In the following post I’m going to show a simple (almost boilerplate-free) yet powerful implementation of the view models dependency injection on Android using Dagger. If you haven’t read about the latest Android Architecture Components libraries, the MVVM pattern and the ViewModel class yet, please read it first as I don’t explain it here. The…
Docker is a great container platform that helps building a true independence between applications, infrastructure and developers. It provides an isolation which supports building modern continuous integration environments with ease and at low cost. Building Android applications The easiest way to build an Android app is to use Android Studio, but how one can build…
Using vector drawables is often much better than bitmap images for two reasons: they scale without losing definition and you need only one asset file which fits all screen densities. Sometimes I find it useful to create vector drawables by hand in Android Studio using SVG paths. If you are not yet familiar with it,…
React Native is still a hot topic at the company. After spending some time with it, many of us have some thoughts and I think there is still a lot to say about it so I would like to share some of my observations and feelings. This post is going to be extremely subjective so…
Establishing a reliable continuous delivery and deployment process is often very important as it might greatly reduce the length of time needed for the validation and verification of the software product. This is also true for Android projects, especially the ones aimed at short time to market. For me, one of the most crucial time…
The background A few months ago I experienced a weird problem while trying to finish some Android development on my Windows-based PC (I was doing it primarily on a MacBook). I have already described it quite precisely on the JetBrains bugtracker here. Thinking it was system-related issue, I decided to install Ubuntu somewhere on my PC…
