Back button which is normally referred to as a back arrow enables users of your app to navigate back to the previous Activities or Fragments that they have previously opened but weren't terminated (finished). It's a super cool functionality which you gotta implement to ensure effective navigation on your app, so you really should not miss placing Back button to your app’s interface. Mobile phones have got this tendency of keeping track of destinations as the user moves around throughout your application. Through this behavior, we are then able to fallback to these destinations that the user once was, provided that they were not terminated. However, there are a few cases where your app might need to implement its own Back behavior in order to provide the best possible user experience. It makes a more perfect sense to implement a back button on an Action Bar if your project has more than one Activity. So that back arrow you normally see at one end of an action bar is normally...

 Hello there, Stanley here, or Sam. Today am gonna talk you through brief steps for which you can be able to make a simple and yet super efficient document scanner App. We are going to implement this by using Kotlin as our back-end programming language. So let's get hands dirty for a couple of minutes. Keep in mind, the process is surprisingly simple than you think. A super useful tool at hand is called Document Scanner. It is a library that is going to offer us the ability to scan documents based on CameraX API . This library was previously offered by Document-Scanning-Android-SDK . It was then taken away and enhanced with Improved logic of image processing, and as you can predict, the word enhance has to have better stuff. It's current processing time is promising being 5 times than it used to. Scanning a document under ideal scanning conditions takes approximately 5 seconds . Let's give it a Go The thing am about to lay out is not really relevant if you have the most c...

  Privacy Policy This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how we collect, use, and share information about you when you use our mobile application "Africa's Clock". Information Collection We do not collect any personal information from your device when you use the App. The App only requires internet access to function properly. Information Use The information we collect is used solely for the purpose of providing the time for different cities in Africa through the App. We do not share or sell this information to any third parties. Security We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. Changes to Privacy Policy We may update this Policy from tim...

A PopupMenu is some form of a menu that is used to display a menu in a modal popup window which is rooted upon a certain view. Example, if you have a login button with multiple login options, you may create this kind of menu there. A popup will appear below the button provided that a room is available, else it shows on top of the view, which for our case is a button. Some cases happen when an IME is visible where we don't expect that a popup will overlap it unless it is brought into an attention, such as when it's clicked. Just like some dialogs you've met, touching outside of the popup will surely dismiss it.  Let's fire this up by creating a menu in XML and then we definitely will shift our efforts to the Kotlin file where we implement it's usability. The process will be in a couple of steps, very descriptive and simple i tell you that. Creating a Menu XML for the Popup Menu. Some people may have this expert ability where they just create the whole thing on the...

Recently there has been an official release of Linux Mint 21 as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop Ubuntu.  One thing you will simply realize on Linux Mint 21 is it's behavior when transitioning it's base from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release from earlier this year. With moving to the two year newer Ubuntu packages there is a plethora of package upgrades and other enhancements to this Linux distribution. Improved features in Linux Mint 21 is the Bluetooth handling by replacing Blueberry with Blueman, Linux Mint's own xapp-thumbnailers is its new thumbnail generator, a basic process monitor is now integrated into the desktop, various other XApps improvements, printing and scanning improvements, and artwork improvements.

        Hello there, today am going to walk you through steps with which we will open a PDF File in your app programmatically using Kotlin as our back-end programming language. The PDF File we will open up will be selected from a mobile device (or your emulator say) and then load that on your app and finally open it up. Here's our road map We will select a PDF file from the device We will use PSPDFKit to open the selected PDF, so we definitely need to set it up the first thing.  Let's get this started, First of all, you really need to pardon my ways of listing stuff. Am well aware that i mentioned setting up PSPDFKit a little bit later but it's actually the first thing we will set up. But before we get all deep into this thing, let's get a liitle bit familiar with PSPDFKit. What the heck is it?, keep reading. PSPDFKit for Android is an SDK for viewing, annotating, editing, and creating PDFs. It offers developers powerful Kotlin and Java APIs for quickly a...

            During making of your app, sometimes you may require to access external storage as a part to make your app more functional as your preliminary design suggests. It gets a bit straining if it's your first time or maybe you are just used to the previous approach which for some reason has gotten deprecated say.           Well you need not to worry about that no more, as i am going to give you a step by step tutorial on how to approach this in a more simplified and clean approach. Mind you, we are going to do this using Kotlin as our primary language of implementation. Let's get Started... 1. Declaration in your Android Manifest.  i Assume you already have your project created with kotlin as our back-end programming language. The first thing here you really wanna do is head to your manifest file and make you app aware of the list of permissions it's associated with.Simply add the following code in your androi...

 Well, at some point in an exploration of a random app, you might have met this kind of a Dialog where some solid sheet pops up from the bottom of the screen to some heights over the main screen of you phone. I personally have met this in a Pinterest app on the account fragment of the MainActivity. It's a very cool feature to implement on your app and also very easy to implement. So follow me as i take you through an in-depth simplified illustration on how to implement the UI component. First thing should be obvious as you need to have your android project all set up, and by this i mean you only need to create a new project (i suggest you use an empty activity one) i happen to look at it as a good practice. And in there you wanna have an extra layout where you design the appearance of your bottom sheet stuff. You take a look at mine below. <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ?> <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns: android =...

  OUR PRIVACY POLICY ASAP: Image to PDF Converter respects the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy applies to the information we collect through our app, which is designed to convert images from your camera or gallery to PDF and save them in the app directory on your device. Information We Collect We collect the following types of information: Images: When you use the app to convert images to PDF, we temporarily collect the images you select in order to perform the conversion. These images are deleted from our servers immediately after the conversion is complete. Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our app, such as the device's unique identifier, model, and operating system. How We Use Your Information We use the information we collect to provide and improve our app. Specifically, we use the images you provide to convert them to PDF and save them in the app directory on your device. We use device information to understand and optimize...

           At some point you might wanna add a Menu in your app to provide users with a variety of options from which they have to choose to perform some functionalities built in your app. The options menu is where you should include actions and other options that are relevant to the current activity context, such as "Search," "Compose email," and "Settings".          Designation of where your options have to be seen is affected by the target SDK version for which you develop your application for. So you clearly have to take this into consideration before taking any steps for implementation. In this article am going to give you a step by step tour, giving you most details you need to implement an options menu in your application . Right now you need to create a new project or you may have one created already, so let's get started... 1. Create a Menu resource file in a Menu directory of your App       ...