March 9, 2020
Getting Started with Room on Android
Gone are the days of SQLiteOpenHelper. We live in a new era of Android Development…
March 2, 2020
Using Coroutines with Firebase on Android
It's no doubt that coroutines are taking over as the go-to way to do asynchronous…
February 24, 2020
Top 10 Essential Android Developer Libraries February 2020
It's that time of the year when we round up the 10 best and most…
February 17, 2020
Kotlin Higher-Order Functions
In Kotlin, almost everything is a value that can be stored, including functions, thus they…
February 11, 2020
Shorten Long Type Names with Kotlin Type Aliases
Type Aliasing is one of the many features of the Kotlin programming language. It allows…
February 3, 2020
Android Unit Testing API Calls with MockWebServer
It's no little-known fact that unit testing is a crucial part of development, not only…
January 27, 2020
Android Chat Messenger with Firestore (MVVM Edition) with Dagger, LiveData, and Coroutines
Let's be real. MVVM and Dagger are very important concepts in Android Development. Yet, nobody…
January 13, 2020
Android MVVM, Dagger 2 and Android Architecture Components
The war between MVP and MVVM has been long settled. With the release of Android…
December 30, 2019
Top 9 Android Studio Plugins as of January 2020 (Kotlin Friendly)
Android Studio is undeniably the IDE of at least 99% of all Android Developers. It's…
December 23, 2019
Firebase Chat with Smart Replies (Cloud Firestore & ML Kit)
With the rise of AI becoming a norm in modern apps, many AI-based features are…
December 16, 2019
Instant Chat Messenger with Cloud Firestore
Instant messaging is a feature used in a wide variety of apps. You might just…
November 25, 2019
Google Play Store Violations and Accounts Getting Terminated
The Google Play Store is an ongoing dev-disappointment factor, with an undeniable high rate of…
November 18, 2019
Implementing Dark Theme in your Android App (Android Q)
Undoubtedly one of Android Q's (aka Android 10 or API 29) most notorious features is…
November 11, 2019
3 Ways to use Retrofit with LiveData in the MVVM Android Architecture
Back in the good ol' days of MVP, the combination of RxJava and Retrofit was…
November 4, 2019
Instant Messaging and Chatrooms on Android with Pusher Chatkit
Instant messaging is undoubtedly one of the most widely used features of any app that…