Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo
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 […]
At Over, we’ve been using Kotlin since we started the new Android version of the app in November 2018. From day one, we’ve been excited to try the language features and leverage them to build our mobile design app. One of the features we were most excited about was extension functions. What is an Extension […]
I recently presented this talk at Kotlin Everywhere South Africa as the keynote for the event. I really enjoyed preparing this talk as it spoke about how we use Kotlin, mistakes we’ve made along the way and our opinion on how we decide to use certain features. Talk Description: Over the past year and a […]
Drawing on an Android Canvas is quite overwhelming, there are many different classes and concepts to understand when drawing something. If you haven’t already read part one of this series make sure to read it here. In this post, we will be covering some classes that you will find available within the Android Framework which can […]