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Over the last few years Android Developers have established best practises for writing apps: clean architecture, usage of MVVM as primary architectural pattern.
The most discussed topic of 2019 was modularisation. While it brought us a lot of benefits, I’ve discovered some pitfalls, one of them being in-app navigation.
Clean Architecture is a much-discussed topic in recent years not only in the Android community. You can find many articles about it and most of them are devoted to an explanation and implementation of the Dependency Rule, which is the basis of the Clean Architecture. Implementing the Dependency Rule is quite easy but it is also really easy to violate it and it can be really hard to uncover that on the code review. It would be possible to control it better using `package private` visibility or divide app layers properly to separate modules. The problem is that we do not have `package private` visibility in Kotlin and layer modularization does not have to be a good or preferred architecture for our app. But don’t worry! We can use help from the static code analysis tool called detekt and I am going to show you how in this article. I expect that you already know and understand Clean Architecture including the Dependency Rule. If you don’t, I recommend this great article from Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo. (more…)
TL;DR: with colleagues from Ackee we developed RxOauth2, an open source library to handle OAuth with RxJava streams. You may take a look at it directly or read this blog post (part 1 is here) to find out why and how we implemented it.
TL;DR: with colleagues from Ackee we developed RxOauth2, an open source library to handle OAuth with RxJava streams. You may take a look at it directly or read this blog post to find out why and how we implemented it. The second part is coming soon.
Performance matters. It is especially true for audio performance, where you want the audio to be as smooth as possible. In this article I will have a look at various available options you can use in your high performance audio app on Android. But first, we need to understand the motivation behind high performance audio. Why is it important? What problems are we trying to solve? What apps are we actually talking about?
The Material Design 2.0 comes with couple of new and interesting concepts. One of them is the emphasis on shapes of your components. There is one way to create very nice complex shapes in a very simple way which is called MaterialShapeDrawable. Is it useful for app development? Is it easy to use enough? Let’s find out.
Error handling is hard and every developer I know doesn’t like to do it. It’s almost always the last thing to be done in a new project. You have to handle different kinds of errors – from no network connectivity, to servers being down, to user-made validation errors (either local or server-side) all of which lead to a cumbersome correcting process for all parts of the app. I would like to show you our approach to this. (more…)
Reactive programming has become essential for the way we make apps. Most companies today use some sort of a reactive framework, ranging from μFrameworks that implement the most basic Actor model, through hundreds of Future/Promise frameworks with different levels of API richness, all the way up to massive FRP frameworks that introduce a new programming paradigm and shape our application architecture in the process. (more…)
What? Ackee and cooking? Well, not entirely, even though we did show we knew our way around the kitchen at the #dnesnekodim event. However, considering we feel better behind the keyboard, our cookbook will not be about food but about programming. Read about how we prepare the best applications on the Czech scene, what tools we use, as well as all of our secret procedures. (more…)
Why not Java?
The programming world is constantly developing, and so are the programming languages. They tend to become outdated and often aren’t able to compete with modern languages that better suit the needs of the industry. Java has been working hard to keep-up with the introduction of multiple modern features in Java 8, but unfortunately it seems that Android developers won’t be able to use them in the near future (natively). (more…)
