ClouddJR

A comprehensive guide to inline functions, covering their purpose, practical examples, and tips for when to use or avoid them.

In this post, I would like to show you how you can draw content behind the system bars (status bar or navigation bar) when building a UI using Jetpack Compose.

System bar colors can be changed directly with Compose, without a need to modify any XML files.

If you have ever wondered how ViewModels survive configuration changes given that the activities that hold them get destroyed and created again, here is a post for you.

If you do this, widgets that were placed on the home screen by your users will simply disappear.

The default solution with android:updatePeriodMillis doesn't always work.

Since Kotlin 1.6, the second operands of some Kotlin Collection operations will no longer be converted to a Set under the hood. This might have some performance implications.

Tips and tricks for dealing with 1-star reviews, angry customers, etc from a solo developer

In this post, I write about strategies for promoting an app without spending any money that I used with two of my apps- Days Counter (that has almost 1 million downloads) and UsageSafe (relatively young app, published 4 months ago, with more than 12 thousand downloads)