In 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 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…
Testing 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. …
Generally 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…
When 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. …
DevOps 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…
In 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…
In 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…
I’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.
