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
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
It’s no doubt that coroutines are taking over as the go-to way to do asynchronous programming in Android over RxJava. Many of Firebase’s services use Task objects to perform asynchronous operations of their own, including Firestore, Authentication, Storage, and Remote Config. The standard way proceed… Read More »Using Coroutines with Firebase on Android
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
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
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
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writing this sentence, I got a comment on my Essential Libraries February 2019 post telling me one of my entries was outdated for a 2019 list.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