to talk to each other in real-time. During this time, we saw that the documentation to this using the Apollo client for Android was pretty bad! So in this post, I will be…

03/17/2019

3 min readSealed classes are used for representing restricted class hierarchies, when a value can have one of the types from a limited set, but cannot have any other type. They are, in a sense, an extension of enum classes: the set of values for an enum type is also restricted, but…