Welcome to the Paging 3.0 MAD Skills series! In this article I’ll be introducing Paging 3.0 and highlighting how to integrate it into the data layer of your application. Want to watch and read? Check out the video for this episode here! Why Paging 3.0? Showing lists of…

Second episode in the Paging MAD skills series — Welcome back to the Paging 3.0 MAD Skills series! In the previous article, we went over the Paging library, saw how it fits into the app’s architecture, and we integrated it into the data layer of the app. We did this using a PagingSource to fetch our data, and then…

This you? — I recently downloaded my Twitter archive, and was it a trip down memory lane; I’ve had a Twitter account for almost 10 years! I laughed, reminisced, and also cringed. …

This post is part of a series that shows how Views in android can be represented purely as a function of some state with no side effects helping to build a robust, easy to scale and maintain app with the help of ViewBinding. …

Delegating to delegates with a functional twist — I think Kotlin delegates are underused; they are the best implementation of the “favor composition over inheritance” refrain. In the above, the ListContainer is a List that can be iterated through by delegating to…

This post is part of a series that shows how Views in android can be represented purely as a function of some state with no side effects helping to build a robust, easy to scale and maintain app with the help of ViewBinding. This post is also a follow up…

This post is heavily inspired by Jesse Wilson’s post of the exact same title which I’ve shamelessly lifted. Please give it a read here. This post isn’t a rebuttal, but rather a series of juxtapositions; there is going to be a problem, and two solutions to the same problem will…

One liner xml to stateful RecyclerView.ViewHolder instance — The RecyclerView is an extremely flexible and indispensable Android ViewGroup. It unfortunately requires quite a bit of boilerplate to set up; a fully functional RecyclerView asks that you: Set a LayoutManager Create an Adapter to return the different kinds of view types you may have Specify ViewHolder classes for each…

What if styling spans in Android was fluent and joining them as simple String concatenation? — Spansand Spannables are the fundamental abstraction for text styling and markup in Android. A thorough breakdown of how they work can be seen in detail here: Spantastic text styling with Spans To style text in Android, use spans! Change the color of a few characters, make them clickable, scale the size of the…medium.com