Published in ProAndroidDev·Aug 20, 2020Gradle Kotlin DSL— Dynamically discover project modulesA lot of modern Gradle projects are starting as a monolith during the prototyping phase, but soon enough when the project has matured you start realising that a modularized project has a lot of advantages. Caching Cleaner architecture (in terms of separation of concerns) Re-usability of same module, in other…Gradle2 min read
Published in Google Developers Experts·May 2, 2020Android MVI architecture with Jetpack & Coroutines/Flow — Part 3Creating Coroutines/Flow empowered UseCases If you haven’t read the previous articles of these series, you can find them here: Part 1 — RecyclerView adapter with ViewBinding Part 2 — Creating ViewModels in an MVI architecture In this article we will see how to create different types of UseCases that will be used in our…Android3 min read
Published in Google Developers Experts·Apr 11, 2020Android MVI architecture with Jetpack & Coroutines/Flow — Part 2Creating ViewModels in an MVI architecture If you haven’t read the previous article of these series, you can find it here: Part 1 — RecyclerView adapter with ViewBinding Now that we have created a base RecyclerView adapter in order to bootstrap lists, we need to see how we will fetch , transform and present the data…Android4 min read
Published in Google Developers Experts·Mar 29, 2020Android MVI architecture with Jetpack & Coroutines/Flow — Part 1RecyclerView Adapter with ViewBinding I have been developing on Android since late 2011 and always remember that we wanted, since the early days, Google to be opinionated about the suggested architecture on Android :) This indeed happened a few years later, with Jetpack’s Android Architecture Components, which introduced ViewModels. ViewModels is the VM part…Android App Development4 min read
Jul 23, 2019CloudBuild: Open-sourcing CancelotAutomatically cancel running builds on the same branch, when a new commit is pushed CloudBuild is a CI/CD offered by Google. At Workable’s Mobile department we made a proof of concept to check if CloudBuild fits our needs in order to be used for artifact (APK) building. A complex project…Github2 min read
Jul 20, 2019Reducing Android Gradle module configuration boilerplateOur codebase at Workable’s Android app has grown over the years due to the wide variety of features we offer. As most of you already know, a single monolithic Android app is often one factor that contributes to slow build times. One of the proposed ways of reducing build times…Android4 min read
May 25, 2019Effectively disabling Crashlytics buildId re-generation in KotlinDSLAndroid Studio 3.5 has reached beta and it was time to try it out as a daily driver in work. Especially with Project Marble having introduced so many bug fixes and performance improvements, that meant the benefits would have an immediate effect. Android Studio 3.5 also includes a new version…Android4 min read
Feb 27, 2019Migrating to new Places SDK: Rx & Coroutines worldContext Up until January 29, 2019 all Places functionality was part of Play Services. Since that day Google announced new Places SDKs for both Android & iOS platforms. (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/introducing-new-improved-places-sdks). The deadline for the migration to new Places SDK, is July 29, 2019. The new Places SDK brings in new methods replacing…Android4 min read
Aug 29, 2018Building a helpful Android CI with Danger & JenkinsIn our days, almost every project, is backed by a Continuous Integration system (aka CI). Either that is an Open Source project or a private repository in the organization of your company. Why do I need a CI? Well, CI is what will have your back, at any given time…Continuous Integration5 min read
May 19, 2018Restructuring Litho’s CircleCI config for WorkflowsNearly a year and a half ago, Facebook released Litho as an Open Source project. Litho is an Android framework, which lets you define your UI in a declarative way. It immediately got my interest and I started getting my hands dirty with some examples and pet projects. It was…Continuous Integration6 min read
