If you’ve ever followed the Android Auto Codelabs, you’ve seen the “sample” way of building a Car App. It works, it’s functional, but as soon as you try to scale it beyond a simple demo, you hit a ...
The Starting Point: God Object, Custom Singletons, and Lazy Maps In the previous article i talked about how the Ktor backend replaced a God Object BackendComponent with Metro’s compile-time graph....
The Starting Point: a God Object When Rudio was a created a few months ago it used the simplest possible DI: one big object BackendComponent with everything wired manually via by lazy and lateinit...
The Starting Point I know, long title… my creativity turned into lengthy title I recently needed encrypted database storage in my Kotlin Multiplatform app using AndroidX Room. After some research...
Architecture discussions in Android development often spark passionate debates—sometimes garnering both praise and criticism. Writing about these topics isn’t easy, but that’s what makes it worthwh...
After seven years building Android apps, two of which spent leading engineering teams, i’ve learned that good code reviews can make or break a project, maybe not break it dramatically but throw a p...
The Quest for Perfect Navigation in Compose Multiplatform Navigation in Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) applications, especially those using Compose Multiplatform, presents an interesting challenge. ...
Intro Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) enables you to share code across various platforms such as Android, iOS, and JVM. Managing local data consistently across these platforms can be challenging. And...
Intro Every mobile application today ships with static resources like localized strings, images, files, fonts, etc. Resource usage in the KMP (Kotlin Multiplatform) world has been somewhat limi...
Intro Nearly every mobile application nowadays utilizes Firebase in some capacity, whether it’s implementing CRUD operations through their NoSQL database, analyzing A/B tests, or detecting crash...