The latest articles on DEV Community by Niveth Saran (@nivethsaran). https://dev.to/nivethsaran https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F192316%2Fbcec477f-d717-403a-922e-296bd464c40f.jpeg https://dev.to/nivethsaran en Niveth Saran Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:37:06 +0000 https://dev.to/nivethsaran/secret-github-feature-224i https://dev.to/nivethsaran/secret-github-feature-224i <p>I am pretty sure most of you might have figured this out by now, but for the ones who still haven't tried this out, go to GitHub and create a repository with the same name as your GitHub username. Initialize this repository with a Readme and head to your GitHub profile to see something like this 👇🏽👇🏽</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--n5Kj88n---/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tnbds635ffi4m88zn78n.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--n5Kj88n---/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/tnbds635ffi4m88zn78n.png" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p>Try this out and share your comments below :)</p> github trick Niveth Saran Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:07:43 +0000 https://dev.to/nivethsaran/my-journey-so-far-as-a-android-dev-24ng https://dev.to/nivethsaran/my-journey-so-far-as-a-android-dev-24ng <p>Hi everyone, my name is Niveth Saran and this is my first post in this platform. Feedback, suggestions and comments are appreciated so that I can improve on it. I am a final year B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering student from India. I was good at Java, so, I started to learn Android App Dev to develop apps for Android devices. </p> <h1> How I started? </h1> <p>I started learning android from the Udacity courses by google. I learnt about the lifecycles, activities and fragments and other basic stuff. I did mini projects like TODO Lists and Reminder Apps as a beginnner.</p> <h1> Where I started facing trouble? </h1> <p>After learning the above said basics, I tried to contribute to open source projects. Most of these open source projects on github had MVVM architecture which I was unfamiliar with. So many concepts were new to me, at one point I started feeling that, I did it all wrong so far.</p> <h1> What I did next? </h1> <p>I followed a youtube channel named CodingWithMitch and started learning MVVM Architecture, Jetpack Architecture and also a little bit of Kotlin. Now I am pretty clear with the basic concepts and I am trying to work on a proper android project. </p> <p>Also, I started learning flutter. So many friends of mine started using flutter, So I decided to give it a try and it is really cool and also easy to learn and implement too.</p> <p>So, that's pretty much about my journey so far in the App Dev domain.. </p> introduction android java beginners