Quick tips for making your RecyclerView & ItemDecorations play along with Window Insets. Quick Intro With the new Android Q gesture navigation and the ever growing screen real estate, it is important to have our app displayed in full screen. Besides being awesome UX to our users, it’s also important to support…

Part II: What? of III (Why?, What?, When?) series — Come and say Hi! 👋 twitch.tv/joaquimley Part II: What? Part I: Why? Part III: When? (coming up) Following up on the first article, this long overdue part II will expand more on what I intend to live stream. At the time of this…

Part I: Why? of III (Why?, What?, When?) series— Come and say Hi! 👋 twitch.tv/joaquimley Part I: Why? Part II: What? (soon) Part III: When? (coming up) While some like to numbly scroll through Facebook, Instagram, insert_your_social_media_of_choice, etc., and there is nothing wrong with that, others try to squeeze every little bit of…

Getting that sweet com.androidx.* might not be as easy as one predicts. 1. Hello Google I/O You can skip to part 3. if you are aware of this year’s Android announcements. This year’s Google I/O was quite surprising for me, I was really happy to know that the whole android team is working hard…

Should you buy it? 13'’ vs 15'’? Or finally switch to a Windows/Linux box? — I’m an Android developer, so this is my main usage for this machine while doing some Photography (Photoshop/Lightroom) and Film (Final Cut) on the side (currently creating content for both linked platforms). There’s a lot of good on this version, but there’s also a lot of bad, let’s dig into…

Runtime permissions, BroadcastReceiver & SmsManger. — Motivation With so many different ways to communicate (I’m 👀 at you Google Developers), one might find odd talking about integrating the old-school SMS service in your app. Truth is, besides the usual 2-step-verification and related services, there are some areas on the planet 🌍 where data is still rare and/or…

Room to LiveData to ViewModel to View. — How reactive ☢ are you? Google announced some awesome tools during #io17. They’re called Architecture Components, I’m going to assume you already know the basics about each, if not you can find videos and official documentation at the end of this article. …

Your project ain’t no GQ but you aren’t Brad Pitt either 😎 So you finally created your open source project, you feel really proud (and you should 👏), and now it’s time to make that repo public and start to get some feedback, you can’t wait to see other people…

My thoughts on a two days of awesomeness event As I sit outside the hotel just across the Business Design Centre, where 2016 droidconUK took place, I think about the last couple of days, how much I’ve learned and the awesome people I’ve me It was my first time in…