Introduction As mobile developers, our primary goal is to create efficient, maintainable, and user-friendly apps. One effective approach to achieving these goals is through the use of clean architecture, a software design pattern that has gained popularity in recent years. …

Discover how story points can revolutionize your software development process Introduction Story points are an invaluable tool in the world of Agile software development, particularly within the Scrum framework. They offer a way to estimate the effort needed to complete tasks during the execution phase of a project, accounting for varying developer velocities, promoting comparison-based estimations, and capturing uncertainty through the…

Sometime you just want a quick and dirty way of doing some network calls. For this reason I created a tiny network library under the Apache 2 licence. It can be found at github. Tiny A tiny network lib build on top of OkHttp. This is mostly for my own use…

The Right Way and The Not so Right Way — What is a splash screen? “A splash screen is a graphical control element consisting of a window containing an image, a logo and the current version of the software. A splash screen usually appears while a game or program is launching.” — Wikipedia ….. What is the purpose of a splash screen? “Splash screens are typically used by particularly large applications to notify…

I am going to try to make this tutorial as simple as possible and please leave comments if something if not clear enough so I can adjust it. Data Object I will create an app with a list showing countries and their country code. First step is to create the data object…

I have gotten some questions about Lambda expressions and RxJava. These questions are mostly about not fully understanding Lambda expressions or RxJava. In this blog I will try to explain lambdas expressions as easy as I can. I will take the RxJava part in a separate blog. Lambda expressions & RxJava What is lambdas…

I have done a lot of copy and paste of my code lately so I decided to start to create some small libraries. Mostly for my own personal re-use, to learn more about releasing open source libs and of course getting rid of the copy and paste. The first lib…

The repository pattern is one of the more popular patterns at the moment. I for one like it, it follows the solid principles and done right it is clean and easy to use. As I see it the repository pattern have two purposes; first it is an abstraction of the…

I have been jumping back and forth regarding the best architecture for android apps for some time now, and have talked to friends, listen to lectures, reading articles and tested a lot of different approaches. This is my attempt to explain why I have chosen the one I am currently…