LewisRhine

Thinking Functionally

One of the great things happening right now in software development is the blending of functional and Object Ordained ideas. While things like Scala have been doing this for a while now, the explosion of popularity of things like Kotlin, Swift, and Rx are giving developers the best of both…

Data Binding in Anko

Ever since Google announced their data binding library there has been a debate in the community whether it is “the best thing since fragments” or “the worst thing since fragments”. (I knew you would see that coming, but I did it anyways)

Anko SQLite Wrapper

Dealing with the on-device database is still very much a headache for Android developers. Writing straight SQLite code is a…

Flux Android Architecture Components using Kotlin

App State as a tree

We tend to think of app state as just the current values at a given time. But what if we thought about state at a higher level? Wouldn’t it be useful to have more information, not just of the values of our properties, but the state of an application as a whole.