DIY – Device lab
What to do during the COVID-19 pandemic… well I cleaned up my house and found some old phones that I wasn’t using anymore. I thought… what a waste! This machine power could be useful in some way. So hereby I introduce to you my device lab. It consists of...
Android Adaptive icons
This video will explain how to recognize and create your own adaptive icons in Android Studio....
How to share Git Hooks
Some time ago I wrote how to create Git Hooks for your project. What I didn’t wrote about is how to share these Git hooks with your team. If you don’t know how to create Git hooks yet, then I recommend reading the blog post below first. Step 1...
Backpressure explained
Backpressure is something every software engineer will have to deal with at some point. You might read it and have no clue what it really means. For those people, continue reading 😉 In software you generally speak of having input and turn it into desired output. Backpressure is when...
How to read Rx marble diagrams
When trying Rx for the first time and you heard it’s a steep learning curve but you went for it anyway and you are searching the internet to get you started and you open up the first result on Google and you see this.. and you be like… But...
Cold vs Hot data source
Maybe you heard of it, maybe you don’t. Hot or cold data sources. Let me explain briefly what it is and how you should use it. The general idea is that hot data sources are active even outside when it is called and cold data sources is not doing...
Sync vs Async
In programming, synchronous operations block instructions until the task is completed, while asynchronous operations can execute without blocking other operations. Examples of asynchronous operations are push notifications, click events, keyboard input or fetching data. Because they happen any particular time outside the main execution of your app. Example of...
Flutter #TIL series
As an experiment for myself to see if I would like to create and montage video’s I started my own YouTube playlist. Coding is my conformed-zone so I decided to pick record random things I learned while developing for Flutter....
ProGuard Tips
When implementing ProGuard for your Android App you might find these little tips helpful during implementation. #1 Debug build It’s common that debug build type doesn’t run ProGuard because it will slow down compilation and therefor development. But in order to fully test and debug any ProGuard problems, it’s...
Coroutines – Dispatcher & Yield
Today another day in quarantine since the COVID-19 outbreak. So I thought let’s really learn how coroutines work instead of just using it and hope for the best. I did the codelab from Google that did a pretty good job for me to understand how it works. I wanted...