PinnedMastering Android App Performance: Analyzing Bottlenecks with Perfetto 🚦This blog is originally published on blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hello Android-ers 🫡, after developing an application, we are mostly invested in improving the performance of the application and finding out the issues in the existing application that might be causing performance issues in the application. But finding out the exact root cause…Android7 min readAndroid7 min read
Jan 31Leveraging the Snapshot Mutation Policies of Jetpack ComposeThis blog is originally published on blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hey Composers 👋🏻, The heart💚 of Jetpack Compose is a State that tells compose when to recompose UI. In the state management with compose, we can specify policies by which we can tell compose when exactly to recompose and it’s a Snapshot Mutation…Android4 min readAndroid4 min read
Dec 21, 2022ViewModel: for UI business, not UI operations 😮This blog is originally published on blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hey tech Android🙋🏻♂️, this is an opinionated post about what ViewModels should do and what should not. It’s based on recent experiences and seeing common mistakes or anti-patterns developers follow while developing Android applications with MVVM/MVI architecture. Let’s see. What is ViewModel? Before jumping into the…Android5 min readAndroid5 min read
Oct 2, 2022Exploring “select” expression of Kotlin coroutinesThis blog is originally published on blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hey Kotliners 😁, Kotlin Coroutines is a very powerful library that comes along with a lot of APIs which provide out-of-box functionalities. In this article, we will look at one of the APIs i.e. select expression. What is a select expression? 🤨 While application development, you may have several…Kotlin3 min readKotlin3 min read
Jun 24, 2022Combining StateFlows and transforming it into a StateFlowThis blog is published originally on blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hey Kotliners👋, In this blog, we are gonna do the experiment with the very 🔥hot StateFlow as the title of this blog suggests, we have to build a utility which can help us combining multiple StateFlows into another transformed StateFlow. …Android4 min readAndroid4 min read
Apr 2, 2022Leveraging the Semaphore concept in Coroutines to limit the parallelism 🔀This blog is originally published at blog.shreyaspatil.dev Hey Kotliners👋, in this blog, we’ll learn to use the concept of Semaphore with Kotlin coroutines to limit parallelism. You might have learned about the semaphores let’s understand it one more time. What is Semaphore? 🤷 Semaphore is a technique by which concurrent processes or operations are…Kotlin6 min readKotlin6 min read
Mar 11, 2022Promise compose compiler and imply when you’ll change 🤞Let’s improve the performance of your Jetpack Compose application — Hey Droid-folks and Composers 👋, this is a mini-blog where we’ll discuss improving the performance of Composables by taking care and promising some things to the Compose Compiler. Let’s say you’re composing your UI and the composable function looks like this 👇 @Composable fun PersonInfo(person: Person) { ... } In…Android4 min readAndroid4 min read
Jan 21, 2022Automate library publishing to Maven Central with GitHub Actions Workflow Dispatch 🤖Let GitHub Actions work for you with just a click and you just chill 😎 — Hey developers👋, after the sunset of Bintray almost many developers migrated their JVM library publishing workflow and moved to maven central. I personally moved my open-source JVM libraries to maven central. It’s really different and complex thing for a developer initially who is using the Sonatype, Nexus repository manager after…Android7 min readAndroid7 min read
Dec 20, 2021Filtering and modifying text input in Jetpack Compose wayHey Composers 👋, Jetpack compose is getting good attention and many developers and organizations giving it a try for using in actual apps. Migrating from the existing view system to Jetpack compose is not that much hard (in my personal opinion). But there’s still like a puzzle sometimes in some…Android4 min readAndroid4 min read
Oct 26, 2021Navigating Screens in Jetpack Compose (DevFest India 2021 — Mobile Track)Hey Android developers 👋, Now everyone is aware that Jetpack Compose is the future of Android UI development. DevFest India 2021 just happened this month (October 2021) and it’s a treasure of learning for everyone. I was also one of the speakers for the mobile track where I spoke about…Android2 min readAndroid2 min read
