Barry IrvineinGo City EngineeringFun with Flags ReduxWay back in the murky mists of time (around the time of Trump’s first(!) presidential win) I wrote two articles about creating a country…May 15May 15
Barry IrvineinGo City EngineeringLoco for LocoEvery so often you come across a piece of software or tool that genuinely makes building an Android app easier. For me, Loco sits squarely…Mar 8, 2023Mar 8, 2023
Barry IrvineinGo City EngineeringPact Contract Testing in AndroidHere at Go City, we’re big fans of consumer driven contract testing (to wit: ensuring that the response of a service [in my case an API]…Feb 6, 20232Feb 6, 20232
Barry IrvineinGo City EngineeringLet There Be Bright (Screens)!A common feature of apps that show QR codes is to increase the brightness to full whenever you open the ticket page. This makes it easier…May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
Barry IrvineObserving your network connection with FlowOne of the biggest challenges of the modern Android development is migrating all the Context-based callbacks that used to live in an…Feb 3, 20221Feb 3, 20221
Barry IrvineJSON Web Tokens demystifiedSo the idea was that customers would receive an email confirming their order with a link containing a JSON Web Token. Clicking the link…Aug 13, 2021Aug 13, 2021
Barry IrvineBack-off my FlowablesRecently I needed to add a network backoff to an RxJava2 Flowable in our Android project and really struggled to find any good examples on…Sep 14, 2018Sep 14, 2018
Barry IrvineKotlin by StealthGoogle IO marked an exciting time in the world of Android development. For the first time ever Google announced official support for a new…Oct 31, 20171Oct 31, 20171
Barry IrvineFun With FlagsCreating a country picker dialog with vector drawablesNov 28, 2016Nov 28, 2016