April 6, 2020
Unit Testing Coroutines on Android
Coroutines are great. They allow us to write asynchronous code as if they were synchronous.…
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…
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…
October 28, 2019
Jetpack Compose: What, Why and How
So I've just been to Droidcon 2019 and it was full of some amazing talks.…
October 21, 2019
Run Python Scripts in the Android Front-end with Chaquopy
The title may already spark some fires, and before you say it, let me acknowledge…
October 14, 2019
Kotlin’s Sealed Class: Enums on Steroids
Sealed Classes vs Enums Sealed classes are another new thing we got in Kotlin that…
October 7, 2019
Kotlin (or Java) Enum Classes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Enum classes stir up a lot of controversy in the Android world for a number…
September 16, 2019
Unit Testing Android with RxJava and Retrofit
If you're feeling lazy, there's a TLDR at the bottom. It's a situation we're all…
September 9, 2019
Kotlin Coroutine Context, Scopes and the Dreaded GlobalScope
Some time ago I did an introduction to Kotlin's Coroutines. While in its early stages,…
June 10, 2019
Firebase ML Kit 9: Object Detection & Tracking
I always thought Adobe After Effects was so cool just for the ability to track…