At Octopus Energy we started building native mobile apps in mid-2020, just as frameworks like Jetpack Compose & SwiftUI were on the horizon. …

Written 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. …

Written 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. …

Written 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. …

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…

This 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…

This 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…

It’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. …