An Android Developer who makes programming memes on TikTok
4 years ago I was still a kid in high school with a dream that when I finished high school, I wouldn’t go to uni like everyone else but instead I’d start working as a software developer… because I really hated studying And I read… Read More »3 Habits That Made Me A Better Software Developer
This is one of the questions I get asked the most, especially on my TikTok. What programming language should I learn first? As a quick answer, here are the programming languages you should learn based on your field: Web Development → JavaScript Mobile Development →… Read More »What Programming Language Should You Learn First In 2022?
As an Android Developer, a lot of my time everyday is spent waiting for code to compile. For the longest time, I never gave this much thought. I would probably look at my phone, check out all my socials, and by the time I look… Read More »What do you do when you’re compiling code?
Hi guys! Well first things first, for the probably 5 guys who actually tune in to my blog, yeah I haven’t been blogging a lot lately. I’ve been posting a lot more regularly on TikTok and life has been busy to say the least. Over… Read More »Free Premium for anyone who opts in to Shopshop Beta
When it came to dependency injection in Android, it’s no question that Dagger has always taken the lead as the definitive library to use for it. Though setting up Dagger in an app has always been an arduous task, the benefits it presented afterwards are… Read More »Getting Started with Dagger Hilt in an MVVM App (Android Dependency Injection in 2021)
Programming, coding, software development or engineering, whatever you call it, it’s the practice of writing code to deliver a set of instructions to make something run, whether that be a website, an app, a discord bot, a real robot, or even your Roblox game. But… Read More »How to get started with programming (as an absolute beginner)
For the longest time, Mockito has been recognised as the go-to mocking framework for Android, but more recently, Mockk has been gaining more popularity especially with the shift to Kotlin and the adoption of Coroutines. If you’re not already familiar with it, Mockk is a… Read More »Why I’m switching from Mockito to Mockk
“Tiktok saw it first” I’m most active on my Tiktok now, I post memes down there about programming every single day. https://www.tiktok.com/@eric_the_coder So if you enjoy humour based on your pain as a programmer, go give it a follow.
Error-handling with Coroutines has always been a confusing point for many developers, and that’s because of a number of reasons. Not only are there multiple ways to handle them, but the error propagation mechanism that comes with structured concurrency needs to be understood first. And… Read More »Error Handling Coroutines
This is a short one, because there’s only one thing you need to do to make a Retrofit call to work with coroutines. @GET(“/”) suspend fun getQuote(): QuoteResponse Add the suspend keyword and you’re sorted. Call it from other suspend functions and you’re done. That’s… Read More »Using Retrofit with Coroutines (Oversimplified)
Database calls, network calls, heavy-computing calls, all are such functions that pretty much every app requires, all of which must be run asynchronously, usually in a background thread as these functions can take entire seconds to complete and you don’t want to block your main… Read More »Getting Started with Coroutines in 2021
We’re approaching the end of lockdown (fingers crossed) where in one more month, everything will be back to normal. But up until this point, for over a year now, many offices had dispersed into the homes of each and every single one of their employees.… Read More »What It’s Like Working From Home (as a Software Engineer)
Retrofit is the undisputed best way to consume APIs in Android. As for handling async tasks and callbacks, you’re most probably almost definitely using RxJava or Coroutines. Probably both. So if you do need to use RxJava and Retrofit, here’s how to do it. No… Read More »Using Retrofit with RxJava
Why you SHOULD go to University Transcript: In my past two videos, I spoke why you SHOULDN’T go to university, but as with everything, there are always two sides to an argument. There are always pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages. And that applies to… Read More »Why you SHOULD go to university (Video)
Within test modules, RxJava gives you access to a happy little class called the TestObserver. That’s what this is all about. We can get a TestObserver by calling test() on any observable. What this does is it executes your observable as if you subscribed to it,… Read More »Unit Testing RxJava Observables
