In the last post, we read about Bound services and how their lifecycle depends on the component which binds to them. There is a second kind of service, called started services, whose lifecycle is independent of any component. They may continue to run in the background for an indefinite time. …

Services is the Android component which is used to perform long-running background tasks. There are other Android components which run in the background too, like Broadcast receiver and JobScheduler, but they are not used for long running tasks. Matter of fact, a broadcast receiver, though runs in the background, need…

Static analysis (or static code analysis) is an analysis run on the source code, against some set rules, even before the program runs (usually even before the unit tests). This is a kind of debugging that is done without even running the program and this is usually the first step…

Singleton pattern is definitely the easiest pattern of all the design patterns but trust me, many of us are doing wrong. So let’s find out more about this pattern. We all know the motivation of using Singleton pattern. It’s a pattern which allows us to have only a single instance…

When was the last time you thought that you are going to get fit? Or you are going to start a new business? Or cried “Enough is enough” ? You were so determined to get in shape, work on your financial only to find out that after some days, you…

If you’ve worked with RxJava/RxKotlin, you might be familiar with three methods of a subscriber. onNext , onError and onComplete. In a reactive stream, elements are consumed by onNext first, and onComplete is called when the stream ends. If you encounter any error in onNext, the complete observable chain is…

Location services on handheld devices have transformed this world. Several billion dollar companies like Uber exist because of it. Location services provide contextual information keeping in mind your current location. It could be search results, place recommendations, restaurants near you etc. We call this facility Android Location Services, which consists…

Schedulers are one of the main components in RxJava. They are responsible for performing operations of Observable on different threads. They help to offload the time-consuming onto different threads. In this post we will learn the types of schedulers and when to use the different types. IO — This is…

To understand Flowables, we need to understand Observables first. Observables are those entities which we observe for any event. Observables are used when we have relatively few items over the time and there is no risk of overflooding consumers. If there is a possibility that the consumer can be overflooded…