Code quality is incredibly important for the long term maintainability of any software project. I think static code analysis tools as an automated senior engineer that reviews my code.…
Jetpack introduced a new library for initializing objects during app startup in an organized and reliable way.…
The only way to verify that the app is used as you intended, is to instrument your app with analytics. But what and how do you log? I will cover the basics for Firebase Analytics, but check out the documentation for advanced use cases.…
When designing how to handle network calls in your app, you might think that you are done as soon as you define your interface. What happens when not everything goes according to plan?…
I knew that coroutines provide a built-in way for asynchronous work (no need for AsyncTask or RxJava!), but how do I define my network call interfaces?…
The good news is that RecyclerView makes moving and swiping items quite easy. The bad news is that it's a bit confusing to figure it out in the docs.…
So that's all, right? Every time we need to send something to the View we use a LiveData and we are done. Well, not exactly.…
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.…