Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo
Android Studio 4.0 has been released in the stable channel! 🥳 What does this mean for us? Well, the new Motion Editor is in Android Studio 4.0 and if you are someone who prefers to use the stable version of tooling, this is probably your first look at the Motion Editor. In this blog post, […]
Wow, what a weird time to be alive, huh? I’m writing this on Day 29 of the lockdown in South Africa due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not sure I have the right words to address the current situation, nor the expertise to talk about it. However, I am good at talking about Android and […]
What is an inline class? 🧐 An inline class is a special type of class defined in Kotlin that only has one property. At runtime, the compiler will “inline” the property where it was used. This is similar to inline functions, where the compiler inserts the contents of the function into where it was called. Example […]
Day-to-day tasks as an Android Developer can consist of varying jobs to complete your work effectively. Whether it is making sure your network requests are correct or ensuring pixel-perfect screens, there are a few tools that have made my day-to-day development easier. These are some of my favourites: Vysor Vysor is my go-to tool for […]
I’ve been working on getting Dark Mode in our app fully supported and I stumbled upon an interesting finding: The Application#applicationContext does not keep information about the theme that you have set via AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode(), only a View or Activity context has this information stored. After reading through Chris Banes’ articles and watching some great talks […]