Published in ProAndroidDev·Aug 3, 2020What’s new in Firebase Machine Learning and MLKitIn recent weeks, there have been some changes to the Firebase machine learning products. Firstly, we had a name change. Firebase MLKit is no longer, it is now known as Firebase Machine Learning. MLKit does still exist, but it is now its own product as is known as MLKit. …Android App Development4 min readAndroid App Development4 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Jun 5, 2020Android Studio: Layout InspectorAndroid Studio 4.0 was recently released to the stable channel and it came with many new features. A feature I’ve been looking forward to has been the Layout Inspector. I’ve been doing mobile development for a while, including iOS development, and when debugging iOS apps, especially when it came to…Android5 min readAndroid5 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·May 3, 2020When to use Internal App Sharing on Google Play or Firebase App DistributionTesting is a critical part of the software development cycle. There are different types of tests, such as unit testing, UI testing and even manual testing. When it comes to making app builds available to QA engineers, we can do this in many ways. …App Development8 min readApp Development8 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Apr 5, 2020Building a DevOps pipeline for your App: Choose a CI/CD serverGenerally when we think of CI/CD, we think of a build server. This could be a machine that we have locally or could be a cloud provider that lets us build our apps on some virtual machine somewhere in the world. In the last year, i’ve been trying to find…Android9 min readAndroid9 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Aug 16, 2019Building a DevOps pipeline for your App: Git StrategyWhen thinking about a DevOps pipeline the first thing most people think about is where am I going to host my build server? This infrastructural discussion is important but thinking about your day to day work and how your app will get released is just as important. …Git5 min readGit5 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Aug 16, 2019Building a DevOps pipeline for your App: IntroductionDevOps and pipelines are words that we hear a lot in our development environments and they are always being done by either people doing infrastructure or a DevOps engineer. But what if you wanted to build a DevOps pipeline for your new app? What would be the building blocks you…DevOps2 min readDevOps2 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Mar 29, 2019Why conferences and meet-ups are important for developersIn 2018, I was fortunate enough to attend and speak at many meet-ups and conferences in South Africa and abroad. As a local meet-up organiser of GDG Johannesburg, I end up being at a meet-up at least once a month, but I do try and go to other local meet-ups…Conference5 min readConference5 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Dec 20, 2018Using AutoML Vision in your Android appMachine Learning is a term we hear a lot these days in the development community and beyond. There are many tools out there that are…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Apr 22, 2018How (and why) to use the Cake Pattern with SwinjectIn my previous article, I showed how we can use the Cake Pattern to do dependency injection without any libraries. I got a lot of awesome feedback from many people suggesting alternative methods, which indicates that there is lots of interest in this topic. One of the questions I got…Swift4 min readSwift4 min read
Published in AndroidPub·Jan 10, 2018Sonarqube code coverage for Kotlin on Android with BitriseI’ve recently been working on an Android app that is 100% Kotlin with a full development CI pipeline. Having a good app means that the code is testable, which lead me to use Sonarqube for static code analysis and code coverage. Since there is no official Kotlin plugin for Sonarqube…Android3 min readAndroid3 min read
