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.…
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!…
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.…
Slightly changing an Android app depending on various configurations is quite a common scenario. But what's the easiest way to accomplish this?…
Lottie is an open-source library, initially made by Airbnb, for quickly and easily showing smooth animations in your Android app.…