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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)
Exactly 21 hours ago from when I’m writing this sentence, I got a comment on my Essential Libraries February 2019 post telling me one of my entries was outdated for a 2019 list. If he said it was Butterknife, sure I’d probably agree (I admit… Read More »Coroutine Basics: Asynchronous Programming with Kotlin
If you have any basic knowledge of RxJava, you’d know that an Observable is a stream ready to emit data when a Subscriber subscribes to it. A Subject is well, both an Observable and a Subscriber. It can subscribe to one or more observables, and… Read More »Understanding RxJava Subjects and their Different Types
If there’s one thing that had a drastic change in the way I develop apps, it’s learning about Android architecture. Sure, I learned a few libraries in my journey, RxJava, Firebase, Retrofit, and they all helped, but nothing completely changed the way I write code… Read More »Android Architecture for the Simple Mind: MVVM (Model, View, View-Model)
Android Q Beta 2 is out now for us to test with, see what new developments they’ve made to the ecosystem and how it affects our apps. Images are now available for us to run our emulators with, as for physical devices, it is already… Read More »Android Q Top New Features (as of Beta 2) and what they mean for Developers
It’s been almost a year since the release of Firebase ML Kit and the team brought some neat changes to the package: 4 new AI models to do with Natural Language and Preparation for Production. Of course, as one who advocates the ease of use… Read More »Firebase ML Kit 7: Language Identification & Smart Replies
For the caveman who have yet to know what an index is, a database index is a value stored that maps items in the database to their locations. In other words, this lets queries happen faster as without an index, a query would have to… Read More »Understanding Cloud Firestore Indexing
We’ve all seen it at least once before: that little extra layer of security when we create an account on Gmail, Netflix, and possibly on every login into our online bank accounts. A verification code is sent to our device which we have to enter… Read More »2-Factor Authentication (Email/Password & Phone with Firebase Authentication on Android
It’s probably common knowledge right now that doing a standard email-password authentication in Firebase is piss easy. The same can’t be said about using it’s various providers, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Play Games, Github, etc. and that’s because each one requires its own unique set up… Read More »Signing into Firebase Authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google
Firebase provides us 3 plans for their pricing: the free Spark plan which gives generous allocations to most of their products for many hobbyists and indie developers; the fixed Flame plan which costs $25/month to give a project bigger allocations to Firebase product usage; and… Read More »Managing Firebase Costs
(This post is now outdated. Check out The Top 10 libraries as of August 2019) There comes a time in every Android Developer’s blog where they have to talk about LIBRARIES. Not just any libraries, but the libraries that you’ll see as an essential on pretty… Read More »Top 10 Essential Libraries for any Android Developer February 2019
Following the finale of the Knowing your RxJava Operator Toolbelt series, you’d think that we’ve covered a huge part of the RxJava ecosystem, but well eurghuehue. C’est wrong! RxJava’s operators are only the surface of the library. Let’s go back to the roots of how RxJava… Read More »A Guide to Multithreading in RxJava (and observeOn vs subscribeOn)