Published in ProAndroidDev·Apr 25, 2019Detect memory leaks in your instrumentation tests using LeakCanaryI’ve had this article on my backlog for a long time since I started playing with performance tests back in August 2018 but I never got to finish it off. It seems a good time now since Py ⚔ released at AndroidMakers a new major version (2.0-alpha-1) …Android5 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Apr 12, 2019Deep Dive into writing Performance Tests with @JankTestI’ve always been interested in performance testing, back in February I gave a talk about how to write and automate performance tests at MobOS. …Android8 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Feb 22, 2019How Kotlin helps you avoid memory leaksLast week I gave a talk at MobOS about writing and automating performance tests in Android. As part of the talk I wanted to demonstrate how you could detect memory leaks during your integration tests. To prove that, I created an Activity using Kotlin that was supposed to leak memory…Android6 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Feb 12, 2019Write an Android Studio Plugin Part 5: Localization and NotificationsIn the fourth part of this series we learnt how to integrate a third party API like Jira Cloud Platform in our plugin and to use patterns like MVP or MVC to do so. …Android6 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Jan 25, 2019A guide to recyclerview-selectionA few days ago I started building a simple app to explore clean architecture a little bit. One of the features was for the user to be able to select two items and then take her/him to another screen. I didn’t want to spend time on implementing the multi-selection part…Android9 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Jan 2, 2019Write an Android Studio Plugin Part 4: Jira IntegrationIn the third part of this series we learnt how to create a new Settings screen using components to persist its data. In today’s article we are going to use that data to quickly integrate Jira with our plugin. Remember that you can find all the code for this series…Android App Development12 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Dec 21, 2018Using Dagger-Android in a multi-module projectIn my last article I talked about how to use Dagger in a multi-module project, if you haven’t read it yet, I would recommend you do it so before continuing since we will be reusing the same project. After I published the article I got a lot of questions about…Android App Development11 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Dec 15, 2018Using Dagger in a multi-module projectA bit more than a year ago I started to modularize our codebase. Back then, there was a lot of talking around the subject but no one really focused on how you could use Dagger in a multi-module environment which was one of the main problems I had. …Android8 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Dec 7, 2018Write an Android Studio Plugin Part 3: SettingsIn the second part of this series we learnt how to persist data using components and also how to use that data to trigger a notification when users updated our plugin to show them what’s new. …Android7 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Nov 30, 2018Deep Dive into Dagger LazyA week ago we had a conversation about Dagger Lazy during our weekly dev meeting. I knew it existed but I never felt the need of using it so I thought I could deep dive into Dagger Lazy to better understand it. Why Dagger Lazy? When Dagger Lazy was brought up during our…Android App Development6 min read
