Post about developing for Android mobile OS
Why? Pinning is needed to protect data going from your app to your backend. Without certificate pinning your users traffic may be intercepted by a Man-in-the-middle attack (MITM). Even if you are using SSL connections (which everyone should be doing …
If you run into this in Android Studio, you may need a gradle update. I’ve ran into this while using Gradle v5.6.2 and Kotlin v1.3.61. I was also using the kotlin-dsl plugin for build.gradle . Apparently the kotlin-dsl plugin uses …
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Using HTML in TextViews can be helpful for formatting, especially when displaying content retrieved from a server. For optimal layout and control a custom native layout – either XML or programmatic is preferred, however using HTML in a TextView can …
When inflating a layout from XML for a custom view or in an <include> tag in a xml layout, the <merge> tag is essential. The merge tag does exactly that – it merges its contents into the parent layout. This …
Android developers get all the benefits of a nice statically compiled language, but that comes at a cost – build time. Compile times can add up quickly and be a big disruption in workflow. Builds taking minutes are not uncommon. …