Jetpack Compose: ViewModels
If you are have developed Android apps chances are you are familiar with ViewModel and unidirectional data flow. But how does this paradigm fits into this new Jetpack Compose world?…
Jetpack Compose: intro & basic layouts
Jetpack Compose is the latest and greatest way of designing UIs in the Android world. It offers a declarative way of building UIs using only Kotlin code.…
Kotlin JSON serialization crash course
So you want to quickly convert your Data classes to JSON and vice-versa. Kotlin provides a built-in way for serializing to and from JSON.…
Make your Android code healthier: Static code analysis tools for Kotlin
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.…
Handling network call errors in Kotlin
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?…
Network call interface in Kotlin
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?…
Pragmatic Koin crash course: my two cents
What I want to document here is a pragmatic approach in getting started with Koin in your application, and in your tests.…
Into the Flow: Kotlin cold streams primer
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.…