A problem like Maria

Bringing more colour to Android Studio

Sometimes coding can be a bit frustrating — why is this build taking so long? Why is it…

Understanding Android Matrix transformations

Many years ago in school I was learning about matrices. I don’t remember much of…

A problem like public speaking

Public speaking is a scary experience. But it’s also a great experience.

With Droidcon UK 2017 I’ve done my second talk and I’d like to talk a bit about the experience and give some tips for public speaking. I’m by means no expert in public speaking…

A problem like… Android UI

People always talk about Fragmentation being a problem on Android. From a UI perspective I don’t think it’s that much of a problem. Of course — it is easier to build an application for two fixed screen sizes like on the iPhone, but if you define your layouts correctly different…

A problem like destructuring declarations

I’m a huge fan of Kotlin — it’s powerful, concise and makes it fun to write code. But…

Handling Orientation Changes in Android

Orientation changes are something I wouldn’t consider as being handled very well on Android. The standard behavior is: you change your orientation — the Activity is being recreated, which means you’ll use your changes that happened while the Activity was…