Script Editor can be used to automate mundane things or convert a simple shell script to a Mac app. I’m using Script Editor for a few such cases. Proguard GUI I’m an Android developer and I often have to use the Proguard retrace tool to retrace obfuscated stack traces. …

Jetpack DataStore allows us to store minimal key-value pairs or typed objects and acts as a replacement for SharedPreferences. It fixes all the downsides of SharedPreferences and uses Kotlin Flow to provide a flexible experience. The official documentation is a good place to start learning about Jetpack DataStore. Jetpack DataStore…

Let’s see how we typically log something in Android using Java before Kotlin.

Robolectric is a great tool to test classes that depend on Android views and classes properly. I use Robolectric heavily to test custom view logic. I wrote a custom view to mimic TextInputLayout with some added app specific features. I also did the hint to label and label to hint…

Hope you all heard about data binding. If not, head out here and check it out. So one usage of Data Binding is replacing findViewById and another one is, binding data obviously. The true power of data binding comes when we use it with Observables (ObservableInt, ObservableBoolean, ObservableField etc..). Instead…

Android Development is evolving rapidly now more than ever since Google announcing Kotlin as official language, releasing Architectural Components and lot of libraries becoming a de facto standard for developing modern applications like RxJava, Dagger etc. You need to stay up to date with these trends which would be very…

If you don’t know what databinding is , head over to the documentation and read about it. Simply, data binding is a glue between your ViewModel and your view. It generates all the boilerplate to get the text from you view model and set in on textView, get the url…

RecyclerView has it’s own way of creating views and binding data using ViewHolder pattern. In data binding, it is recommended that each view should contain separate viewModel class and the logic for that view should be contained inside that ViewModel class. So using data binding, we already contain the logic…

Let’s deal with it. In almost every app, we need this kind of circular image as a profile image for people. We should show the image with…