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If you’ve been dying to watch Netflix offline, your life just got better. An update to the official Netflix app lets you download TV shows and movies so you can view them without munching through your data allowance. Anyone who’s dreamed about watching Stranger Things or The Crown on the subway to work, or at […]
This article was originally planned for 🥧 Pi Day, and it clearly ran more than a month late. However, it’s finally complete! Concept This project is once again one of my older projects revived with Jetpack Compose. A couple years ago, I wrote an app that lets you practice and learn the digits of pi […]
As part of the TechEd team, our team’s goal is to enable our technical talent through continuous learning programs. One of the most common programs we work on is new employee onboarding for Engineering and Data Science teams. However, we also constantly think about the broader needs of the engineering organization and, at times, create […]
It’s been more than 6 years since I wrote an original version of this prime table generator. That was back at the very beginning of my coding career, after learning C and SDL in the first semester of university. An archived version of that original project is available here, including the sources, 120 lines of […]
In our previous article about Jetpack Compose, we shared our initial impressions and recommended some learning resources. This time, we’ll take Compose out for a spin by building a basic chat UI implementation with it! Stream now provides a native Jetpack Compose Chat SDK instead of the approach you see in this article. Check out […]
I’ve seen this fancy clock on Reddit a few days ago. Seeing how I took this week to get started with Jetpack Compose, I figured it would be fun to attempt re-implementing that clock with our new Android UI toolkit. A couple hours ago, I’ve seen that Aurimas Liutikas already created a Compose implementation of […]
This is an updated version of an article published two years ago on blog.autsoft.hu. This new version supports non-Android libraries, uses command line GPG handling instead of a specific Windows GUI app, includes new best practices, and uses GitHub Actions for its CI integration. Update, April 2021: addressed new Sonatype infra, moved to using AGP […]
Preview! Heads up: most things covered in this post are in a preview state of some sort. If you want the full technical details on this topic, you can jump to KEEP-226 and its design proposal instead of reading this article. JDK15 introduced a version of sealed classes and interfaces (see JEP 360) in a […]
TL;DR Introducing the new parcelable library which enables using kotlinx.serialization to serialize data into Android Parcels to be passed between different Android Components. Android Parcelable Android’s Parcelable is an object whose values can be written and read from a Parcel. An Android Parcel is a container of values that can be sent between different Android […]
Like before, this will be a mostly personal ramble about things that happened during the year. You’ve been warned. For the usual technical content, please tune in next year. The elephant in the room Let’s just get this out of the way: this year has been absolute rubbish. There’s no going around or sugar coating […]