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David Odari - Android Developer
Android, Kotlin , software engineering and mistakes.
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The Art of Debugging 🔍
It's been a couple of weeks since I joined my team and hitting the ground running was one of my major concerns in a remote setup. A lot of factors have been at play to result in productivity from the word go, but today I'll be highlighting one area ...
Retrofit: Handling Dynamic URLs
Before we get our hands dirty with some Retrofit, this post assumes you are already familiar with how it works to make simple requests. If you haven't, not to worry you can check this Retrofit introduction by Future Studio and come back to it. Back t...
Save Development Time with Android Studios' File Templates
I remember back in the days when I first worked with recycler views, took me a while to understand what in the world was going on😲. Eventually, I got the hang of it and couldn't wait for an opportunity to flex some brain muscle and write it out of ...
When to use api over implementation.
Recently on my android adventures, I decided to split up a project at work into modules and make my life simpler😃. One of my modules is a themes module that cuts across all modules providing the necessary themes, styles and colours to other componen...
Create Once. Use Everywhere, with Custom Views: Part 4.
We are now done with the custom view and now its time to get this thing packing and going as a library.😎 If you missed out on the previous articles check them out here Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 I'll be using Jitpack to publish it as it integrates seamles...
Create Once. Use Everywhere, with Custom Views: Part 3.
In the previous articles, we've done a bit of setting up and having our custom view interface come to life. To have a recap check out these articles Part 1 Part 2 From here we will be adding responsiveness to our layout and let's begin by adding cl...
Create Once. Use Everywhere, with Custom Views: Part 2.
In the previous article, we saw how to set up an android module/library in a project. For a quick recap checkout the article. Part 1 Next, let's get into creating our simple counter custom view. Create the SimpleCounter class within the simple counte...
Create Once. Use Everywhere, with Custom Views: Part 1
Recently I needed a simple counter for my app, since I had done it before it seemed logical to navigate to one of my projects with the implementation of this simple counter and copy-paste it into my codebase and make any necessary modifications from ...
