Storing tokens with MongoDB and sending notifications topic and batch wise — In our last post, we learnt how to add notifications to an android app. …

No more untrusted content in WebViews — Starting with Android O, Google allows developers to secure webviews in their apps from untrusted external content by separating WebView renderer process from the host application. This allows the host app to stay away from crashes in renderer process as well as exploit attempts made through malicious content. The renderer…

Using a directive and scope for all the pages — For a long long time, Google search optimization relied on a limited set of tools like auto crawl, search console or supported schema types. The things, however, started changing in 2015 when Google finally decided to give ld+json a green signal, opening doors for a variety of rich cards which…

A beginner’s guide to recyclable lists on Android — NOTE: This article was first published on Context Neutral. Visit to find more related articles and guides. Lists are inevitable. Your Facebook feed is a list, the music player you use makes use of lists to show tracks on your phone, and even the home screen menu you see on…

From card background to compat padding, namespaces to methods — If you have been doing layouts for a while now, you must be familiar with the uneasiness that comes with creating layouts, more specifically creating the same layout over and over again for different application components. …

Everything from generating tokens to receiving and displaying notifications Notifications are important! I can’t recall using an app that didn’t have notifications excluding, of course, those apps that don’t serve a purpose like these. Notifications play a vital role in your app success. …

One practice at a time to become a better Android beginner — It’s been more than 12 years since Andy Rubin and team started working on the idea of a mobile operating system that would change the way mobile phones, rather smartphones were seen by consumers as well as the people who developed software for it. …

SSL setup done right — Let’s jump straight into the Node.js part where we will create an HTTPS server on top of Express framework. We will assume that you have Node and NPM installed on your machine. We start off with installing express. The following command will install express and save it in node_modules folder. …