Published in Mobile at Octopus Energy·Jan 16, 2022Member-onlyThe weird and wonderful world of threading in Kotlin-NativeAs KMM has been picked up and experimented with by more and more teams there’s one complaint which inevitably gets mentioned time and again — concurrency in Kotlin Native. Every time a new mobile developer joins our team and gets the ‘welcome to KMM presentation’ it’s the part where I…Android App Development3 min readAndroid App Development3 min read
Published in Mobile at Octopus Energy·Dec 29, 2021Member-onlyScreen templates — using Compose, SwiftUI & KMMAt Octopus Energy we started building native mobile apps in mid-2020, just as frameworks like Jetpack Compose & SwiftUI were on the horizon. …Android App Development8 min readAndroid App Development8 min read
Published in Mobile at Octopus Energy·Apr 5, 2021Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile — what’s all the fuss?KMM’s the latest kid on the block when it comes to building mobile. At Octopus Energy we’ve been experimenting with KMM for the last ~9 months and have built an app from the ground up using the technology. So what’s it all about? …Android7 min readAndroid7 min read
Published in Mobile at Octopus Energy·Mar 1, 2021Member-onlyArchitecture in Jetpack Compose — MVP, MVVM, & MVIWritten as of beta01. Compose is evolving rapidly so some syntax may have changed. App architecture has come a long way in Android world over the last decade. From god activities to MVP to MVVM to MVI with a sprinkling of event buses, clean architecture, and a variety of other…Android App Development11 min readAndroid App Development11 min read
Jan 12, 2021Member-onlyHow to make a RecyclerView in Compose — Part 2Written as of alpha09. Compose is evolving rapidly so some syntax may have changed. In part 1 I took a look at how lists work in Jetpack Compose — the new UI framework for Android. …Android3 min readAndroid3 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Dec 7, 2020Member-onlyHow to make a RecyclerView in Jetpack Compose — Part 1Written as of alpha08. Compose is evolving rapidly so some syntax may have changed. Edit — updated syntax with alpha09 changes If you’ve developed for android you’ve inevitably come acrossRecyclerView, it’s a massive improvement over ListView which came before, but still pretty far from fun. Making a RecyclerView involves a…Android2 min readAndroid2 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Jul 26, 2020Member-onlyDagger and @Inject on constructors — do or don’t?Depending who you speak to, putting @Inject on a constructor is either akin to whipping your own grandmother or is such a blindingly obvious thing to do that the question is ridiculous. But which is right? The Bobites These folk have been fully converted to the teachings of Uncle Bob — the…Android App Development6 min readAndroid App Development6 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·May 12, 2020Member-onlyPart 3 — Single activity architecture + some funky DaggerThis series takes a basic MVP app using Retrofit and RxJava to display a list of Github repositories; and converts it into a modern Android app — along the way it will give an introduction to a variety of techniques used when architecting Android apps, explain why those techniques are…Android App Development10 min readAndroid App Development10 min read
Published in ProAndroidDev·Jan 31, 2020Member-onlyPart 2 — Converting Presenters into ViewModelsThis series takes a basic MVP app using Retrofit and RxJava to display a list of Github repositories; and converts it into a modern Android app — along the way it will give an introduction to a variety of techniques used when architecting Android apps and explain why those techniques…Android8 min readAndroid8 min read
Dec 5, 2019Member-onlyApplication development in 2020It’s coming up to the end of 2020 and a seismic shift has happened in the application world — on a par with the migration to the cloud. …Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
