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Compose Performance Bottlenecks: Anti-Patterns That Ship Bugs

Jetpack Compose is elegant. It's also a landmine. The same reactive model that makes Compose declarative can silently swallow your coroutines, fire effects multiple times, and leave users staring at frozen

The OkHttp API You're Not Using

Your logging interceptor is lying. Here is what actually happens inside OkHttp - and how to finally see it.

Building a Design System with Jetpack Compose - Andromeda

Blog series explaining the thought process of how to build a custom design system and what went into building a new Jetpack compose open-source library called Andromeda.

Testing

Learning from failures at scale

Some fun and interesting bits of how do we manage a super app at @gojek - What goes into making and maintaining large projects. - How does a developer cater to new features. - What are some of the troubles they face. - How do junior developers collaborate with senior

Json

Ad-hoc polymorphism in JSON with Kotlin

This post describes a way of using the GSON and Mosi library with Kotlin data classes with Polymorphic JSON data with null-safety and default values.

Dsl

Kotlin DSL - let's express code in "mini-language" - Part 5 of 5

In this post, we take a look at building our test cases by using a simpler language-like DSL. I wanted a “simple” low overhead way of setting up, expressing and testing many combinations of inputs and outputs.The goal is simple , create DSL for expressing the tests clearly and to

Dsl

Kotlin DSL - let's express code in "mini-language" - Part 4 of 5

In this post, we take a look at building a simpler API to work with Broadcast receiver, which will automatically unregister itself when the Activity pauses, and register again when it resumes. Broadcast Receiver To build this , we first create a class which observes lifecycle events class Broadcas

Dsl

Kotlin DSL - let's express code in "mini-language" - Part 3 of 5

In this post , we take a look at some of the use cases of DSLs in Android.

Dsl

Kotlin DSL - let's express code in "mini-language" - Part 2 of 5

Part 2 of series on how to work with Kotlin DSLs

Dsl

Kotlin DSL - let's express code in "mini-language" - Part 1 of 5

In this series , we will take a look at what DSLs are and how to build our custom Kotlin DSLs and apply them to multiple use cases for Android. What is DSLThe concept of DSL or domain-specific language is pretty simple. A domain specific language is a construct that allows

Android

Kotlin — Quick Shared Element transition trick

Shared Element Transition : Having a view that moves from one activity to another in a smooth motion. Let’s say you have more than one view to do a shared element transition in your app, how do you do it in Kotlin ? We would like to transition multiple views like