A few years ago Adam outlined 8 steps to keep your API sane in his blog post which I really recommend if you haven’t seen it yet. The second step there, “be liberal in what the app accepts”, is quite a specific one because it is applicable not only to the backend side of the…
In one of my previous posts I have described how to implement a ViewModel factory that was able to provide ViewModels with their dependencies injected, e.g. an API client, and it was good enough for me at that time. Later on, thanks to Piotr, we’ve found out even better and simpler approach with an additional…
Kotlin language provides a nice and clean way to handle nullable variables in code so that it is less error prone. Unless you do it all wrong, of course. lateinit modifier Normally, all non-nullable properties in Kotlin classes must be properly initialized. You can do it in several ways: in primary constructor, in initializer block(s),…
Android resolves language- and culture-specific resources based on the system locale setting. This is a desired behavior that makes perfect sense. Despite it’s officially not encouraged you may still need to write an app that allows the user to change its language without leaving it. In this article I will show you one of the…
Since Kotlin becomes more and more popular, especially amongst Android developers (and it’s officially supported by Google), some people decided to compare its runtime performance with Java. After reading a few articles I wanted to test it myself and now I’m ready to share some of my observations and experiences. What is it about? Microbenchmarking…
