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While building apps i have often incorporate ViewModels without fully grasping their intricacies. I made some common mistakes, like creating ViewModel instances within a remember block and such silly mistakes,but this journey has prompted me to dig a little deeper into understanding ViewModels and their internal workings. The primary questions we are going to address are as follows: What is a ViewModel? How to create a ViewModel? What is the difference between ViewModel and AndroidViewModel? What is a ViewModelFactory? What is viewModelScope? When is the ViewModel dropped by the ViewModelStore? What is onCleared() in the ViewModel ? lets begin our journey.... What is a ViewModel? ViewModel is a simple class that is part of the Android Architecture Components and its primary purpose is to store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle-conscious manner caching its value during the lifecycle of the activity It helps us to avoid loading dat

Bloomlog- an app to encourage gardening with a gamified journey. The structure we are building today is roughly as per the image below: There are quite a number of ways to do it, One is using a constrained layout or another using available layouts since I'm a bit lazy today I'm planning to implement it using the available layouts and vaguely the structure is going to as shown in in the below diagram: Me Implementing this ui with the above structure is available here: The code is available on my GitHub profile, if there was anything that i missed out on, please mention it below.

In this blog post, we'll explore a simple yet effective implementation of a search bar in Jetpack Compose. The provided SearchTextField composable offers a basic text field with a placeholder, suitable for building the app top bar. Screen Shot of the Component from my Jot-app The following code can be used to your project directly and it should work as expected, the idea was to have a search bar for a top app which can also hst the buttons on either ends,do check the code below If you have any suggestions or improvements for the code, let's have a conversation below. Your feedback is valuable to me

Modern Android App Architecture One of the essential features for a globalized app is the ability to provide users with the option to choose their preferred language within the application. In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of implementing in-app language selection in an Android app. Step 1: Create Locale String Resource Create a string resource file for each respective locale by navigating to res > new > Android Resource File . Select Locale and create a string.xml file. Copy and paste the translations of your app content into these files. Step 2: Configure Locale Preferences In the res/xml folder, create a new file called locales_config.xml and specify the locales of your choice. for example look at the following code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <locale-config xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <locale andro

Gist: A Linked list is dynamic array where a group of object can be stored while following the insertion order and allow duplicates, the 2 type of linked list is singly and double linked lists, the default one is single linked list where the elements can be traversed only in forward direction this is because unlike array here the elements are stored at random locations and only the node of each element knows the address of the next element. A simple example would be our circut board here a point X may be connection to Y and Y connectioned to pont Z here the insertion order is preserved and we can know the next point only by following the signals from the previous point. Same as the example but in Linked list each element has 2 parts in singly linked list where 1 part is the node with the adress to the next node and the other which is the actua data of that element like a post letter the envelop has the address and inside the contents. but in doubly linked list there are 3 parts

The expectation is to find the total number of choclate one can consume by taking full advantage of the offer, Here there are 3 inputs n which holds the value of initial amount of money for buying choclate, c is the cost price of each candy if paid by cash and m is the exchange rate for the candy. Inputs n Initial cash to buy candy. c Coast of each candy if paid by cas.h m Exchange rate for a new candy in offer. The initial count of choclate will be the cash / coast and the wrappers in hand will be the same value of choclate, and from there we loop through until the wrap count is less than the exchange rate, inside the loop the choclate count will still hold the same fourmula as before but divided with exchange rate. The wrap count is the tricky part... the wrap will be wrap/ exchange rate(the no. choclate) + the remainder of this division(THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT) because for example if the count of wrapper is 3 and the exchange rate is 2 you can only buy 1 c

Difficulty: EASY Problem : The objective here is to find the size of the highlighted area, and we are given the size's of all the alphabets, we have to find the largest alphabet in the highlighted word and then calculate the size of the rectangle so if the tallest character is 3 then the size of the box will be 3 * number of characters given. Visual representation of the selection : abc def ghij Inputs An array with the sizes of all alphabets a-z in order. A String of highlighted words. Important points to note The array which holds the height of each character in ascending order which means the arrays 0th index will have the height of a 1st index will have the height of b and so on and so forth in the end the hight of z will be there so it's easy to locate each character. A String with the highlighted word. This means we have got the characters inside the rectangle, all we have to find is

