Questions tagged [android]
Android is Google's open source OS and system for smart phones and tablets. Use this tag for software engineering questions about Android; for user questions, visit our sister site Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange.
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Backup for an Android offline password manager
I am building an Android password management app, where passwords are locally kept for security reasons. The network endpoints are only for creating an account, email verifications etc.
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Designing Password Recovery for an Offline-First Password Manager
I'm designing a password manager app for Android that prioritizes offline first security the idea is to store the vault locally and avoid any cloud dependencies during normal usage.
However, I'm ...
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How to Deploy Machine Learning Model on Wearable Edge Devices? [closed]
I have done mostly machine learning with big data, GPUs on EC2 VMs, K8S clusters etc. But this new assignment is on the other end of the scale.
Basically, it is a time series forecasting and ...
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Feasibility of using different java version for different project with different compatibility properties
I have multiple Flutter Android app projects that have different compatibilities of Java.
Now, what should I do if I am developing more than one project simultaneously?
If the first one uses Java 17, ...
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Is there any way to have an android or iOS app expose a web-api?
I want to develop a miminal app for iOS and Android.
Basically, I want to have a widget (or similar micro-app) that displays how many items I have in a list. If I open the widget, it just opens a ...
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Is returning Result types the standard way of dealing with errors in Kotlin?
Given that there are no checked exceptions in Kotlin, are Result types the correct way to indicate an exception occurred to the caller?
For example, I have the following function in my code:
suspend ...
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What is the correct way to configure a testing mode on a class?
I have a repository which reads and writes to Firestore, and some tests to make sure data is sent and comes back in the correct way.
In order to test this I added a protected function which returns ...
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How to send non real time push notifications so that the servers aren't hogged?
Our android application is built on java. And while sending push notifications we're using tomcat as a server.
And it is doing more harm than good. Currently all the push notifications (FCM/APN) are ...
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Is it normal to use multiple repositories in one viewmodel?
Does it violating any conventions? Is it acceptable by MVVM? I have to separate the local data repository and online repository, but for login I have to use multiple repositories for getting response ...
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Keeping version parity between platforms
I'm in the mobile development domain and I use semantic versioning to version my releases. I keep both versions the same as long as new builds are released for both iOS and Android platforms at the ...
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Android Jetpack DataStore item separation
I am trying to migrate to Jetpack DataStore from good ol' SharedPreferences and there is one thing I am struggling to come to terms with and that is the amount/size of the data pulling out of ...
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Writing apps for Android and Apple phone simultaneously
So, recently I have been looking into developing apps. I joined a school group who wanted to develop an app, problem being that I had an Android phone and my friends all had Apple phones. I know of ...
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am I understanding MVVM correctly? [duplicate]
ViewModel has Two-way data binding with UI which means UI can access the data from ViewModel and can update the view models data.
The Model has one-way data binding and is only supposed to respond ...
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Android + Kotlin + Hilt + multi-module app: Should I "migrate" all classes with static methods to "injection"?
With the purpose of learning Hilt I started "migrating" my multi-module Kotlin app from using classes with static methods as helpers to Hilt injection.
After a lot of headaches, now ...
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Android + Kotlin + Hilt: Dependency Injection vs Static Methods
I've already read this carefully, but still need more clarification.
I'm not new to dependency injection, but new to Hilt, and trying to implement Hilt in my multi-module app.
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