Do you find yourself chasing for “clean code, clean architecture, clean design, clean state management” yet still feel bogged down in a sea of boilerplate for even the simplest of tasks — such as showing a simple list fetched with a coroutine? Surely this could be done in a single…

Have you ever wanted to navigate between two Composables? Do you wish it were as easy as backstack.goTo(SomeScreen(arg1, arg2)) and you would go there? Good news, because now that seems to be possible with Simple-Stack’s Compose integration — which I consider BETA for now, but nonetheless, it’s possible. What it looks like Initial setup and dependencies: First, you…

It’s been a recurring question, regardless of navigation framework of choice: how is it possible to create a screen with a bottom navigation view, that would host a navigation history stack per each tab? Each framework has its own unique ways. For example, with Jetpack Navigation you might use the…

I’ve been meaning to write this article in a while. Hopefully, the following tips and style recommendations (in no particular order) will help you write better Kotlin! Let’s get on with it, shall we? For 2 or more constructor arguments, prefer not to keep the properties on the same line as the class name in the constructor definition class MyClass( val a: A, val b: B, ): MyParentClass(a, b), MyInterface { // ... }

Something people could ask me as they’re reading this title: “Hold on a second, isn’t Dagger-Android no longer in active development? Isn’t it made obsolete with the introduction of Hilt?” Technically, yes. Dagger-Android is superseded by Hilt. So there is a good chance that if you are already using Hilt…

It’s been a recurring question, regardless of navigation framework of choice: how is it possible to create a screen with a bottom navigation view, that would host a navigation history stack per each tab? Each framework has its own unique ways. For example, Jetpack Navigation provides NavigationExtensions as a sample…

Jetpack Lifecycle is quite powerful. We can extract logic, and make it lifecycle-aware. In fact, this allowed us in a previous article to simplify viewbinding and make it a single line. However, I need to provide a quick heads-up: all is not as it seems. The provided gists and code…

Merry Christmas to all! The subject of this article is one that has been on my mind for a very long time. After all, “Clean Architecture” is often seen as the end goal, the hallmark of the finest of Android application code structure — it is the best of the…

You can also follow the related discussion thread on /r/android_devs. LiveData is a misunderstood beast. Every so often, you see comments like “LiveData does not belong in Repositories”, or that with the existence of RxJava, Coroutine Channels, or Coroutine Flows — there’s “no reason to use LiveData at all”. While…