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Fun with Flags Redux

Way 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 15

Fun with Flags Redux

May 15

Barry Irvine
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Go City Engineering

Loco for Loco

Every 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, 2023

Loco for Loco

Mar 8, 2023

Barry Irvine
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Go City Engineering

Pact Contract Testing in Android

Here 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, 2023

Pact Contract Testing in Android

Feb 6, 2023

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Go City Engineering

Let 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, 2022

Light bulb

May 3, 2022

Barry Irvine

Observing your network connection with Flow

One of the biggest challenges of the modern Android development is migrating all the Context-based callbacks that used to live in an…

Feb 3, 2022

Feb 3, 2022

Barry Irvine

JSON Web Tokens demystified

So 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, 2021

JSON Web Tokens demystified

Aug 13, 2021

Barry Irvine

Back-off my Flowables

Recently 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, 2018

Sep 14, 2018

Barry Irvine

Kotlin by Stealth

Google 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, 2017

Kotlin by Stealth

Oct 31, 2017

Barry Irvine

Fun with Flags

The Emoji Experiment

Jan 17, 2017

Fun with Flags

Jan 17, 2017

Barry Irvine

Fun With Flags

Creating a country picker dialog with vector drawables

Nov 28, 2016

Fun With Flags

Nov 28, 2016

Barry Irvine

Barry Irvine

Writing elegant Android code is my passion — but with 20+ years experience in roles from programme delivery to working at the coal face, I’ve seen it all.

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