If one thing’s true in the IT industry, it’s that technology is always moving forwards. This is true for things like devices we use day-to-day. Form factors continue to evolve, and processing power broadly still follows Moores Law. …

Welcome to the fourth instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We’ll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look at why and how they are what they are today in less than five minutes of…

Welcome to the third instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We’ll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look at why and how they are what they are today in less than five minutes of…

Welcome to the second instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We’ll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look at why and how they are what they are today in less than five minutes of…

Earlier this week I mentioned to a colleague that for the longest time enums were discouraged in Android Development. To developers new to Android this fact is apparently pretty mind-boggling — just look at the code we write today with Kotlin! …

View Binding is an upcoming feature in Android, available in Android Studio 3.6 Canary 11+ which allows you to more easily interact with Views. It’s quick and easy to enable, and allows for type-safe view access. We’re likely all going to be using it in Fragments. …

If you work on an application which uses Firebase Remote Config or something similar, you’ve probably wanted to test remote changes and run in to some trouble. Making sure config changes work before shipping them to the public can be painful without complex bespoke solutions. …

In the previous articles we’ve seen what property delegation is, how we can use it to seperate concerns, and implement complex getting and setting functionality. This article takes a different approach, looking at a real world problem and evaluating a bunch of different solutions. …

In the first entry of this series we looked at Kotlin Property Delegation in its most basic form, the ReadOnlyProperty and ReadWriteProperty. These provide a simple way of us extracting getter and setter functions into a separate, portable class. As we saw in the last post, there are some things…