Making incremental KAPT work (Speed Up your Kotlin projects!)Do you have kapt mentioned somewhere in your build.gradledependencies? Are you using Dagger, Glide, Room? Chances are you can make your…Jun 5, 2019A response icon7Jun 5, 2019A response icon7
Published inINLOOPXIt’s time to ditch Loaders in AndroidThe idea of Loaders never really caught on. They were introduced with Honeycomb around 2011. It was a solution to a problem that we…Feb 5, 2018A response icon9Feb 5, 2018A response icon9
Published inINLOOPXService Locator pattern in AndroidDependency injection is all the rage now on Android but there are also some other patterns worth considering for managing dependencies. A…Jan 31, 2018A response icon4Jan 31, 2018A response icon4
Published inINLOOPXUsing Android Fragments in 2018No, I’m not crazy. And yes — I know there are dozens of frameworks and approaches that are trying replace them.Jan 9, 2018A response icon6Jan 9, 2018A response icon6
Published inINLOOPXSamsung tablets are not removing application files after uninstallI have been seeing some very strange issues where application files inside the external storage (getExternalFilesDir()) were not writeable…Jan 10, 2017A response icon1Jan 10, 2017A response icon1
Published inINLOOPXOkHttp is quietly retrying requests. Is your API ready?OkHttp will potentially repeat your requests on a slow/unreliable connection “aggressively” until it succeeds. This is done for GET, POST…Dec 9, 2016A response icon4Dec 9, 2016A response icon4
Published inINLOOPXAdventures with FragmentStatePagerAdapterA lot of Android developers are confused or don’t even know about the difference between FragmentPagerAdapter and…Dec 2, 2016A response icon8Dec 2, 2016A response icon8
Published inINLOOPXA pragmatic Android application architectureRemember the issues with AsyncTasks and orientation change? Not only would the AsyncTask leak the Activity context, it would also deliver…Nov 28, 2016A response icon3Nov 28, 2016A response icon3
Published inINLOOPXAndroid process death — and the (big) implications for your appWith more developers using Dependency Injection (e.g. Dagger) in Android and adopting patterns such MVP or MVVM, this topic is more needed…Nov 14, 2016A response icon15Nov 14, 2016A response icon15
Published inINLOOPXDemystifying Android’s commitAllowingStateLoss()Many, if not all Android developers have came across the following dreaded exception:Nov 7, 2016A response icon3Nov 7, 2016A response icon3