If there’s one thing that had a drastic change in the way I develop apps, it’s learning about Android architecture. Sure, I learned a few libraries in my journey, RxJava, Firebase, Retrofit, and they all helped, but nothing completely changed the way I write code than, well, changing the fundamentals of how you write. Changing…
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Android Q Beta 2 is out now for us to test with, see what new developments they’ve made to the ecosystem and how it affects our apps. Images are now available for us to run our emulators with, as for physical devices, it is already compatible with all the Pixel devices. Android Q introduces support…
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So this one’s going to be a bit different, and a little more serious. Over the past few months, my blogs have been all over the place. Eric Decanini as a blog started out by explaining each Firebase tool and service and put it in a way that would be easy to understand for even…
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It’s been almost a year since the release of Firebase ML Kit and the team brought some neat changes to the package: 4 new AI models to do with Natural Language and Preparation for Production. Of course, as one who advocates the ease of use of AI so endearingly as long as it doesn’t destroy…
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For the caveman who have yet to know what an index is, a database index is a value stored that maps items in the database to their locations. In other words, this lets queries happen faster as without an index, a query would have to crawl through items in the database one by one and…
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We’ve all seen it at least once before: that little extra layer of security when we create an account on Gmail, Netflix, and possibly on every login into our online bank accounts. A verification code is sent to our device which we have to enter to get past that glorious second layer. If you want…
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It’s probably common knowledge right now that doing a standard email-password authentication in Firebase is piss easy. The same can’t be said about using it’s various providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Play Games, Github, etc. and that’s because each one requires its own unique set up which isn’t always so straightforward. Today, I’m going to focus…
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Firebase provides us 3 plans for their pricing: the free Spark plan which gives generous allocations to most of their products for many hobbyists and indie developers; the fixed Flame plan which costs $25/month to give a project bigger allocations to Firebase product usage; and the wild Blaze plan whose cost scales with your usage of it.…
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There comes a time in every Android Developer’s blog where they have to talk about LIBRARIES. Not just any libraries, but the libraries that you’ll see as an essential on pretty much every job you’ll be applying for. Even if this ain’t the case, it’s undeniably that these are the libraries that will help you out…
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Following the finale of the Knowing your RxJava Operator Toolbelt series, you’d think that we’ve covered a huge part of the RxJava ecosystem, but well eurghuehue. C’est wrong! RxJava’s operators are only the surface of the library. Let’s go back to the roots of how RxJava describes itself on its website: A library for composing asynchronous…
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