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Swap ViewModel during testing in Android via Hilt

I have seen a lot of Hilt examples where we hard code the actual implementation of ViewModel in the Activity or Fragment. May be, this is what you need, and you want to test your Fragments or Activities with the actual ViewModel. But if you are…

Generics in Kotlin

What is it?

These are generics: List<String>, List<Any>, Map<Int, String>, Jungle<T>, etc…

What is T in Jungle<T>?

T is any Type. Think of it as a placeholder while defining the Jungle<T> like:

Publishing Android library to maven central

All my libraries has a script to publish the artifact to bintray and from there auto release to mavenCentral. But recently, Bintray was shutdown and hence I…

Google Apps Script for Android Translation

23 Aug 2021

JaCoCo single coverage report for Multi Module projects

16 Aug 2021

I am working on an android project with multiple modules. I use JaCoCo for code coverage, and it is setup in a way that a coverage report is generated for each module. Recently, I was in a…

IntelliJ Plugin — Adding Renaming support and Element Manipulators

04 Oct 2018

I really don’t have to add renaming support for my plugin, but I have come so far and it seems so natural that I have to support for renaming. Especially, this whole…

IntelliJ Plugin — Adding References to existing language

02 Oct 2018

I am not writing a custom language plugin, but trying to add references to a string literal, so this is kind of an add-on to the kotlin language. I tried using PsiReferenceContributor and…

IntelliJ Plugin — PSI Parsing of Kotlin Files

30 Sep 2018

I have written a couple of intellJ plugins that involves parsing PSI, but that’s for Java. Recently, I was writing a plugin to help me in my office work. This time it involved PSI parsing of Kotlin files…