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It’s no little-known fact that unit testing is a crucial part of development, not only in Android but in pretty much any software development field. The ideal app should have 100% test coverage. Unit tests are supposed to be small, quick to write and fast… Read More »Android Unit Testing API Calls with MockWebServer
Let’s be real. MVVM and Dagger are very important concepts in Android Development. Yet, nobody really knows what’s the ‘right’ way to implement either of them. MVVM is simple enough, at least in its vanilla form. You’d simply follow this dependency diagram. The View knows… Read More »Android Chat Messenger with Firestore (MVVM Edition) with Dagger, LiveData, and Coroutines
The Single Source of Truth (SSOT) principle is an important concept not only in Android, but in pretty much every type of object-oriented programming. The idea of it in an MVVM sense is that the view only receives data from one observable (be it LiveData… Read More »Android Single Source of Truth (SSOT) using View States with MVVM and LiveData
The war between MVP and MVVM has been long settled. With the release of Android Architecture Components, there’s no doubt that MVVM is the definite way to go now. If you don’t know what MVVM is, I recommend checking this out first. In a pure… Read More »Android MVVM, Dagger 2 and Android Architecture Components
Android Studio is undeniably the IDE of at least 99% of all Android Developers. It’s based off of IntelliJ IDEA which is already a powerful IDE for a variety of software development fields. There are a multitude of plugins built for Android Studio itself, but… Read More »Top 9 Android Studio Plugins as of January 2020 (Kotlin Friendly)
With the rise of AI becoming a norm in modern apps, many AI-based features are becoming standard among competent apps. Among these is Smart Replies. Smart Replies is the ability to generate potential replies to a conversation based on its context and the messages that… Read More »Firebase Chat with Smart Replies (Cloud Firestore & ML Kit)
(Check out the MVVM Edition of this tutorial here) Instant messaging is a feature used in a wide variety of apps. You might just be thinking social media apps, but it doesn’t stop there. E-commerce customer services, chatrooms, collaborative Slack or Discord-like apps, the list… Read More »Instant Chat Messenger with Cloud Firestore
Cloud storage is a powerful tool if your app needs to upload photos, videos, documents, or just about any other file. This is especially useful if your app needs features such as profile pics, file attachments, or even just dynamically changing homepage content. Firebase Cloud… Read More »Using Firebase Cloud Storage with Flutter
Flutter is relatively new to the mobile development ecosystem but it’s already proving to be strong competition against Xamarin and React Native. To many developers, it’s already the de facto solution for building cross-platform apps. Cloud Firestore too is a powerful tool at the hands… Read More »Flutter Listviews with Cloud Firestore
The Google Play Store is an ongoing dev-disappointment factor, with an undeniable high rate of complaints throughout the recent months. If you have been around the r/androiddev subreddit, you know exactly what the problem is. “Google Play terminated my account for no reason” “Google Play… Read More »Google Play Store Violations and Accounts Getting Terminated
Undoubtedly one of Android Q’s (aka Android 10 or API 29) most notorious features is Dark Theme. It gives users the option to switch their apps across the whole system to a dark theme. This comes with a few benefits for the user including: Reduced… Read More »Implementing Dark Theme in your Android App (Android Q)
Back in the good ol’ days of MVP, the combination of RxJava and Retrofit was almost an absolute. It only made perfect sense to return API calls as Observables that can be easily mapped and manipulated in ways limited only by imagination. While MVVM can… Read More »3 Ways to use Retrofit with LiveData in the MVVM Android Architecture
Instant messaging is undoubtedly one of the most widely used features of any app that users all across the world make use of. When I make a mention of instant messaging, what probably comes immediately to mind is Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, or even the one… Read More »Instant Messaging and Chatrooms on Android with Pusher Chatkit
So I’ve just been to Droidcon 2019 and it was full of some amazing talks. Among them was the Jetpack Compose talk by Łukasz Wasylkowski and well… it brought a few mixed thoughts really. Let’s start with the what. Jetpack Compose is a new UI… Read More »Jetpack Compose: What, Why and How
The title may already spark some fires, and before you say it, let me acknowledge it before you. I know Python isn’t the best for writing front-end code in most scenarios. Don’t get me wrong, Python is an amazing language on the back-end which allows… Read More »Run Python Scripts in the Android Front-end with Chaquopy
Sealed Classes vs Enums Sealed classes are another new thing we got in Kotlin that Java didn’t give us, but what is it and how can we use it to improve our code? According to kotlinlang.org, here’s the definition of Sealed classes “Sealed classes are… Read More »Kotlin’s Sealed Class: Enums on Steroids