Notify RecyclerView On a Specific Item Update
Occasionally when working with RecyclerView, we want to be able to notify on a specific update. We want to know the item position in the...
- Feb 18, 2019
- 4 min
Moshi Polymorphic Adapter & Sealed Classes 🔥How to use Moshi Polymorphic Adapter (+Retrofit)
How to use Moshi Polymorphic Adapter (+Retrofit) to convert Kotlin sealed classes to/from Json I was working on an internal app for our...
- Sep 16, 2018
- 5 min
Who's afraid of Machine Learning? Part 2 : Creating a Machine That Can Learn
Intro to ML (for mobile developers) Last post gave a general overview of ML and why is our brain provides inspiration for it....
- Sep 11, 2018
- 4 min
Who's Afraid of Machine Learning? Part 1 : What do they all talk about?!?
Intro to ML (for mobile developers.) Lately, it seems like everyone is talking about AI, ML, DL… When this hype started, I got a little...
- Feb 2, 2018
- 3 min
Clean, Easy & New- How To Architect Your App: Part 5 — List Update
with Paging Library’s ListAdapter Back to my venues demo app shown on previous posts (part 4, part 3, also check out part 2 and part1...
- Jan 16, 2018
- 4 min
Clean, Easy & New- How To Architect Your App: Part 4 — LiveData Transformations
How to use map() and switchMap() to easily transform the value received from LiveData, for elegant code. In the architecture I presented...
- Jun 7, 2017
- 5 min
Clean, Easy & New- How To Architect Your App: Part 2 — Persistency
Implementing Repository class with Room. Previous post suggested an idea for architecting Android app, using the new Android Architecture...
- May 25, 2017
- 5 min
Clean, Easy & New- How To Architect Your App: Part 1
About a week ago at Google I/O, Google’s Android team announced on a new mindset: it’s time to think about app’s architecture and best...
- Jan 7, 2017
- 4 min
Clean, Easy & New- How To Architect Your App: Part 3 — Network Calls
This is not exactly a direct continuation for the previous posts with the same title (part1, part2, which I’ll get back to soon hopefully...
- Dec 10, 2016
- 4 min
Android Data Providing Structure: In Summary
The relationships between SQLite, ContentProvider, ContentResolver Recently I gave a lecture on using SQLite DB and Content Providers. (...
- Jul 28, 2016
- 2 min
Notifications — Part 3 : Going Custom
Notifications are a very important and powerful tool. Use them correctly — you can significantly increase user engagement. Use them...
- Jul 24, 2016
- 2 min
Notifications — Part 2 : Progress Indicator
Notifications are a very important and powerful tool. Use them correctly — you can significantly increase user engagement. Use them...
- Jul 17, 2016
- 3 min
Notifications — Part1 : Styling
Notifications are a very important and powerful tool. Use them correctly — you can significantly increase user engagement. Use them...
- Jul 3, 2016
- 2 min
To Constraint, Or Not To Constraint?
Creating a great UI experience is a main goal for us as developers. In order to do so, first step is to understand how does the system...
- Jul 2, 2016
- 3 min
Layout Once, Layout Twice — Sold!
Pervious post discussed the way Android measure and layout views, before drawing them to the screen. So we know by now that the layout...
- Jun 30, 2016
- 3 min
Measure… Layout… Draw!
Previous post overviewed the phases in the Android rendering process. This time we would focus on the Measure/Layout phase, which...
- Jun 29, 2016
- 3 min
Rendering — Phase By Phase
Creating a great UI experience is a main goal for us as developers. In order to do so, first step is to understand how does the system...
- Jun 28, 2016
- 2 min
From View To Pixel
Creating a great UI experience is a main goal for us as developers. In order to do so, first step is to understand how does the system...