TV app is becoming a trend in some businesses and its demand is increasing due to growth of smart TV users. One of the biggest shares of operating systems in smart TVs is Android. When you google developing an android tv app, you can just find the Leanback default theme…

One of the most common issues in developing JavaScript is checking the var is defined or not. By TypeScript, you can cut off the excess if statement that you have to use. The problem Let's take a look at a simple example: First, we defined a variable, namely user, as an…

In this article, we start discussing the syntax in Kotlin programming language. Package and Import Package declaration In the first line of each file, the package name should be declared: package my.demo It should be mentioned that it is not mandatory matching the package name with the folder name. Import The next lines after the package…

The main Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing Kotlin is IntelliJ IDEA, which is an open-source and free (Community Edition) IDE developed by JetBrains, the company that designed and developed Kotlin. Step 1. Create the first project First, in IntelliJ IDEA click on the new project. Step 2. Create a Kotlin JVM project

Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that is designed and developed by JetBrains. It is a cross-platform language that targets the JVM, Android, JavaScript, and Native. Features Less Code (compared to Java) Kotlin compare to Java is more concise, and you need to write fewer lines of code, which helps to increase the readability. Interoperable with Java Kotlin is…

Model-View-Presenter (MVP) is a derivation of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, which is a common architectural pattern in android development. As its name expressed, it contains three sections, namely Model, View, and Presenter. Definitions Model If you have experience working with code architecture, undoubtedly you heard Model. The model is the central component…

This tutorial helps to integrate Stripe payment into your app with the following features: Accepts credit cards and other payment methods Saves and displays cards for reuse Launches full-screen activities to collect payment details Allows your customer to choose Google Pay as a payment method based on https://stripe.com/docs/mobile/android/basic 1. Add Stripe SDK First, add…

Crashes are nightmares of programmers. Change nightmares to dreams by switching from Java to Kotlin in Android development. Java was for many years the official language of Android development. And the most common reason for crashes was NullPointerException. It was very difficult to handle null safety in java codes until…

It was one of my problems, how to design nested vertical RecyclerView inside ScrollView in Android. The answer is: androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView It should be mentioned that in this case, the RecyclerView is NOT the RecyclerView anymore! In the first step, you need to create NestedScrollView element in XML: <androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView…