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Keeping your app up-to-date on your users’ devices enables them to try new features, as well as benefit from performance improvements and bug fixes. Although some users enable background updates when their device is connected to an unmetered connection, other users may need to be reminded to update. In-app updates is a Play Core library feature that introduces a new request flow to prompt active users to update your app. Add this in dependencies{ implementation ' com.google.android.play:core: 1.6 . 4 ' } In-app updates work only with devices running Android 5.0 (API level 21) or higher, and requires you to use Play Core library 1.5.0 or higher. After meeting these requirements, your app can support the following UX for in-app updates: Flexible Immediate   Flexible A user experience that provides background download and installation with graceful state monitoring. This UX is appropriate when it’s acceptable for the user to use the app while downloading t...

A SeekBar is an extension of ProgressBar that adds a draggable thumb. The user can touch the thumb and drag left or right to set the current progress level or use the arrow keys. Placing focusable widgets to the left or right of a SeekBar is discouraged. SeekBar support only int values for progress: void setMax(int max) Set the upper range of the progress bar max. void setMin(int min) Set the lower range of the progress bar to min. void setProgress(int progress) Sets the current progress to the specified value. int getMax() Return the upper limit of this progress bar's range. int getMin() Return the lower limit of this progress bar's range. int getProgress() Get the progress bar's current level of progress. In some scenario we would need floating point seekbar progress, which is not supported by default in android. Here the floating seekbar which supports floating point value: You can download the full sample and library from https://github.com/yuvaraj119/Cus...

Currently google has release the Flexbox which can be used for building flexible layouts using FlexboxLayout, it can be interpreted as an advanced LinearLayout because both layouts align their child views sequentially. For more detail on this flexbox-layout But here we are gonna work on Flexbox with RecyclerView. Flexbox with a large number of items in a scrollable container! Let's first see what are the Supported attributes / features comparison Due to some characteristics of the RecyclerView, some Flexbox attributes are not available/not implemented to the FlexboxLayoutManager. Here is a quick overview of the attributes/features comparison between the two containers. Attribute / Feature FlexboxLayout                FlexboxLayoutManager (RecyclerView) flexDirection flexWrap (except wrap_reverse ) justifyContent alignItems alignContent - layout_order - layout_fle...

How to compress the image without loosing the quality. You can compress the image just like whatsapp like quality. File externalFile = new File(Environment. getExternalStorageDirectory () , " ProfilePic /helloimg.jpg" ) ; Uri externaluri = Uri. parse (externalFile.getPath()) ; compressImage(externaluri.toString() , "helloimg" ) ; // Method to compress Image Compress image public String compressImage (String imageUri , String imagenameName) { String filePath = getRealPathFromURI(imageUri) ; String fileName = imagenameName ; Bitmap scaledBitmap = null; BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options() ; //by setting this field as true, the actual bitmap pixels are not loaded in the memory. Just the bounds are loaded. If //you try the use the bitmap here, you will get null. options. inJustDecodeBounds = true; Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory. decodeFile (filePath...

WebP is an image file format from Google that provides lossy compression (like JPEG) as well as transparency (like PNG) but can provide better compression than either JPEG or PNG. Lossy WebP images are supported in Android 4.0 (API level 14) and higher, and lossless and transparent WebP images are supported in Android 4.3 (API level 18) and higher. This page shows how to convert images to WebP format and how to convert WebP images to PNG format. Convert images to WebP: Android Studio can convert PNG, JPG, BMP, or static GIF images to WebP format. You can convert individual images or folders of images. To convert an image or folder of images, proceed as follows: Right click on an image file or a folder containing a number of images files, and then click Convert to WebP . The Converting Images to WebP dialog opens. The default settings depend on the minSdkVersion setting for the current module. Figure 1. The Converting Images to WebP dialog. Select either lossy ...

Official Website for YouTube API V3 https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started In YouTube API we can load videos with authentication or credential.   Google Sample for getting credential in android  https://github.com/googlesamples/android-credentials , but we will modify it for our sample application step by step. Create a OAuth 2.0 client IDs in Google API Console with your application package name for API for Android and this API key is not needed to be copied or pasted in your application its just to register your project for OAuth 2.0.   Add these library in your gradle file: compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:9.0.2'  compile 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.22.0'  compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-youtube:v3-rev171-1.22.0' compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.6.1' compile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0' compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:23...