Every coachmark library I tried felt incomplete—not customizable enough for what I needed. Screenshot-based overlays that feel disconnected. Solid scrims that hide the actual UI. Z-index battles that never end. I saw the gap. So I built Lumen. Notice how the FAB remains tappable through the overlay: Lumen renders
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 spinners. I've seen these bugs ship to production—in my own apps and in code
Your logging interceptor is lying. Here is what actually happens inside OkHttp - and how to finally see it.
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
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
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
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
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
In this post , we take a look at some of the use cases of DSLs in Android.
Dsl
Part 2 of series on how to work with Kotlin DSLs
Dsl
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
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