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…
Category: Libraries
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…
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…
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…
Adaptive Streaming is a technique for streaming music / videos on a quality based on available network bandwidth. Slower connections will stream lower quality videos,…
Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin Eric DecaniniAn Android Developer who loves exploring the realm of Android Architecture Components as much as the secrets of cocktail…
Dagger 2 Scopes are something that a lot of people don’t understand. Many people use them without understanding why they’re used, simply because they modelled…
Gone are the days of SQLiteOpenHelper. We live in a new era of Android Development dominated by Android Architecture Components. One of which is the…
It’s that time of the year when we round up the 10 best and most used Android developer libraries of the season. The libraries listed…
If you’re feeling lazy, there’s a TLDR at the bottom. It’s a situation we’re all familiar with. We write one feature, it’s working finely. We…
If you’ve read my Top 10 Essential Android Developer Libraries 2019, you might have noticed EventBus, and this one library does seem to gather a…
With Kotlin being more dominant than ever, Android has grown insanely within the past couple of years! It’s hit that puberty stage where you wouldn’t…
Retrofit has become a very familiar name in the Android ecosystem for a very useful library. One that turns your HTTP API into a Java…
Dagger 2 has been around for quite a while now and still holds up as one of the most valuable libraries for the ecosystem, and…
If you have any basic knowledge of RxJava, you’d know that an Observable is a stream ready to emit data when a Subscriber subscribes to…
(This post is now outdated. Check out The Top 10 libraries as of August 2019) There comes a time in every Android Developer’s blog where…