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Published in Android Developers

·Jul 22

Jetpack Compose Interop: Using Compose in a RecyclerView

TL;DR RecyclerView 1.3.0-alpha02 and Compose UI 1.2.0-beta02 bring out-of-the-box performant usage of composables from RecyclerView — no extra code required! If you had previously implemented our guidance for Compose in RecyclerView, you should now remove this code. Introducing Compose incrementally in your codebase means that you can end up in…

Jetpack Compose Migration

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Jetpack Compose Interop: Using Compose in a RecyclerView

Published in Android Developers

·Jun 3

Diving Into Compose — Lessons Learned While Building Maps Compose

Interoperability and Compose API lessons learned while building Maps Compose — This year we released the Maps Compose library, a Jetpack Compose library for adding Google Maps to your app. At its core, Maps Compose is an interop library for the Maps SDK for Android that exposes Compose friendly APIs. …

Featured

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Diving Into Compose — Lessons Learned While Building Maps Compose

Feb 2, 2021

Pass Secrets Securely on Android

I recently open-sourced a tool called secrets-gradle-plugin — a Gradle plugin that allows you to pass secrets, such as API keys, securely into an Android app. While the plugin was originally developed for apps that use Google Maps Platform Android SDKs, the problem it solves is generic enough and can…

Gradle Plugin

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Published in AndroidPub

·Jul 10, 2017

Using Observables to Render Responsive Lists: An RxJava Case Study — Part 1 of 3

This is the 1st part of a 3 part series about how RxJava is used in Pre, a location-based app for checking in and chatting with your best friends. In this first post, I will go over how we used Observables to compose a complex view that displays a list…

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Using Observables to Render Responsive Lists: An RxJava Case Study — Part 1 of 3

Published in joinpre

·Jul 6, 2017

Using Observables to Render Responsive Lists: An RxJava Case Study — Part 1 of 3

This is the 1st part of a 3 part series about how RxJava is used in Pre, a location-based app for checking in and chatting with your best friends. …

Android

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Published in AndroidPub

·Jun 12, 2017

Announcing New Book: Reactive Programming on Android with RxJava

I’m very pleased to announce that a book that Angus Huang and I started writing a few months back, “Reactive Programming on Android with RxJava”, is now published and available on LeanPub! 🎉 What is RxJava? RxJava — the Java implementation of ReactiveX — was open sourced and introduced to the developer community…

Android

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Published in AndroidPub

·Mar 6, 2017

Reactive Modelling on Android

This post was originally published on my Toptal account. Concurrency and asynchronicity are inherent to mobile programming. Dealing with concurrency through imperative-style programming, which is what programming on Android generally involves, can be the cause of many problems. …

Rxjava

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Published in AndroidPub

·Sep 4, 2016

Introduction to RxJava for Android

This post was originally published on Toptal under my Toptal account. If you’re an Android developer, chances are you’ve heard of RxJava. It’s one of the most discussed libraries for enabling Reactive Programming in Android development. It’s touted as the go-to framework for simplifying concurrency/asynchronous tasks inherent in mobile programming. …

Android

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Dec 30, 2015

Getting Attached to Your State

Configuration changes occur in runtime and are caused by various events such as: when keyboard visibility changes, when language changes, or when orientation changes. This in turn causes any visible Activity to be reconstructed once the change finishes. …

Android

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