Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo
At Over, we’ve recently translated our app into 12 new languages. This meant that our release process started to get a bit more tedious as more steps were introduced into making a new release for the Google Play Store. We were starting to feel the fatigue of manually completing the exact same steps for every […]
Performing any kind of long blocking operations or disk IO operations on the Android Main thread can cause ANR issues. (Application Not Responding). You may not even realise that you have a potential ANR until it is too late and is already in your user’s hands. If you are lucky, the library or framework you […]
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 […]