The Privilege of Opportunity: Lessons Learned as a Mentor

In the tech world, we often overlook our privileges, assuming that everyone has the same access and resources. But through mentorship across diverse backgrounds, I’ve come to realize how much we take for granted. Simple things like a reliable machine, uninterrupted time to study, or family support for a tech career are basic to many of us, yet they’re unattainable luxuries for others.

Jetpack Compose themes

Themes are an essential part of application development as they provide a unique user experience. I will explain how to achieve this goal using Jetpack Compose -the new Android UI toolkit-.

Lists using LazyColumn in Jetpack Compose

Before Jetpack Compose, we used to create a RecyclerView and an Adapter to show a large set of lists. Now, we can use LazyColumn or LazyRow to show a large set of lists vertically or horizontally with few lines of code as we will demonstrate in this blog.