When writing my ViewModels I try hard to make them as Android-independent as possible. But in the real world, that's not so easy. The most common Android system dependency for a ViewModel, is the string resources.…
What if you have your navigation graph with all your screens, but one screen contains a navigation UI (e.g. a bottom navigation bar)? This is a common scenario if you are having some part of the app where users are not required to be logged in, but you switch layout after they log in.…
I was (kind of still am) a big fan of the ABC (Always Be Coding) mantra. So spending all my available free time on coding projects would make me a super-engineer if I kept doing it, right?…
What I want to document here is a pragmatic approach in getting started with Koin in your application, and in your tests.…
There's a case that the ViewModel might get destroyed. That's the system-initiated process death event case. If you want to resume the app to the state before it was killed, you would need to save that state somewhere.…
Android Studio's Espresso Test Recorder is a valuable tool to cut down the time required to write such a test. It's completely visual and provides a great starting point!…
When I was about to start a new Android project I decided it was finally time to look into Kotlin Flows. Maybe everybody was talking about them for a reason.…
I stumbled when recently a friend, an iOS-developer-turning-into-Android-developer, asked me if there's a way to automate the boring task of updating the version code before a new cut.…