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Pref Editor
This article shows you how to eliminate the rebuild-test cycle when working with Android preferences. Pref Editor lets you modify values instantly.
Jun 22, 20258 min read1.1K
Iterator Pattern
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...
May 11, 20234 min read126
Composite Pattern
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...
Apr 17, 20235 min read273
Template Method Pattern - The ViewModel
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...
Mar 22, 20232 min read300
The case for Flutter
tldr; Here's a few hours work -- mostly spent on Flutter's documentation. This' good. Cross Platform Frameworks I once, back in 2015, worked with a cross platform framework, Ionic. This was an app rewrite to native Android. That's it. I avoid any wo...
Nov 5, 20206 min read442
Learning Android/iOS development
Starting out development My first programming language to learn was Visual Basic 6. I had this book that gave a nice introduction to the language with all the Sub…End Sub, Dim title() As String etc. Using forms with drag and drop support, I’d create ...
Apr 26, 202097