Once your app is live on playstore, app rating and reviews are very crusical factors to drive more downloads. To achive this, we usually ask users to rate the app by showing a dialog with couple of buttons and redirecting them to playstore. With this user experience, there are chances that user might not come [...] The post Android Rate App using Google In-App Review API appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

As we all know, the Android team is constantly releasing new updates and improvements to the Android Framework. One of the components that received major updates is ViewPager2. ViewPager2 is the replacement of ViewPager and got few performance improvements and additional functionalities. In order to use ViewPager2, you should consider using androidx artifacts in your [...] The post Android working with ViewPager2, TabLayout and Page Transformers appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

You probably already know about the importance of having a mobile-friendly website for your business, but what about mobile apps? If your eCommerce business doesn’t have a mobile app yet, then this article will give you seven reasons to create one. By the end of this article, you will learn why not having one can [...] The post 7 Reasons Why Your eCommerce Business Needs a Mobile App appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

Font Awesome is very popular icon toolkit used across many websites. It has both free and pro collection of icons, but you can find most the icons in free collection itself. Each icon will represented by unicode (). We use this unicode to display the icon in TextView. As it’s a normal TextView, all the [...] The post How to use Font Awesome Icons in Android appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

From 2015 to 2018 there were approximately over 230,000 new malware programs detected daily. Malware is more or less an umbrella term for phishing attempts, spyware, viruses, Trojan, and a plethora of other types of harmful software that wreak havoc on an Android phone. Malware is ultimately designed to hack into an Android and steal [...] The post Top Android security risks and how to solve it appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

PayTM is the largest mobile commerce platform and digital wallet company. It has large user base of around 300 million and average transactions of 5 million per day. All digital payments can be made through paytm like mobile recharges, electricity bills, credit cards etc. Almost everything under the earth is covered in paytm ? Paytm [...] The post Android Integrating PayTM Payment Gateway – ECommerce App appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

Taking pictures from camera or gallery is an essential feature for many applications those includes media in their apps. A simple notes app may need a profile picture to make the notes more personal. Getting a thumbnail image from camera is easy, but sometimes you want the full resolution image without storing it in gallery, [...] The post Android choosing Image from Camera / Gallery with Crop Functionality appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

Timber is a logging utility class built on top of Android’s Log class. While in development, we usually end up writing lot of log statements and before the release, we’ll cleanup the log statements by removing them manually (even though logs can be disabled in release build). This tedious process can be avoided easily by [...] The post Android Better Logging using Timber Library appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

In my previous article, we have learned the Basics of DataBinding. Today, we are going to put the basics into action by implementing a profile screen using data-binding concepts. The profile screen will have profile details at the top and the below section will have post images in grid format. The grid will be achieved [...] The post Android DataBinding in RecyclerView – Profile Screen appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more

Over the last few years, the way consumers pay for goods and services has changed dramatically. Less of us are now using cash as a way to pay, with methods such as contactless become increasingly popular with the general public. During this time we have seen smartphone technology advance, with both Apple Pay and Google [...] The post Google Pay Is Set to Dominate appeared first on AndroidHive ..read more