Our journey from standard Activities and AsyncTasks to a modern MVP-based architecture powered by RxJava. — The Android dev ecosystem moves very quickly. Every week new tools are created, libraries are updated, blog posts are written and talks are given. If you go on holiday for a month, by the time you come back there will be a new version of the support library and/or Play…

Are you trying the new Android data binding library, and you don’t know how to load images into ImageViews? Here are two examples of how to get those images showing! — Recently I’ve built a MVVM app as part of Archi, a repository that showcases different architectural patterns on Android. This app had to download profile pictures from the GitHub API and display them on an ImageView via data binding. …

RxJava is a great library, but it’s not easy to get started. Here we outline different approaches to unit test Observables. — Pipe Dream Sculpture, image by Paul K At ribot, we started using RxJava a few months ago and now it’s become a core element in the architecture of the Android apps we create. …