 Threads are basically a way to run multiple tasks concurrently this can be helpful to speed up your program, usually, a Java program runs on a single thread by utilizing only one core of your processor here the other processors are just sitting idly by introducing thread java helps us to make use of these idle processors.  How to create a new thread process? There are two ways of creating a new thread is by extending the Thread class and another way is by implementing Runnable interface either way the class must override the run method which will be called during the start method of the thread object.  1. extending the Thread class  public class Main extends Thread { public void run() { System.out.println("This code is running in a thread"); } } 2.  Implementing Runnable Interface public class Main implements Runnable { public void run() { System.out.println("This code is running in a thread"); } } The ideal way

Most people consider the collection as the root interface of Collections Framework and it is true to a great extent but another part of Collections Framework is Map Interface, we will see that later, Most Common methods which are applicable to all collections are defined in this interface for example add() to add an element, size() to get the size and much more, below is a table of most common methods. Hierarchey of the Collection Interface. The Parent of Collection Interface is Iterator Interface and the Collection is base class for List Interface, Set Interface and Queue Interface, the respective classes which impliments either of the sub classes will also implement the defined methods from the Collection Interface, below are some of the commonly used methods. Defined Methods: Method Description add() This method returns a Boolean value true if it inserts the specified element in this collection.

Gist: An array list can store individual objects by following insertion order, here the initial capacity is 10 by default but can be modified as per the requirement, once the array list reaches its load factor then internal all the elements of the current array is copied to a new array with the new capacity and the reference variable will now be referring to this new array list and the old array will be dealt by the garbage collector. Hierarchical order Type of constructors Empty argument constructor or the default constructor is the same as invoking any other object here a new ArrayList is created with a default size of 10. Below is the most commonly used constructor by beginners and others alike. ArrayList array = new ArrayList(); //array has a capacity of 10 The default constructor above will allot only 10 slots but if you want the initial size to be 20 or 1000 you can do so with the following constructor this is ideal w

Difficulty : EASY Problem : Maria plays college basketball and wants to go pro. Each season she maintains a record of her play. She tabulates the number of times she breaks her season record for most points and least points in a game. Points scored in the first game establish her record for the season, and she begins counting from there. Visual representation of the table Game Score Minimum Maximum Count Min Count Max 0 12 12 12 0 0 1 24 12 24 0 1 2 10 10 24 1 1 3 24 10 24 1 1 Ouput : [1 , 2] Imporant Points to note We canculate the record determining her performance on Game 0(which is highlited in green) which will the value of minimum and maximum. We change the value of maximum

1. Overview: A literal key indicates the compiler how to interpret the value of the given data type, for numbers we can calculate the value by using Octal representation or hexadecimal representation but just typing out a hexadecimal value to an int will throw us an error because the compiler has no idea how to handle it but if we assign the java specified prefix for the required bases with some literals then the compiler will not throw us any error as it understands how to interpret the value.  Base Litrals Values Example Eg. Value Decimal none 0-9 int x = 10; x is 10 Octal 0 (zero) as the prefix 0-7 int x = 12; x is 10 Hexadecimal 0x or (zero) along with an x 0-9 and a-f or A-F int x = 0XA; x is 10 Binary or Base(2) Allowed Digits 0 and 1 int i = 10; and now the variable i has value 10. int n = 12

2. Overview: There are eight primitive data types byte, short, int, long, float, double boolean, char. These eight data types store values as raw instead of Objects these primitives help to save memory to a great extent and simplify other processes as they are directly stored in the stack. Data Type Size(in bits) Minimum Range Maximum Range byte 8 -128 127 short 16 -32768 32767 int 32 -2147483648 2147483647 long 64 -9223372036854775808 9223372036854775807 float 32 -3.4e38 to -1.4e-45 1.4e-45 to 3.4e38 double 64 -1.8e308 to -4.9e-324 4.9e-324 to 1.8e308 boolean 1 - - char 16 space 65535 byte A byte has the capacity of 8 bits or 1 byte and it can store numbers between -2 7 and 2 7 -1 or simply -128 to 127. This is very useful while deali

Naming Conventions in Java As the movies are rated G, PG, U, A depending on the age restriction and by just gazing through the rating our parents decide the movie to watch together, or a book with diffrent labels to keep track of the sections and just by seeing them we know what they represent, the same labeling method has been introduced by Java team to diffrenciate variables, methods, classes, constants etc.. and we will be going through them all here. Type Naming Convention Example Variables Must start with a lower case and every other word capitalized int counter; Constants Must all be upper case and _ for diffrenciating every other word final int MAX_HEALTH = 100; Methods Must start with a lower case and every other word capitalized. can be distingiused from the variable by the () next to the method name void printNum(){..} Class Must start an upper case letter and every other word must