This is really a story about pattern recognition, and discovery. The best part about discovery is that for you it’s as though you were the first to see it! Back in high school history class, my mind wandering, I took out a piece of paper and wrote down the squares…

The code below gives you a complete Android MVVM + LiveData + Repository + DI implementation. I assume that you know about all of these. You just want to know how to fit the pieces together really easily. The code below flows as follows. I think going from simple concepts…

I wrote an article recently that had Kotlin code and used synchronized(). Since this is deprecated in Kotlin I decided to rewrite the code to use ReentrantLock and found that changing the code blocks was so non-invasive and so easy that I’ll show you how to do it. The original…

Here is a story about creating an app. One that integrates Google Maps API (GMA), TensorFlow Lite (TFL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) all into a single, meaningful app. Meaningful because the app records curb cuts for the disabled, or for anyone that relies on curb cuts, such as the…

I wanted to get my Spotify playlists and decided to use the Spotify APIs in an Android app to do just that. Fortunately, I didn’t need to do anything from scratch. There are three parts to getting everything to work. Create and Android app. Create app companion data on the…

With the Model–View–ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern being implemented in many apps today, I decided to convert one using the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) to one using MVVM. …