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Navigation is an essential element of every Android app. It should be fast, intuitive and reliable. Good navigation patterns are natural to the user, providing a seamless flow without ever having to think about it. In this article we will briefly look back at how navigation traditionally was done on Android and the pitfalls and caveats that came with it.

In 2019, Egeniq became a Consulting Partner for Amazon. In this capacity, we deliver flexible and scalable solutions for your Cloud infrastructure.

By default, you have two MediaRoute button styles. A dark and a light variant, which have either a white or ablack icon. But what if you want to style the button to match your app, with a specific color?

Quality Assurance. A job title that you see more and more on top of the paycheques. Also called a tester, or technical tester. Or just QA. Just like all other job titles, the word itself does not really say what the job implies. Let alone what tje importance is of a QA within a project. So it is time to dive into this.

I have seen some funny images posted about having an electric meter style watch with those rotating numbers, combining the retro feeling of those plates with the modern design of a digital watch.

Yesterday the Dutch government asked people to work from home whenever possible until the end of the month, in the battle against the Corona virus. Many other countries already have such a measure in place, or will do soon. Most people have worked from home for one or a few days, but working from home for a longer period of time can be challenging.

Sometimes you see can see those visually pleasing jumping bars when listening to music, which jump higher when the music gets louder. Usually the lefter bars resemble the lower frequencies (the bass), and the righter bars the higher freqs (the treble).

Several months ago, we were tasked to implement a built-in program guide a built-in program guide (also called an EPG) in one of our Android TV apps. It should list all the channels from top to bottom, with the programs on the channels laid out from left to right on a timeline. There are some apps on Google Play, which have a similar program guide built-in, so I was hoping that there is a library or a Leanback component which we could build upon.

The Jetpack Navigation component is a very welcome add-on that makes the development of Android apps so much easier. No more committing Fragment transactions, and no more hassle to make sure that the up- and back button give the user the expected experience, not to mention the trouble of having to maintain a concise back stack for deep links and finally: How did we survive for so long without that visual navigation graph?