A very late post about modularization indeed, and hopefully it will help someone on their way on modularization of monoliths and help them reduce their build times.

The context

2 years back, We started unifying our multiple partner apps into one single app using the best available software engineering principles we had…

TLDR; We created an easy to use wrapper on top of exoplayer api and made it lifecycle aware. Find the source code here

For a recent feature, we needed to add audio streaming support to our application.

Media playback isn’t the most complex topic out there and one can easily…

In the first part of the series, we talked about the dagger annotations and how they are useful in our projects.

In the second part we will look at how we can use Dagger 2 to provide dependencies in our mobile apps.

Add following lines to app build.gradle file

1. …

• Architecture
  [ ] Object oriented Programming
  [ ] SOLID Principles
  [ ] Common Design Patterns
  [ ] Functional programming
  [ ] Working with pure functions and immutable data
  [ ] Dependency Injection, and Inversion of control
  [ ] Architectural components
  [ ] Common architectures as MVP, MVVM
  [ ] Reactive…

Dependency injection means giving an object its instance variables — James Shore

To sum up what it is

• Providing dependencies to classes instead of class itself creating dependencies
• A central/structured way of providing dependent objects/services.
• Helps in Unit testing
• Helps in writing reusable-modular-interchangeable code.

If you want to read more…

So if your vector drawable has a lot of decimal point instructions without the leading 0. You will get a lint error as

This check ensures that vector paths are valid. For example, it makes sure that the numbers are not using scientific notation (such as 1.0e3) which can lead to runtime crashes on older devices.

I wrote a small python script to fix this in our project

Also checkout

Some of the IntelliJ shortcuts I use actively

cmd + ctrl + a — Open command panel

cmd + [ — Move back

cmd + ] — Move forward

cmd + shift + e — Show recently edit files

cmd + ctrl + g — Select all occurrences

cmd +…

After Kotlin was made official by Google in the IO, we went ahead and gave it a shot for our Android app.

Pre: Our app is written in Java and uses Multidex.

So we decided to migrate one of our modules to Kotlin. …