Change is life! — Often times, we encounter the situation of updating a variable’s state which depends on some another variable state. There are regular ways of handling this situation by using a function that updates the states and calling them every time we need to make changes in the variables state. In this…

Let’s fill our stores with Data! — In Android apps, we generally store simple data sets using local preferences. These preferences are simple, fast and easy to access. We either do it with SharedPreferences or DataStore Preferences. …

Let’s migrate to a better place! — If you have a huge code base to deal with which is quite some years old and has dependency injection present in it then it seems difficult to get your hands dirty while cleaning the injections with Hilt. …

Catch it if you can! — In this Rest Api series using Ktor, we earlier explored how can we create rest apis. But exceptions are unsaid reality of any code base. It’s very important that our code is ready for any such unexpected scenarios. …

Is it in the Database? — In my previous articles, it is shown that how can you set up, create and test simple static rest apis using Ktor framework. This article is an extension of those three article series and in this one, we’ll explore how can we add database to our apis. …

Don’t judge a UI by its cover! — In the world of Android applications, Jetpack Compose is the latest practice followed for UI development. While it is declarative, it sometimes gets complicated because whatever you designed is all code. Additionally, we’ve so many states to maintain in Composables. …

Alpha alpha! Do you copy? — Almost all apps work with remote APIs for data fetching, uploading and processing. The most commonly used library for this task is Retrofit. As this has becomes very obvious part of application development, it becomes even more critical to test our api layer to verify our set up. In this…

Always have room for change that flows! — A common use case that we most of the time deal with is having a local database in our apps to support caching and using Room for this purpose is very well known. …

Don’t stress! Just test! — One of the most common use case in Android is to have a view model in which we’re calling an api and observing its response. Then we process the response and update our UI state. Because this is a very common scenario, it becomes crucial to also test the same…