Kotlin Coroutines 1.4 is here, as is another chance to stave off boredom.
StateFlow
Imagine we have a fragment that is interested in a todo task from the classic JsonPlaceHolder API.
Since we are working with flow, we need to launch a coroutine to collect it.
A small button will…
Flow is fun to play around with.
In short, it represents a cold stream of values. Kind of like my typical afternoon at the pub drinking a stream of too many cold ones.
Aside from looking at memes all day we might as well write some code.
FlowGuy seems…
🤖::execute order process death::🤖
The android framework has a curious case of killing any app that’s in the background for more than a few minutes.
Take this for example:
The RedditViewModel is responsible for fetching a post from Reddit while the calling activity/fragment is responsible for observing the redditPostData variable.
Once the post…
Or how to pretend you know what you are doing on pull requests
This is part of a series head-scratching my way into coroutines. It can be read as a standalone although you are missing out on some stale memes on the other one:
Where we left off
The little repository class fetching a Reddit post works fine (?!) and your pull request is ready.
Hol’…
Concurrency on Android has been weird to say the least.
By default, Android handles UI work on the main thread. Any operation that does not “touch” the UI should preferably be off-loaded to someone else.
A lot of effort has gone in fixing that issue in the past: Executors, Handlers…
Or how to use MVVM to get some cats so your code is not all over the place
This is the second mem- ehhh part in the “👏👏 Retrofit review 👏👏” series.
You can find part 1 here:
Source code:
Previously on Meme Review
After copy pasting everything like any self respecting Stack Overflow user, we reached a point where everything works.. but looks kind of.. meh.
Everything is thrown in…
Or how to load images from the internets when you don’t know what you are doing
This is a spin-off to the “Retrofit review” article I wrote a while back.
You can find it here:
What is Glide anyway?
Glide is an image loading library developed by people smarter than me.(granted, I’m not very bright)
You can check out the official docs (https://github.com/bumptech/glide) …
Or how to use Kotlin + RxJava to get some cats
This is a spin-off of the “Android RxJava in 5 minutes” article I wrote a while back and has stuff that you might find useful for this one.
You can find it here:
What is an API anyway?
It seems like everyone and their mother is running an API on the internets. If you are…
This is a kind-of a sequel of the “Android RxJava in 5 minutes” article I wrote a while back and has stuff that you might find useful for this one.
You can find it here:
Research says that 50% of what you need to know as an android dev is…
