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Enum classes stir up a lot of controversy in the Android world for a number of reasons, but they still prove to be used by experienced developers day by day. Why is this so? (Heads up: while the syntax of the code here is going… Read More »Kotlin (or Java) Enum Classes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Firebase once again released a new addition to their multitude of tools and services and this tool is, well, A LOT of tools in one. In a package they call Firebase Extensions, we have access to a number of automated tasks that we can install… Read More »Getting Started with Firebase Extensions for Android (Firebase Console Edition)
Learning Version Control is undeniably a must for any Software Developer to learn and Git is one of the best tools to do it, whether they’re working on their own projects or collaborating with others. The power to retain versions of your code, undo destructive… Read More »Basically everything you need to know about Git
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 write another feature, the other one breaks. Often times, we don’t even know it until our users start complaining about… Read More »Unit Testing Android with RxJava and Retrofit
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
Another thing that came out with a bang in I/O this year is Flutter with its 1.5 release. With all the noise surrounding it, I decided to go check it out. So Flutter seems to be a “Portable UI toolkit for building beautiful native-compiled apps… Read More »Getting Started with Flutter
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?