It might not seem like an intuitive choice, but there are a couple of good reasons why you might consider using hive over shared_preferences for storing UserDefaults / Preferences: Why Performance Hive is overall faster. …

Subtle oversights with more or less serious consequences - even if you’re not making these mistakes it should be worth keeping them in mind to avoid running into some problems in future. This article covers: Leaking LiveData observers in Fragments Reloading data after every rotation Leaking ViewModels Exposing LiveData as…

Architecture Components (AC) brought us LiveData, a lifecycle-aware observable data holder class - the idea is great and sounds super handy. The thing is, once we start using it multiple problems emerge: Additional code onChanged parameter in Observer interface is annotated as @Nullable so we must always handle null case in our…