Neal Sanche - The Rambling Android

Kotlin ViewState Pattern

Often in an Android project, you want to load something from the network, display wait indicators, display errors, or display the resulting loaded data to the user on a screen or multiple screens. There have been many frameworks that provide ways of doing this, one that comes to mind is

Flutter

Almost Another Year

This last year went by in a blur. I was mostly writing Android, Jetpack Compose. But a good part of it was Kotlin Spring Boot, GraphQL, and Kubernetes deployed using Terraform. But that job has now ended. I really need to unpack the major things that I learned in the

History

Recent History

I haven't blogged here in over a year. I probably don't have to explain this, everyone has been going through the same thing, so I'll skip those details. Since this is my development blog, I'll spend a little time putting in details of the things I've been up to in

kotlin

Kotlin Multiplatform

I've started to explore Kotlin Multiplatform. I'll be linking interesting things to this post, and hopefully I'll have enough to make my own post on the subject at some point. Why have I been looking at this? I really want to make Apple Watch apps that link my Apple Watch

Google

Google I/O 2019

I attended my first I/O this year and enjoyed everything except the food.

Android

Bridging the VM and View

Since the Android Architecture components LiveData classes were released, I've been trying to integrate it into an MVVM architecture where the final hop between the ViewModel and View use LiveData for this communication. Why LiveData and not RxJava? The main reason is LiveData was architected specifically with the lifecycle of

News

Phoenix from the ashes

Starting over again.

Wear OS

An Android Wear Talk

Earlier this year, I volunteered to talk about Android Wear at the DroidCon Montreal conference and was accepted.

Android

Using Git to Version your APK

Use git to version your APK

Android

Adding a Library Project to your app

The Gradle build system for Android can definitely take some getting used to. I suspect as time goes on, more of this will become automated. For now, though, you may wonder how to add an android library project, perhaps from some Git repository in the world, to your project. If

Android

Including native libraries in your APK

Include native libraries in Android Gradle.