Dealing with the on-device database is still very much a headache for Android developers. Writing straight SQLite code is a nightmare of opening, closing, tries, finals, and cursors… Oh good God, no not cursors! This is why many opt for the use of an ORM, even though they are slower…

A few weeks ago I thought I should have a website. Since I am an Android developer, I thought it should be in material design and because I’m a full on fanboy lunatic I thought it should be written on Kotlin. If you didn’t know Kotlin can also compile to…

One of the great things happening right now in software development is the blending of functional and Object Ordained ideas. While things like Scala have been doing this for a while now, the explosion of popularity of things like Kotlin, Swift, and Rx are giving developers the best of both…

Ever since Google announced their data binding library there has been a debate in the community whether it is “the best thing since fragments” or “the worst thing since fragments”. (I knew you would see that coming, but I did it anyways) When I first heard about it I was…

We tend to think of app state as just the current values at a given time. But what if we thought about state at a higher level? …