At some point, every Android developer will end up using a Locale for the applications they are building. If you are dealing with dates and time zones, currencies or multiple language support, you probably faced some challenges to make everything work as intended. …
My company, Aircall, recently organized a hackathon to unleash our tech ideas for one and a half day. With the iOS folks, we decided to experiment voice interactions with Siri and Google Assistant in order to call a contact or show a specific data outside the application’s scope with Android…
After exploring the Jetpack Compose Canvas in a previous article, this new post will explain how you can draw and use a custom Shape for your Composables to give them a specific outline. The Jetpack Compose foundation library already provides common shapes but we’ll see how to take advantage of…
A couple months, we decided to use Android App Bundle (AAB) to distribute Aircall’s Android app in Play Store. After analyzing the Aircall Android application package (APK), we found we could deliver optimized APKs to our users — an overall size reduction of 60%!
In this article, we are going…
I was recently playing with Jetpack Compose, learning the future of the UI on Android. In a sample app, I tried to build a parallax effect I implemented in previous applications. In a screen you have an image in the background that scrolls less than the content you can scroll…
Security is a very important topic and has to be taken seriously when developing Android applications, especially if sensitive data is stored on the device such as user information or API tokens. Some third party libraries already exist to secure the app data like SecurePreferences but Google introduced its own…
Unity is a game engine developed by Unity Technology, running on Windows, MacOS and Linux, for building cross-platform games and applications (Android, iOS, Windows, PlayStation…). It has been there for 15 years now, and it gave us the opportunity to build high quality graphic experiences or games on mobile. Unity…
ExoPlayer is a very powerful library, developed and maintained by Google, for playing various video and audio content on Android. It also provides a large set of extension for using custom data source or supporting new formats. …
