Android: Room many to many
25th April 2023
Copy and paste how to make a many to many relationship.
Jetpack Compose: Making a Tweet
30th October 2022
The anatomy of a tweet.
Jetpack Compose: Multi-Button Fab
2nd September 2022
Have your fab show multiple buttons.
Jetpack Compose: Focus manager
9th June 2022
"Focus!"
Jetpack Compose: Login Screen
3rd June 2022
Basic login screen with credentials check.
Design patterns: Memento
24th May 2022
A keepsake, a precious memory of state.
Jetpack Compose: Lists as state
17th May 2022
Some dos and donts of using lists as state
Jetpack Compose: Surface
20th April 2022
Surfaces represent a fundamental unit in the material design language
Jetpack Compose: Rows
10th April 2022
Row row row your layout
Jetpack Compose: Columns
3rd April 2022
A building block of compose
Kotlin: associate helpers
21st February 2022
Keep your associates close
Project review: Habits 1
02nd February 2022
A quick look back on what I've done and what I need to do
Android: Room one to many objects
13th January 2022
More information in less queries
Design Patterns: Decorator
2nd January 2022
"Wouldn't this object look lovely with this one on it ?"
Kotlin: Coroutines Coroutines - builders
30th December 2021
Build your concurrency
Kotlin: Extension functions
17th December 2021
Extend the functionality of a class without inheriting or decorating it.
Kotlin: Scope functions
8th December 2021
The kind of functions that make it hard to go back to anything else
Java: Defensive copies
12th November 2021
Don't be silly, protect your fields
JUnit: Parameterized tests
15th September 2021
The neater way to run the same test over and over again
Kotlin: Lazy init
25th August 2021
Sometimes it's good to be lazy.
Just build it: Javascript clocks
4th August 2021
Reading code is just as important for your development as writing it. Oh here are some clocks in javascript.
Kotlin: Class delegation using "by"
12th July 2021
Delegation without all the boilerplate
Android: State changing buttons
30th May 2021
The perfect follow up to the last post.
Android: Rounded buttons
24th May 2021
Hint: No, you can't just use a border-radius.
Java: Using static constructors over constructors
17th May 2021
Static factory methods let you give names to your constructors
Java: Composition > Inheritance (HashSet example)
12th May 2021
Be very careful what you inherit, and from whom.
Android: Viewmodels
06th May 2021
Change orientation as much as you want!
Enums
28th April 2021
Stop using ints for constants for f**k sake.
Filtering arrays / lists
24th April 2021
Take what you want and leave out the rest.
Just build it: JS Bill & Tip splitter
15th April 2021
Never again fret over how to split your bill.
Javascript: Arrays
7th April 2021
Another example of a common data structure Javascript tried to make its own
Java Vs Kotlin: "if" statements
30th March 2021
How the "if" statement differs between Java and Kotlin and where's my ternary ?
Kotlin: Data classes
28th March 2021
Your new best friend for storing data