Integrate a private GitLab repository with Deploy Tokens in your pubspec.yaml — Imagine you created your own package and want to reference it in another project. It’s easy to do so if you reference the package by path. Then your pubspec.yaml would look like this: As soon as you get a bit more professional you probably want to…

My name is Marty McFly, I’m a Dart developer and I just recently had a revelation moment. It all started with me and my laptop being set back in time into the dark ages of callbacks. It was not by chance but on purpose that I had to go there…

Lessons learned by attending a virtual conference and creating a virtual event As a organizer of local meetups since 3.5 years I’ve gained a lot experience in hosting local events. Together with co-organizer Marco Fuhrich the GDG Nuremberg, Germany has hosted more than 40 events until now. But since meeting…

A simple paging solution. — Prolog A long time ago, in ancient Egypt, people started writing words onto papyrus. Text was written on large papyrus rolls, also referred to as scroll. Papyrus was “joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book” (Wikipedia, Papyrus) A scroll “is usually…

Call Kotlin Code from Java — This blog post is all about calling Kotlin — from Java code. Java, even for Kotlin enthusiasts, will live longer than expected in a dark place somewhere deep in our source control. We will have to deal with it and probably continue working with a legacy Java codebase. The good…

DEPRECATION WARNING: I wouldn’t recommend this approach fully any more today. This article stays here for documenting purposes. For a modularized architecture approach I recommend the series on that by Jeroen Mols. Android architecture evolves as all of our technical skills do. After a couple of years as Android Developer…