In this post I want to take a look at the less sharp and more round DI framework that gets a lot of use in android projects: Koin Koin bills itself as being

I wanted to write about every android developer's favorite code shrinking and obsfucation tool: Proguard. I know that when I was first learning to develop on android that information on what Proguard was,

Last Christmas I looked into a beta version of the Ktor framework and used it to create a really simple restful API. The API allowed you to create "users", "wishlists" and "wishlist items"

Java 11 is hot off the press and it comes with a brand new HttpClient class. Say good-bye to fussing with HttpUrlConnections! Let's dive right in by having a look at how we

Google announced the WorkManager library at I/O 2018 and in this month's post we'll explore the API and see how we can use it to handle some of the most common background

In this post I'll go over how you can bring dagger2 injection to your android app's view model objects. I'll also briefly cover how to make this work in a multi module android

The paging library has come a long way since I first wrote about it last September. It recently had a 1.0 release and so I thought now would be a good time

Let's take a look at the magic of DiffUtil in this month's post. What is DiffUtil? It is a simple class that can help you calculate exactly what items have changed whenever you

In this post we'll explore how we can use docker to automatically setup the Payara application server with a jdbc resource that will securely communicate with a Google Cloud SQL instance and then

Java 9 came out a few months ago and it has brought some of the biggest changes to the Java language in a very long time. In this post we will take an

Let's look at ktor, a new web app framework being developed to take advantage of all the awesome that Kotlin has to offer. In the spirit of the Christmas season I figured we

This month's blog post is a little late so November will hopefully end up with two posts :). Let's look at how quickly and easily we can build a minimum viable video playing app

Update: The paging library has changed a lot since this post. If you want to see an updated example based on the 1.0 release, then click here Android development just keeps getting

Repeatable tested builds are essential to delivering a high quality android app that your users will love. We will look at how we can achieve repeatable tested builds using Jenkins and Firebase Test

Dagger2's 2.10 and 2.11 updates brought Android developers a new set of APIs designed to make injecting Android components even easier. This post will explore how you can take advantage of

Google I/O 2017 was last month and it included a lot of really awesome announcements, especially in the Android world. We'll explore one of those announcements in this blog post as we

In a previous post we showed how you can create compose files to launch multiple dockerized web services at once. We even created a little set of services that were "load balanced&

In this post we will look at how you can create shared element transitions in the android framework. You can see a simple project making use of shared element transitions here. The first

In this post we are going to walk through a brief introduction to Lambdas and streams in Java8. Let's begin by transforming an anonymous inner class into a lambda expression and finally a

In this post we are going to learn how to create a restful web service using SparkJava, Dagger2, and Gradle. If you're an android developer like I am then you probably recognize Dagger2