It’s quarantine days and everybody is doing something useful. I’m no different than the super cool people out there: I made the best tutorial for learning python on the Internet(s). The best part? It takes you 90 seconds to complete and after it you’ll be fluent in python!

Intrigued? Let’s go then: pythonin90sec.com

Yes, it’s a joke. Till next time.

This is going to be a long one. Also it can be found here.

This blog post (originally titled “Late for the Kotlin party”) has been in the file cabinet since spring and the “see the light of the optical cable” moment was postponed, because of, reasons. …

And (why) I didn’t publish it.

It all started with the question — how do meaningless, basic, and some — just plain stupid apps become viral on App Store/Google Play? At least one of these downloads is yours — Crack your screen (10,000,000+), Windows XP error (1,000,000+), Yo (1,000,000+), Paper Racing (5,000,000+), right? Is there a…

And what to do about it.

Have you ever tried to loop sounds in Android? And how did it go?

Easy, right? Just call setLooping(true) on your instance of MediaPlayer and it’s done. There’s one small detail, though. When you set the .setLooping value to true and hear the result, if you don’t mind the silence…

Writing automated tests before releasing an app should be part of the development process of reliable mobile application (and any other kind of piece of software for that matter). When it comes down to UI test and Android - Espresso seems to be the way to go. …

Log.d(“HW”, “Hello World”);