Valentin Hinov

Published in AndroidPub

·Mar 14, 2018

Scroll your Bottom Navigation View away with 10 lines of code

Like many things material design Google introduced Bottom navigation bars on Android via the design library but failed to provide one key component — a scroll behavior for them. This is frustrating because the official material design specs specify that the bottom bar can hide on scroll. For my app…

Android

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Scroll your Bottom Navigation View away with 10 lines of code

Published in AndroidPub

·Mar 1, 2018

Using TravisCI to securely build and deploy a signed version of your Android app.

In my team we’ve started using TravisCI for our projects — namely, for automatically building our app, Curated. We’re happy with the way it integrates with our Github repositories and its easy configurability. It’s also free to use for open source projects — a great quality for any tool. Doing…

Android

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Published in AndroidPub

·Mar 9, 2017

Clearer RxJava intentions with Single and Completable

In almost all RxJava example code and tutorials there is one class that reigns supreme — the Observable. It is the object which makes the whole magic of reactive programming possible. It’s simple — you only have to track 3 events — onNext, onError, and onCompleted and you can apply…

Rxjava

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Feb 21, 2017

Making RxJava code tidier with doOnSubscribe, doFinally and doOnTerminate

I’m a big RxJava enthusiast. As an Android developer, I use it because it helps streamline my development by cutting down on a lot of the boilerplate that’s generally associated with asynchronous tasks. As I got more comfortable with Rx, though, I noticed that a lot of my use cases…

Rxjava

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