Hello and welcome back! Previously, we talked about Static App Shortcuts. Let’s move on to the second type of App Shortcuts: dynamic shortcuts. What is a Dynamic App Shortcut? A Dynamic App Shortcut is an App Shortcut that can be changed (add, update, or remove) programmatically. This type of shortcut is suitable for performing actions that…

Hello again! We have talked about several things that could enhance users’ experience in your Android application. Let’s add another cool thing to the list: App Shortcut. What is an App Shortcut? 🤔 As the name suggests, an App Shortcut is a shortcut that performs a certain action in your app. Take the Google Calendar app…

Let’s continue our journey of building a seamless Android experience! After we’ve done optimizing our hints in the first article, we can take the next step on our journey: One-Tap SMS Verification. The Motivation In the Bobobox Android app (our use case app), customers need to register themselves first with an email…

Android 13 (Tiramisu)’s new APIs and features are ready to be tried out by developers. One of them is a copy and paste improvements. Copy and paste gets an improvement in Android 13 by the addition of a standardized UI shown when a content is copied to clipboard. As you…

Introduction to Series Welcome to “Bobobox: Building Seamless Android Experience” Medium Series! In this new exciting series, we are going to talk a lot about building Android application that provides seamless experience for its users. Not just theory, but also some hands-on coding. …

Android 13 (Tiramisu)’s new APIs and features are ready to be tried out by developers. One of them is a predictive back gesture. Predictive back gesture is a transition animation for back gesture that will let users preview the destination of the back gesture before they complete it. This way…

When we’re developing an Android application with Room for the local database, we might want to know how much space our database is taking. Here’s a simple way to do it: The main idea of the above utility class is pretty simple: Find out the file size of our…

One of the components of Material Design is Material Motion. Material Motion comprises of 4 patterns for transitioning between components/screens. One of these transition patterns is Container Transform. With Container Transform, you can transform one element into another during transition. …

Android Protected Confirmation is a security feature that was introduced back in Android 9 (API level 28). This feature enables you to use Trusted UI to confirm a certain user action (usually a transaction). What is Trusted UI? Trusted UI is hardware-protected user interface that facilitates high assurance to critical transactions. There are three…