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Android Architecture Components
December 5th, 2017
Learning to use ViewModel and LiveData
Joseph Roskopf
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Real Time Chat Application with Kotlin and Firebase
September 6th, 2017
Real Time Chat Application with Kotlin and Firebase
Joseph Roskopf
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Android O - Autosizing TextViews
July 11th, 2017
Introduction Android O is coming. Right now in June, we’re in Release Preview 3 with an expected final release date of Q3. My guess for the dessert name is Oreo, but I haven’t been right on a single one so far. Android O feels more like a minor…
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Real Time Database Triggers with Firebase Functions
April 20th, 2017
A recent Android application I worked on required storing the latitude and longitude of a user’s location. I was asked to convert that latitude and longitude into a user-readable address. I could have written the code in Java, which would convert…
Joseph Roskopf
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Nested weights are bad for performance
March 31st, 2017
You’ve almost certainly seen the lint error before “Nested weights are bad for performance.” How bad are they, though? My plan is to create a sample application with a nested view hierarchy using Linear Layouts and compare it to the same layout using…
Joseph Roskopf