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…

This is part of a series head-scratching my way into coroutines. It can be read as a standalone although you might be missing out on some spicy memes here and here. Testing ViewModels without losing the will to live A ViewModel “sits” quite close to the activity/fragment. …

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: 👏👏 Kotlin Coroutines Review 👏👏 A callback storymedium.com Where we left off The little repository class fetching a Reddit post works fine (?!) and your pull request is ready.

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: 👏👏 Retrofit review 👏👏 Or how to use Kotlin + RxJava to get some catsmedium.com Source code: CostaFot/android--retro-electro Contribute to CostaFot/android--retro-electro development by creating an account on GitHub.github.com

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: 👏👏 Retrofit review 👏👏 Or how to use Kotlin + RxJava to get some catsmedium.com 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: Android RxJava in 5 minutes These go(o)gles do noffing!medium.com What is an API anyway? It seems like everyone and their mother is running an API on the internets. If you are…