An Android Developer who makes programming memes on TikTok
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 performance being only one of the 3 criteria. In that section, comparing their performances, I decided to use 3 other… Read More »Benchmarking Gson vs Jackson vs Moshi 2020
I always loved the idea of making comedy sketches, but there are very few YouTubers out there who do any tech-related sketches. The only big name I can think of is Joma Tech. So for that reason, and also because it’s simply good fun filming… Read More »CSS Styling In Real Life
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 to serialise data objects into requests, or deserialise responses into data objects, we have a few contenders. Enter: Gson –… Read More »Gson vs Jackson vs Moshi: The Best Android JSON Parser?
Adaptive Streaming is a technique for streaming music / videos on a quality based on available network bandwidth. Slower connections will stream lower quality videos, while faster connections will stream the best quality videos they can stream without taking too long to buffer. Think of… Read More »Adaptive Streaming with ExoPlayer on Android
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]ExoPlayer is a media player for Android initially developed by Google for their own applications, but released as a library for any Android… Read More »The Definitive Way to Play Videos on Android: ExoPlayer
After a long 2 month job search, I finally got the job I wanted. During this search, I had a few tech challenges to perform and interviews to face, each with their own unique set of challenges. But let’s focus on the tech challenges. This… Read More »Mistakes I made in Tech Challenges as an Android Developer
Before the Kotlin era of Android, the development ecosystem was completely different. Not only with the overhaul of a new fresher language to build for the platform with, but with ever evolving libraries as well, some of which have become mainstream in recent years. If… Read More »Android Developer 2020 Skillset – What you need to know to get any job / Android Trends
There is no more heated battle in the Android community than the choice of which is the best architecture. Which is the definitive best and the one that EVERY and I mean EVERY developer should go for. But really in the end, it all boils… Read More »Battle of the Android Architectures: MVP vs MVVM vs MVI
MVP and MVVM are both pretty prominent, and nowadays, quite standard in the Android community but one other popular architecture has made a name for itself, and that’s MVI. MVI stands for Model-View-Intent. Intent in this case isn’t the Android Intent used to start activities,… Read More »Understanding How and Why: The MVI Android Architecture
Note that this cheat sheet will explain everything using text.setSpan. The code that around this should resemble something like this. val text = SpannableString(“Hello World”) text.setSpan(…) textview.setText(text, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE) Bold text.setSpan( StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.BOLD), 0, 3, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE ) Italic text.setSpan( StyleSpan(android.graphics.Typeface.ITALIC), 0, 3, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE ) Bold Italic text.setSpan(… Read More »Android Textview Spannable Cheat Sheet
Transcript 2 years ago, in October 2018, after a rather inspirational trip to France, I decided to start my blog at EricDecanini.com where I talk about all things Android. Currently, the blog has over 4k unique monthly visitors, and although this isn’t to the… Read More »3 Reasons why EVERY Software Developer should have a blog
There was a time where we had to use WebView to play YouTube videos in app. It worked, yes, but it was well clunky. WebView isn’t particularly known to have great performance, and you don’t have too much programatic control of the video itself. But… Read More »Embed YouTube Videos in Android with YouTube Android Player API
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]During these uncertain times, Android Developers are busier than ever as work from home becomes the new normal. This means build power and… Read More »Android Studio 4.0: The best Android Studio release yet?
