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In previous installments of this series we laid out our state mocking system, and how we built UI integration testing on top of it. In this article we go into depth on how the system is architected, how idle detection is approached, and how errors are gracefully handled. This includes a fair amount of implementation […]
The Android Authority Podcast – discussing topics in Android every week. The Android Authority Podcast brings you all the top stories and features based on your favorite mobile operating system: Android. We help make Android more accessible to all, and dive deeper into the details when we can, there’s something in here for everyone. […]
My previous post included this paragraph: let vs const vs var: Usually you want let. If you want to forbid assignment to this variable, you can use const. (Some codebases and coworkers are pedantic and force you to use const when there is only one assignment.) This turned out to be very controversial, sparking conversations […]
Accessing values from an array using subscripts is a light and easy way to fetch list data. Kotlin brought uniformity in data access across regular arrays and Lists by allowing us to access data from a List using subscripts. But, what about our custom data models? Can they have subscripts if they mostly represent a […]
OnePlus has a concept phone coming to CES and Samsung has a Star Wars phone out now. The Snapdragon 865 finally beat its Apple counterpart – kinda. The New York Times investigated the location data obtained from a data mining company and it’s scary AF. Ring security is basically non-existent, and Google wants to climb […]
Header Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash Modularizing your Android projects can bring a number of different advantages to your team. Some of these include reduced build times, a greater separation of concerns and the ability to reuse components throughout our applications. As we started to get more and more modules in our projects, I […]
Book Review Author : Margaret Atwood Genre : Literary Fiction/Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher : Penguin Random House Year of Publication : 2019 Number of Pages : 401 My Rating : 5 out of 5 This book is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. It is set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s […]
During my first few years of using JavaScript, I felt like a fraud. Even though I could build websites with frameworks, something was missing. I dreaded JavaScript job interviews because I didn’t have a solid grasp on fundamentals. Over the years, I’ve formed a mental model of JavaScript that gave me confidence. Here, I’m sharing […]
When asked about data structure and algorithm for an iOS development role, there is always this idea that it’s not a knowledge needed. Swift got already native data structure, right? Isn’t the rest only UI components? That’s definitely not true. Let’s step back and discuss about data structure and algorithm applied to iOS development. If […]
To learn to create evocative light with flash, it helps to better understand how we experience the continuous light we see every day. To do that, you’ll need to wean yourself from auto white balance, and even to abandon familiar waypoints like your daylight WB preset. Because our goal is to learn to exist in […]