First look at AndroidX Bluetooth
AndroidX Bluetooth is a new addition to the Jetpack Suite of libraries. While currently in its alpha stage, the system already provides robust safety measures addressing common pitfalls in Android BLE development. Moreover, it establishes a clear trajecto...
Isolated Testing with Test Containers and Spring Boot in Kotlin
Are you using SpringBoot for backend services and looking to integrate TestContainers into your testing setup? If so, then this example should give you an idea of how to achieve it in the shortest amount of time using the least possible configuration to s...
Introduction to Kotlin Coroutines for Android
Asynchronous programming is a technique used to perform long-running tasks without blocking the main thread of an application. This is important in Android, where the main thread is responsible for rendering the user interface and handling user input. Tra...
Introduction to Kotlin Flows
A Kotlin flow is an asynchronous stream of data that you can subscribe to and receive objects one by one or all at once. It's like subscribing to a newspaper. You don't have to go to the newsstand every time and check if they have something new today. You...
Creating custom layouts with Compose -part 2-
In the previous article, we talked about creating custom layouts with Jetpack compose. This article will dive deeper and cover creating a custom modifier with a custom scope. We created a star layout in the previous article and it looked like this: You c...
Navigation parameters, and dynamic startDestination with Jetpack Compose
Our team was recently given the opportunity to work with Jetpack Compose on a brand new project in collaboration with a client who required two separate Android applications. It was successfully released and the client was very satisfied with the end prod...
Creating custom layouts with Jetpack Compose
Classic Android layouts are good for creating general purpose layouts, but when it comes to creating more complex layouts, you might find yourself creating custom views, and with Jetpack Compose it is now easier and more performant than ever to do so. In ...
Safe Navigation With Jetpack Compose
Navigation is the key part of application development and Android is no exception. From Activities and Fragments transitions to Navigation Component and now, Navigation Component is available for Jetpack Compose! In this article, I would like to give a br...
Let it flow
I've been working with Flow on production for almost a year now. The light weight kotlin coroutines stream library has completely replaced RxJava for our new projects. RxJava is still a trend for Android Development even in 2020. But this article is not a...
Building a COVID-19 Tracing app in a week
We wanted to create a prototype app to help people to find out if they contacted anybody infected by the COVID-19 disease. It will use wireless technologies searching near by and notify users. In this post we're going to talk about the thoughts behind thi...
Droidcon London 2019
Droidcon London 2019 We had the opportunity to attend the biggest Android conference in London. It was full of great talks and we will try to highlight here some of which we attended. Quick facts 2 entire days with talks Workshops available 5 tracks at s...
Droidcon Berlin 2019
Droidcon Berlin 2019 Back in July, Lucas and I took a trip to Berlin for the Droidcon 2019 conference. It was the second mobile development conference that I've been to and the first one entirely dedicated to Android, so I had high hopes. In this blog I'd...
Droidcon Berlin and GDD Krakow
Being one of the biggest Android conferences in Europe, this was my first time in Berlin. The conference was taking part in partnership with IFA Berlin. As a perk Droidcon tickets also allowed access to it. The downside was the big amount of people commut...
