Kotlin to Scala. Scala to Kotlin. Two contenders for my heart. In the left corner, we have the new comer! Weighing in at just over 1.2MB — The Ambassador of Android: Kotlin! And in the right corner, we have the long-time favorite, weighing in at just over 5.3MB — The Archduke of Akka, The Sultan […]
Android’s SurfaceFlinger is a system service provided on the Android Operating System. Now that that is out of the way… What does it actually do? If you’ve worked with scrolling, you’ll know that “flinging” is an action that a user can do, but it’s not related to that. Actually, the SurfaceFlinger is a service that […]
Figuring out when to use dimensions in Android can be a tricky time. Should all values be a dimension? How about none of them? You could argue that both of these are valid, but I’d like to clear the air with the statement “sometimes you should use dimension values.” But how do you know when? […]
It’s very common to find yourself working with Arrays in any language, and PHP is no exception. If you’re reading this, you probably want to find out how to add to an array in PHP but there’s one thing to cover first! Unlike most other languages, arrays in PHP are just an ordered map! Let’s […]
Let’s face it — Fragments are a pain to test and it’s predominantly due to how the Android operating system works. Sometimes, you’ll find yourself writing business rules regarding how a view is displayed. Likely, some data will come back from a web server and you’ll have to format some text differently or color something […]
A few years ago, I interviewed for a Dev Ops position at a pretty prominent CI shop in San Francisco. Part of the interview process involved a take-home code-assignment (of course). This particular assignment is known as the Gilded Rose. The Gilded Rose isn’t a fizzbuzz. It’s not “Implement a Trie” in whatever language you […]
I’ve been working on a Ktor api for a while now and found myself needing to make sure my routes had access to my repositories. Naturally, I sought out the advice of anyone who’s implemented Dagger with Ktor. After digging for a bit, I realized that it was completely unnecessary and likely overkill. Dagger works […]