Android Arch component has 2 types of view model. One is ViewModel and AndroidViewModel, differnce between those 2 is first one does not…

Deep dive into how custom views work and how you can create one.

If we want to create better apps, I believe that we need to follow material design guideline.In general terms, Material design is a…

My life with Android

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Application performance is always a problem for the everyone developing Android application. Because, if we realize that our application is…

Improve performance by reducing unnecessary rendering.

In our daily pursuit of building better apps, we as developers need to take many things into consideration in order to stay on track, one…

Most Android Developer know that the best practices from Google for Android aren’t very practical. They are still promoting AsyncTask as…

Maybe some of you not familiar with compose in RxJava or maybe just know this feature. RxJava is a library for composing asynchronous and…

The SOLID principles acronym was introduced by Michael Feathers for the principles that were defined by Robert C.

I've got a communication issue with my colleague, let's call her Alice. Alice seems to feel superior to me just because she is about 20 years older than me. We were hired for the same position at the

SpannableTextViews are used in Android to highlight the particular portion of text with different colors, styles, size and click event in a Single TextView. This can be used for inflating rows in…

RecyclerView is a really useful way of displaying content in list form, particularly when the content is dynamic and / or there are large numbers of items. One thing that can be really useful is that

The idea of Loaders never really caught on. They were introduced with Honeycomb around 2011. It was a solution to a problem that we…

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To make Android development with Kotlin more clear, pleasant and idiomatic when working with framework classes, we created Android KTX - A set of extension…

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Here's a sketch of how one could listen to connectivity changes on Android via an Observable of NetworkInfo: val networkInfo: Observable = ... networkInfo .map { it.isConnected } .subscribe { onConnectivityChange(it) } While it works as expected,…