Writing on software design, web front-end, mobile and programming in general.

All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership and more, collected in chronological order.

December 27, 2022

Remix – Infinite Scroll Loading

A quick tutorial on how to do infinite scroll loading in Remix.

May 26, 2020

Jetpack Compose: Calculator UI

Cloned Android 10’s Calculator UI using Jetpack Compose, as it’s (surprisingly) one of the more complex UI structures.

April 26, 2020

Jetpack Compose: Twitter UI

I decided to test out Jetpack Compose by making a simple Twitter UI clone after I came across a tweet by Mariano Zorrilla.

April 11, 2020

Jetpack Compose: Lists

The two ways we can implement Lists in Jetpack Compose.

April 8, 2020

Jetpack Compose: Columns and Rows

As the Jetpack Compose library is being developed, I wanted to quickly go over the layout options we have so far. This time covering Columns and Rows.

April 5, 2020

Jetpack Compose: Container Layout

As the Jetpack Compose library is being developed — I wanted to quickly go over the layout options we have so far. Starting with the Container layout.

February 8, 2020

Android ViewModels: Saving State across Process Death

A quick recipe on how to save ViewModel state across android process death.

November 28, 2019

Quick Recipe for creating DSLs in Kotlin

A pretty cool feature in Kotlin is the ability to construct custom DSLs. And you need just four things in order to write them.

September 2, 2019

Real World Functional Programming with Kotlin & Arrow

Arrow is a functional programming tool-kit for Kotlin. We can apply a lot of the functional programming concepts with it, as we do in other purely functional programming languages.

August 25, 2019

Architecture Components: Easy Mapping of Actions and UI State

When building an app, most of the time what we’re doing is pretty much mapping direct/indirect actions to some UI state.

November 25, 2018

MotionLayout — Basic Setup

A quick intro to MotionLayouts and it’s setup.

September 2, 2018

Useful Rx Snippets #2

Just a few random and (probably) useful Rx snippets in kotlin.

February 20, 2018

A bit of automation with Gradle Tasks

Gradle tasks make it real easy to automate the repetitive things we do, on a daily basis, aside from just building our APKs.

February 7, 2018

Useful Rx Snippets #1

Just a few random and (probably) useful Rx snippets in kotlin.

November 5, 2017

RxKotlin: Login Screen

Rx is powerful because we can compose transformations. What that means is that we can have reusable, safe and more functional code that simply plugs into your code.

October 18, 2017

Kotlin Boilerplates — Android Architecture Components (with Rx, Dagger & Realm)

Some simple boilerplates for the Android Architecture Components, for an easy start.

June 14, 2017

Kotlin Design Patterns — The Command

Just a quick intro to the Command Pattern in Kotlin. And a comparison to it’s Java counterpart.

June 8, 2017

Kotlin Design Patterns — The Strategy

Just a quick intro to the Strategy Pattern in Kotlin. And a comparison to it’s Java counterpart.

June 7, 2017

Kotlin Design Patterns — The Observer

Just a quick intro to the Observer Pattern in Kotlin. And a small comparison to it’s Java counterpart.

September 14, 2016

Rx — If the Operators could speak!

If the operators could talk, how exactly would they tell us what they do?

July 24, 2016

Generating Android templates from Terminal

If the operators could talk, how exactly would they tell us what they do?

June 26, 2016

Android Studio: Using Vim

An intro to Vim on Android Studio (and IntelliJ)… Because I’ve been using it exclusively for about 2–3 months now, and I think it’s awesome!

December 10, 2015

Simplifying RecyclerView Adapters with Rx & Databinding

I recently wanted to dive deeper into Rx. So I experimented with Rx and the RecyclerView Adapters, and the results were pretty interesting!

September 17, 2015

RxAndroid and Retrofit 2.0

Ok, so this isn’t new or anything, but I thought let’s just make a simple tutorial with the new Retrofit 2.0.

June 27, 2015

RxAndroid and Kotlin

When I first started using RxAndroid, I didn’t really get it. I mean, I grasped abstract concept. But I didn’t understand where I should be using it.

May 25, 2015

Android Testing with Espresso v2.0

As an Android developer, I wonder why most of us don’t usually write tests while developing Apps.

May 4, 2015

Android Programming with Kotlin

Behold, there is a programming language out there called Kotlin, which actually makes life easier for Java & Android developers.