Introduction Last week, the Swift for Android working group announced that Swift now supports Android. This is an exciting milestone for developers who want to leverage Swift's powerful features in Android development. To help developers explore this...
In my previous article, I introduced the Swift Android Gradle Plugin that simplifies integrating Swift code into Android projects. To demonstrate the plugin in action, I built a sample Android app that generates fractal images using Swift and renders...
Taking Flight with Android XR: Building a Jetliner Demo I spent the last few days exploring Android XR, Google's latest platform for extended reality applications. After working through the documentation and experimenting with the SDK, I built a demo...
This article shows you how to eliminate the rebuild-test cycle when working with Android preferences. Pref Editor lets you modify values instantly.
The Iterator design pattern is a well-known and often-used pattern. It allows us to access elements in a collection without the need to know about the underlying storage details. We get this functionality from an object known as an iterator of the co...
The composite design pattern allows us to create a tree structure of objects. The key idea with the pattern is that given a root component, we can access all nodes in the structure. Such access is granted using a common interface that refers to eithe...
The concept of Ownership is no doubt one of Rust's most unique feature. I recently worked on a command line program using Rust and encountered a scenario where I couldn't get Ownership right. In this article, we discuss a similar scenario and my solu...
Rust is the most loved programming language according to this StackOverflow developer survey. From its consistent ranking, 7 years in a row, it seems Rustaceans are benefiting from the performance, reliability and productivity the language provides. ...
In this article, we'll go over the template method pattern and take a look at the Android ViewModel class as an example implementation of the pattern. The ViewModel The ViewModel is an application architecture component we've come to love and talk ab...
