Check out the rest of the series: Knowing your RxJava Operator Toolbelt 1: Creating Observables RxJava is Java (and Kotlin’s) form of Reactive Programming, and thus Android’s too. It bestows the ultimate power in async operations through the use of observables. If you’re new, check out my Hardly Comprehensive Introduction. RxJava is a powerful tool…
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So you’ve just read an introduction to RxJava (hopefully mine) and now you’re ready to get your hands dirty. You start creating observing then eventually it strikes you: you need to start chaining your observables, combining them, probably even just getting your data into observables. Knowing your observables is only the first part. RxJava has…
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RxJava is an ever increasing-in-demand tool for developers of many platforms even beyond Android. Its most attractive feature comes in the form of performing async operations without the use of callbacks. Instead, Observables and Observers are used in conjunction to emit data (once or multiple times) and include methods of their own to handle what…
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RxFirestoreKT is a great library for combining RxJava (Kotlin) and Firestore together, but what I noticed about Firestore is that it already contains many of RxJava’s advantages as it is. Firestore works asynchronously, it can map documents to POJO objects, and can keep a continuous stream of data flowing, handles errors well, and it does…
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If you know my man Sam Stern who’s popped up a couple times around my Reddit, you probably heard his talk with Kiana McNellis on Integrating back-end systems with Firebase for better app management. This sparked an idea for what could be a new series here on this blog, Firebase In Use where I go over…
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Okay I know I said the Getting Started series has been completely covered and concluded in the Performance Monitoring post. “And that about sums it up for the ‘Getting Started With’ series. I’m preparing a whole variety of changes here at EricDecanini.com that you should be excited about.” Of course, it’s me we’re talking about…
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I may have almost forgotten about my promise in my first Dynamic Links post I never did Until I started working with Dynamic Links again for one of my own upcoming apps where I’m using email-invites as a way for people to collaborate on a single shopping list. If you know Dynamic Links, you know the drill.…
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Chances are, you’re an indie Android Developer. You just finished an app and are about to release it on the Play Store then it hits you: you don’t have a way to get those downloads going. It hits you so hard that you might as well as gone well back in time and and fought…
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We are on the LAST installment in our ‘Getting Started With’ series and it is on performance monitoring! Now there’s a reason why this was the last for me to cover, and probably the last that many of you would pay attention too (but please, correct me if I’m wrong). For many of us, performance just isn’t…
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We all know testing is important. Very important. While it seems simple on the surface, it goes way deep. There are so many different methods of testing like say, unit tests, integration tests, UI tests, the list goes on. In comes Firebase Test Lab which lets you perform a couple of these on real physical devices running in a…
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