Fragments in Android have had a weird history. When I started Android developing in 2015, the way to add a fragment was to use the…
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As apps grow larger in scale, separation of classes by concern becomes increasingly important to keep an app maintainable and as this happens, classes…
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Animation in Android has always been something that intrigued me. When done right, it can really bolster the perceived quality of an app. In fact,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0JNxGay7JY
So I’ve just done my first stream on Twitch, recreating an old app of mine, Dota Soundboard. During it, I found lots of confusion with…
It’s once again… BENCHMARKING TIME We’ll take different JSON Parsers, run them through tests, run them once, run them ten times, run them a thousand…
A couple weeks ago, I benchmarked Gson, Jackson, and Moshi against each other. TLDR: Jackson is a speedy boi. If you’re interested, read the full…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3KrsoIoD9A
A couple weeks ago, I made a post on Gson vs Jackson vs Moshi by comparing them on a more general sense of view with…
I always loved the idea of making comedy sketches, but there are very few YouTubers out there who do any tech-related sketches. The only big…
When it comes to the network layer of pretty much any app, Retrofit is the only constant. When it comes to the JSON Parser used…
https://youtu.be/rh2Ws5cCpMg
Adaptive Streaming is a technique for streaming music / videos on a quality based on available network bandwidth. Slower connections will stream lower quality videos,…
ExoPlayer is a media player for Android initially developed by Google for their own applications, but released as a library for any Android Developer to use in their app to…
After a long 2 month job search, I finally got the job I wanted. During this search, I had a few tech challenges to perform and interviews to face, each…