This year has been one of most challenging year for me. I have faced more failures this year. It has been a year of realisation for me. …

I have seen lots of people converting their tests to Kotlin and then converting other module, But there is no such rule, pick any random file and convert it, check if everything is working as before. Steps to Convert Once you know basics of Kotlin Convert files, one by one, via “⌥⇧⌘K”, make…

Today we are introducing AndroidStarters, boilerplate for your next Android project, made simple. Handcrafted starter projects from the community, optimised for simplicity and ease of use. Why was this developed? I used to be a freelance Android Developer where I worked on new projects every two months. I followed the same architecture for all…

Overarching Principles Care about quality. Care about code quality, design quality, and user experience. Strive for excellence. Lets build something that we can be truly proud of. A product that gives us a great reputation. Readability and maintainability are of primary importance. Don’t be clever, instead be clear. Don’t be sloppy. Use…

Android has a very odd lifecycle for apps, activities, and fragments. Its well defined, but odd. First Thing to Understand When an activity is stopped it also stops its fragments. Activities that are NOT on the top of the back-stack (invisible to the user), can be destroyed at any time. …

There is an ongoing debate about how best to design software and how to communicate it to others. Through my career I’ve taken different approaches. Trying to make the best of things when the rest of the team wasn’t interested in doing good design and instead, just hack code together. …