If you have to show badge previously on android most time you end up developing some view and put as overlay on FrameLayout or arranging on top of the layout you want to set it. Current limitation of BaadgeDrawable provided material library are :  No way to set custom font No way to set custom drawable No official way to set font size No way to set stroke border like you see on badges on many apps No way to set text can only set int If any of them are not problem for you , you can go ahead with badgeDrawable link to material design badgeDrawble : https://material.io/develop/android/supporting/badge Properties that are available to modify : Bade background color Badge text color number - count to set maxLength - max length like 3 is limit it will display 999+ for above length horizontal and vertical offset to change position x,y coordinate sample code looks like below, most places you have to use tree observer so you can attache once view is drawn, otherwise its not showing up fab. ...

You may have seen gmail app where fab button expand and collapse as you scroll. fab button has been already there for some time new api extended dab button was added some time back. to use extended fab button you need to use  com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.ExtendedFloatingActionButton simplest implementation looks like below : <com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.ExtendedFloatingActionButton android:id="@+id/floating_action_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_margin="16dp" android:layout_marginEnd="24dp" android:layout_marginBottom="24dp" android:contentDescription="fab button" android:text="Add Button" app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent" app:icon="@drawable/ic_baseline_add_24" /> No...

If you want to style android button with custom style with background, custom font different enable disable state button colors you can do that using providing custom style to your button below is the example: inside res/value folder 1st. style for the button  <style name =“CustomButtonStyle” parent ="Widget.AppCompat.Button" >     <item name ="android:background" > @drawable/button_background.xml </item>     <item name ="android:textSize" > 16sp </item>     <item name ="android:textColor" > @color/black </item>     <item name ="android:fontFamily" > @font/font_name </item>     <item name ="fontFamily" > @font/font_name </item>     <item name ="textAllCaps" > false </item> </style> 2nd. in background we are supplying selector so we can have different enable / disable state background and text colors button_background.xml <? xml ver...

If you have requirement where you want to retry api you can take advantage rxjava retryWhen operator with below function. here with use of custom function you can add logic to check http status when you want api to retry and max number of time you want api to be retried.                public class RetryWithDelay implements Function < Observable <? extends Throwable >, Observable <?>> { private long delay ; private final int max = 2 ; private int count ; public RetryWithDelayPresenter ( final long delay ) { delay = delay ; count = 0 ; } @Override public Observable <?> apply ( Observable <? extends Throwable > observable ) { return observable . flatMap ( throwable -> { if ( throwable instanceof RetrofitException ) { final RetrofitException error =...

 With new compose library you can show alert dialog using the android compose below is the example : @Composable fun showDialog (message: String , onDismiss: () -> Unit) { AlertDialog ( text = { Text (message) } , onDismissRequest = onDismiss , buttons = { Column { Divider ( androidx.compose.ui.Modifier. padding ( horizontal = 12 . dp ) , color = MaterialTheme. colors . onSurface .copy( alpha = 0.2f ) ) Column { TextButton ( onClick = onDismiss , shape = RectangleShape , contentPadding = PaddingValues( 16 . dp ) , modifier = androidx.compose.ui.Modifier. fillMaxWidth () , ) { Text ( "Yes" ) } TextButton ( onClick = onDismiss , ...

If you want to style android Widget.MaterialComponents. TabLayout you can customize style with different properties changing tab text color can be done with property <item name="tabTextColor">@color/red</item> changing tab selected text color with property <item name="tabSelectedTextColor">@color/black</item> updating height of the underline below tab can be done using <item name="tabIndicatorHeight">2dp</item> changing the underline color in the bottom of the text of the tab can be done using property <item name="tabIndicatorColor">@color/red</item> If you want multiple tabs and you want them to be scrollable can be done using <item name="tabMode">scrollable</item>    you can set tabMode fixed where it can displays all tabs with divided equally If you have Icon with text for your tab you can set app:tabInlineLabel property setting false label will be below icon , true will sh...

If you have same design across app for TextInputLayout you can set app level style for TextInputLayout inside TextInputLayout you can set different properties to theme for TextInputLayout below is the example from material design theme. you can change parent for TextInputLayout from FilledBox to OutlinedBox and other styles can use different properties to customize the design. there is list of properties you can explore on material design website. If you have to different style for some places for TextInputLayout you can always set custom style at layout level xml which will override the app level theme. <resources> <!-- Base application theme. --> <style name ="AppTheme" parent ="Theme.MaterialComponents.Bridge" > <!-- Customize your theme here. --> <item name ="colorPrimary" > @color/colorPrimary </item> <item name ="colorPrimaryDark" > @color/colorPrimaryDark </item...

we have TextInputEditText and EditText for text input in android with compose we have new class that we need to use you can style them with different properties val state = remember { mutableStateOf (TextFieldValue( "Text" )) } Column ( modifier = androidx.compose.ui.Modifier. padding ( 16 . dp )) { TextField ( modifier = androidx.compose.ui.Modifier. fillMaxWidth () , value = state. value , onValueChange = { state. value = it } , errorColor = Color. Red , isErrorValue = false, textStyle = TextStyle( color = Color. Blue , fontSize = TextUnit.Companion.Sp( 26 ) , fontFamily = FontFamily. Monospace ) , inactiveColor = Color. Transparent , activeColor = Color. Transparent , ) } fillMaxWidth to fit to screen size inside column  inactive color and active color above are transparent to hide default bottom border setting active and inactive color wi...

Styling using compose library for new declarative UI. you have to use different properties to style the text some of the property like text color, font style, weight ,  background color, text alignment you can set as below @Composable fun Greeting (name: String) { Text ( text = "Hello $ name !" , style = TextStyle( color = Color. Blue , fontSize = TextUnit.Companion.Sp( 56 ) , background = Color. Yellow , fontFamily = FontFamily. Monospace , fontStyle = FontStyle. Italic , textAlign = TextAlign. Right ) , maxLines = 2 , ) } setting padding you can use modifier property as below if you want to set different padding for start , end , top and end you can set seprate property @Composable fun Greeting (name: String) { Text ( text = "Hello $ name !" , style = TextStyle( color = Color. Blue , fontSize = TextUnit.Compani...