Last week I became a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Android. This was my second attempt at applying and it included me being a part of the Road to GDE program from Google. …

Many developers are unaware of a platform called the Google Developers Dev Library and what it is about. I was one of those people and after finding out I was able to have my open-source Android app featured on the platform. …

At the beginning of this year, I embarked on a journey of migrating my large Android app to Jetpack Compose. My approach has been gradual, tackling one screen at a time until the entire app is fully migrated to Jetpack Compose. This article will be part of a series of…

A while back I wrote an article about how to set up wireless ADB debugging using the command line. Today, in the latest release of Android Studio called Bumblebee, a new and much easier wireless debugging tool has been released into the IDE. This tool, however, currently only works for…

The amazing list of product offerings is not the only thing Android developers look forward to after Google I/O as there is also the live Q&A session known as #AskAndroid. The aim of this session is to afford developers around the world the opportunity to ask Modern Android Development (MAD…

Jetpack Compose recently got released to production and its release was accompanied with great anticipation. This new toolkit helps developers accelerate UI development in a much simpler way, eliminating the traditional XML-based UI definitions. There are two ways to integrate Jetpack Compose — in a fresh app (which is probably…

One of the many issues encountered by developers using Android Studio is the amount of CPU power consumed by Android Studio’s emulator. On my Macbook for example, I can hear my CPU fans going crazy as the emulator boots up and with every passing time, my battery percentage dwindles rapidly…

In March 2020 I participated in the #BuildForCOVID19 Global Hackathon which was a call for developers from around the world to come together and build software solutions aimed at addressing the challenges that came about as a result of Covid-19. As part of my team I was tasked to build a prototype Android app and with a short development time of three days I used Android Jetpack’s components to make this happen. In this talk I gave at GDG Cape Town, I go into detail of how I used Android Jetpack provided the accelerated development I needed to be able to build the prototype in such a short space of time.

Covid-19 has affected the world in a very devastating way. Many countries around the world are recording increases in positive cases on a daily basis. These cases and deaths due to the pandemic has resulted in many governments around the world instituting measures aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19…