A while ago I saw this animation on /r/internetisbeautiful. I highly recommend you go check it out for yourself on your browser. It sure looks better in 60 fps and also way smoother in 120+ fps. Although there is nothing fancy going on, small details in the animation makes it…

Lifecycle Coroutine Extensions were introduced some time ago to ease the usage of coroutines in Android world. You can learn more about them here. In this post, I’m going to assume the reader already has experimented with lifecycleCoroutineScope in either at least one activity or fragment. Although the documentation gives…

Disclaimer: This article is written by a developer who have not yet migrated their fragments to Jetpack Navigation Component, therefore lack crucial experience in it. …

It is not uncommon that once you run into an issue with Intrumentation Testing in Android, you’d feel like the loneliest person in the world. This might be an unforeseen effect of abundance of Android knowledge that exists on the Internet. Whatever you search for, there is always a StackOverflow…

Part 1 ; Part 2 So far in this series we’ve achieved to play a video in a Composable. Through component dependencies, the video player also supported changing the source. Finally, the video player also returned media controls interface which allowed us to implement our own control buttons outside the…

This post has been edited after Beta release of Jetpack Compose. Deciding on a Player Before we start with how to play a video in a composable view, we need to decide on a player class. It would be rather a huge undertaking to develop a player from scratch. In this project, we are…

This write-up is divided into 5 cohesive parts for better delivery. This post is about getting into Jetpack Compose for the first time and figuring out little details before moving onto more concrete implementations with clear goals. The link for next posts can be found at the bottom. What is Jetpack Compose? Jetpack Compose…

Incidents are the times where fast and reliable communication becomes the highest priority in a team. When not just minutes but seconds matter, an easy way to reach to responders may resolve an incident in a shorter time which potentially saves a company millions of dollars. That’s why Opsgenie had…

DataBinding — Less Boilerplate We probably all remember the old(like 4 years ago?) days of Android development when the presentation layer was merged into Activity code. We had to include code snippets like below everytime a view manipulation was needed. TextView mNameTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.name_textview) These type of lines that are enforced by the…