OkHttp is quietly retrying requests. Is your API ready?

Adventures with FragmentStatePagerAdapter

A lot of Android developers are confused or don’t even know about the difference…

UIStackView: Lessons learned

UIStackView is very powerful layout component but it can cause a lot of issues. In this article I will run…

Android process death — and the (big) implications for your app

Demystifying Android’s commitAllowingStateLoss()

Using Android Fragments in 2018

No, I’m not crazy. And yes — I know there are dozens of frameworks and approaches that are trying…

Cleaner Architecture on iOS

Today, I’m not going to teach you anything new or groundbreaking. Rather, I’m just going to remind you about…

Transactions and threads in SQLite on Android

Transaction Isolation in SQLite

So you have a long running service (a separate thread) that is synchronising your database with a server or doing some periodic work on it. This task can potentially take a…

TDD using Quick & Nimble

This post demonstrates some example usage of Quick & Nimble within TDD process. This post is aimed at anyone who would like to use the TDD process, but does not have a clue how to kickoff. I will start with a brief overview of the TDD using Quick & Nimble. If you are already familiar…

It’s time to ditch Loaders in Android

The idea of Loaders never really caught on. They were introduced with Honeycomb around 2011…