Some time ago I did an introduction to Kotlin’s Coroutines. While in its early stages, coroutines is taking over the Android Dev ecosystem as a new lightweight method of asynchronous programming which already gives it an edge against its Reactive counterpart. Within coroutines are 2… Read More »Kotlin Coroutine Context, Scopes and the Dreaded GlobalScope
Face it. No matter how good of an Android Developer you are, if you don’t know at least a bit on how to write tests, your value drops far down below. When it comes to Test-Driven-Development in Android, there are 4 tools known to be… Read More »Getting Started with Robolectric: Exploring TDD with Android
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 little controversy. In case you’re completely new to it, EventBus lets you broadcast events that can be heard anywhere within… Read More »EventBus for Android in 4 Easy Steps
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 even recognize it from a couple years ago. With that, in addition to more libraries becoming the norm, architecture being… Read More »Top 10 Essential Android Developer Libraries August 2019
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 (or Kotlin) interface. In layman’s terms, it makes loading APIs into POJOs ridiculously simple and we’re going to be following… Read More »Ridiculously Simple Guide to Getting Started with Retrofit
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 for good reason. Android is one of those coding environments where tons of classes interact with each other endlessly. If… Read More »Getting Started with Dagger 2
Test Driven Development is a major skill for any Android Developer. It saves debugging time, prevents users from running into bugs and keeps the app easy to maintain among many other benefits. I knew that there are 4 big technologies I had to learn if… Read More »From 0 to Test-Driven: Mockito Fundamentals
Architecture has been no small topic in Android. By simply managing where our logic and data is contained, our app suddenly becomes more functional and testable. We become able to leverage the full extent of libraries like RxJava and LiveData. Most of us must have… Read More »Android Architecture: MVC vs MVP vs MVVM
I stumbled upon Firebase’s video of their 2019 progress and we can see that they’ve done a lot. One of the new features they’ve released completely under my radar is the new Audience Builder and I have to say it is looking slick! Right off… Read More »The New Firebase Audience Builder: User Segmentation News
I’ve been looking at the jobs going around in the Android community and many of them require the same high-value skills that are a powerful add-on to any developer’s toolkit. One of them is Test-Driven-Development or TDD: a form of extreme programming that relies on… Read More »An Introduction to Test-Driven-Development (TDD) for Android
It’s June time and Android Q Beta 4 has been released! This is the update they finalized all the Developer APIs and have the official API 29 SDK done. This is the calling to all us developers that it is critical that we get our… Read More »What’s New in Android Q Beta 4?
I always thought Adobe After Effects was so cool just for the ability to track moving objects. I never got around to learning After Effects myself, but what I do know is how to deploy a ML model that does the same job…. minus the… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 9: Object Detection & Tracking
A month past I/O and I’ve only just discovered they’ve expanded the ML Kit yet again with some of the neatest additions yet. The first of which being ML Kit’s Translation and it’s pretty much what it sounds like. You pass in some text and… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 8: Text Translation
Google I/O 2019 unveiled a lot about Jetpack, also known as Android X including the new Android X Preferences, SavedState with View Models, and even the new Camera X library. For some of us (including me), this might have been the first time hearing about… Read More »Introduction to Android Jetpack and its Components
So Google I/O 2019 just passed a couple weeks ago and to no surprise, in one of their very many talks, they brought up Kotlin’s new asynchronous feature: Coroutines. Coroutines in a nutshell for those who don’t know: They workaround the use of callbacks by… Read More »Coroutines vs RxJava: The Way Forward with Asynchronous Programming for Android
Google I/O this year ended last Thursday and many exciting things were unveiled both for the end user and for the Android Developer. There were a few things for developers to meet that could mean more hours per app, but for the most part, tons… Read More »Google I/O 2019 for the Android Developer in a Nutshell (Android Q Beta 3 and More)