A few days ago I wrote an article on how to implement form validation using MVVM and data-binding. The idea here wasn’t to teach form validation, MVVM or data-binding, but rather to give a comprehensive example of how MVVM with data-binding can be used for complex requirements. I got a…

There is a lot of information on the internet on how to do validations and form in Android using MVVM. I’ve however found a lot of these example don’t quite cover the feature set I would like, so I decided to create the example(s) I was seeking. TL;DR The issue with…

As a developer, one of the first obstacles to overcome when starting a new platform is to understand the framework and how your projects are structured. This is followed by understanding how to deploy code and secure code in a test or production environment. The goal of this article is…

There are 8 areas in app development that I have found are often ignored by designers and developers. This may be because they would rather go with an implementation of convenience, or because they are “micro-interactions” and just not sexy enough for anyone to waste any brain power on when…

There seems to be a lack of information out there about how to publish an Android library written in Kotlin to jCenter. If you search on how to publish an Android library to jCenter, you may have come across this post that claims to have a solution. While that solution…

When using react.js, do you run webpack-dev-server and find that when you change your files, webpack-dev-server does not automatically rebundle your project? Instead you find yourself having to run webpack -d --watch along with webpack-dev-server in order for changes to your files to be visible? This seems to be a…

It’s hard to believe for those who aren’t well versed in movie making, but movies do have a colour palette — just like apps. When done well, the colour palette is seamless and adds to the story, when done badly, it can look garish, distract the audience. — There are a lot of different styles when it comes to choosing a colour palette for a movie. I’m going to limit our discussion to just a few ways cinematographers and directors use colour palettes and hopefully show how this is analogous to building web or mobile apps.

We’re talking micro-service style API, and browser side scripting in Kotlin (Kotlin2JS) — Since Kotlin is now an officially supported language for Android, it only stands to reason that people will start to adopt Kotlin faster than Angelina Jolie can adopt children from Africa. Most of us are aware of the fact that we can just drop in Kotlin in to any Java/J2EE…

Developers have a hard time wearing a users hat. We know how much work animations and transitions are, and as such, we are often doing a cost versus benefit analysis in our head when it comes to animations and transitions. We can be forgiven for concluding that transitions don’t add…