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Plural string resource in your Android app
Category: Android

Plural string resource in your Android app

When your app supports multiple languages using the string resources, it's pretty assumable that at some point you'll be needing a string that is different for multiple amounts. In this blogpost we'll be discussing the solution on how to achieve this.

Bart Kessels 5 min
Automatically testing the UI of your Android app
Category: Android

Automatically testing the UI of your Android app

During your development phase, you'd like everything that can be automated to be automated. This also goes for your UI testing, you can either click through the UI yourself, our let the test runner do that for you.

Bart Kessels 9 min
Enable UI preview in Android Studio
Category: Android

Enable UI preview in Android Studio

When developing an Android app, you're likely to iterate through multiple UIs. When going through this process you don't want to build and run your app every iteration, for this you can use previews in Android Studio.

Bart Kessels 4 min
Support multiple languages in your app
Category: Android

Support multiple languages in your app

The user base for your application includes multiple nationalities, so why don't you update your app to allow for multiple languages?

Bart Kessels 6 min
Set up Material Design with Jetpack Compose
Category: Android

Set up Material Design with Jetpack Compose

You've just set up Jetpack Compose, and now you want to make your app look like a native Android app. This is just as simple as setting up Material Design and updating your UI components.

Bart Kessels 3 min
Set up View Models with Jetpack Compose
Category: Android

Set up View Models with Jetpack Compose

You've just set up Jetpack Compose, but how do you properly separate the UI from the business logic? This is were Android has you covered with View Models.

Bart Kessels 7 min
Set up Jetpack Compose
Category: Android

Set up Jetpack Compose

In Android development, the new standard for building UI's is Jetpack Compose. But how do you actually set it up for your application?

Bart Kessels 5 min
Change the executable bit of file on Windows without WSL
Category: Miscellaneous

Change the executable bit of file on Windows without WSL

When using Linux pipelines in your development process, it might happen that you need to execute a script. However, sometimes these scripts don't have the right permissions to be executed.

Bart Kessels 4 min