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Designing animations using MotionLayout in Android - Basics

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Hello Friends,  Here  we are again yet in another blog. Today, we are going to learn about the MotionLayout which was introduced in Android Studio 4.0 release. Right-back in the Google I/O 2018 , it was first announced to promising to ease the difficulty the developers were facing while creating complex animations for their UIs. To overcome this solution Google has released a new MotionEditor tool that simplifies the creation of complex animations using the MotionLayout. So let's get started...! Android Studio 4.0 perhaps has a lot for the developers to get stuck into it. But the most interesting thing in this release is the "Motion Editor". Using animations, transitions and text or view transformations, you can improve your UX (User Experience) in your application and make your users happy. Indeed creating animations and UIs is a very difficult part to do, but we will try to make it easier. Setting up your prerequ...

How to implement In-App updates in Android

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Being an Android developer, we want our users to have the latest version of our app. But in real life, only a few users have the updated version of our app. One of the major reasons for not updating the app is that the users don’t have much time to go to the play store to search for updates and then download and install the update. Keeping your app up-to-date on your users’ devices enable them to try new features, as well as benefit from performance improvements and bug fixes.  To address the same problem, Google has proposed an in-app update system to update the apps. In-app updates is a Play Core library feature that introduces a new request flow to prompt active users to update your app. In-app updates work only with devices running Android 5.0 (API level 21) or higher and require you to use Play Core library 1.5.0 or higher. In this blog, we will learn how to implement the in-app update in our app. So, let’s get started. ...