Gender Equality Detection in Written Text
Gender is a social construct Gender and sex are two different things. From a very young age, we see different roles played by our father and mother. We see society treating a boy and a girl differently. Children are told not to play certain games or wear ...
Predicting Maternal Morbidity using Machine Learning Techniques
Machine learning (ML) is expected to make the hunt for new health care quicker, cheaper, and more effective. It could be taught to identify concerning trends quickly, while also improving its models over time and potentially proposing courses of action. ...
Safe Navigation With Jetpack Compose
Navigation is the key part of application development and Android is no exception. From Activities and Fragments transitions to Navigation Component and now, Navigation Component is available for Jetpack Compose! In this article, I would like to give a br...
Let it flow
I've been working with Flow on production for almost a year now. The light weight kotlin coroutines stream library has completely replaced RxJava for our new projects. RxJava is still a trend for Android Development even in 2020. But this article is not a...
Using MockWebServer On Android
At some point in your code development you'll want to test how the interaction with your app and the API server is being handled, but testing with a real connection with a server is expensive and unstable. Unit tests should be real quick and assert if you...
Android Unit Testing is Easy
The reason I am writing this article is because it was very hard for me to find some unit testing materials on Android Components. I hope I can fill the gap. Let’s talk about unit testing for a bit. I am not going to explain what unit testing is in this a...
Building a COVID-19 Tracing app in a week
We wanted to create a prototype app to help people to find out if they contacted anybody infected by the COVID-19 disease. It will use wireless technologies searching near by and notify users. In this post we're going to talk about the thoughts behind thi...
Android Image Framework Comparison
As an Android developer you have a lot of options when it comes to adding images to your app. In this blog we will give you a quick comparison between Glide (https://github.com/bumptech/glide), Picasso(https://square.github.io/picasso/), Fresco (https://f...
Avoiding tampering on Android
It's important to keep user data safe. Like any software, Android can be target of attacks to access valuable data and even though no software is perfectly safe, as developers we should always follow the security best practices and do what is in our reach...
Android Dark Theme
With the arrival of Android 10, the latest trend in Android development is giving the users the choice to select a dark version of the app. Some say it can help save battery life and some just prefer it because it is easier on the eyes when the user opens...