Focus in Jetpack Compose
Jun 16 2021
It takes a mindset shift to really get going with Compose. When you start thinking in the right way, working with declarative UI is incredibly fast and rewarding. It takes time to train yourself ou...
Android Then and N-; Caught exception: NullPointerException
Apr 29 2021
Welcome to the fourth instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We'll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look...
Android Then and Now: Navigation
Jan 27 2021
Welcome to the third instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We'll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look a...
Android Then and Now: Callbacks
Nov 19 2020
Welcome to the second instalment in this series of byte-sized blog posts, where we look at Android Then and Now. We'll go through bits and pieces of Android development that have changed, and look...
Android Then and Now: Intro, @IntDef & Enums
Nov 09 2020
Earlier this week I mentioned to a colleague that for the longest time
enums were discouraged in Android Development. To developers new to Android this fact is apparently pretty mind-b...
Presentation - Kotlin 101 w/ Summer of Tech
Jul 30 2020
On the 30th of July, in collaboration with Summer of Tech and GDG Wellington I presented a Kotlin 101 bootcamp at Victoria University of Wellington. We filled up most of a lecture theatre, talked a...
Handling Lifecycle with View Binding in Fragments
Jan 15 2020
View Binding is an upcoming feature in...
Building jamie.sanson.dev
Dec 24 2019
Everyone big in tech has their own site, right? Who doesn't maintain their own blog post site? At some point in time, it sounds like a good idea to spin up something of your own. I toyed w...
Konfigure — better app configuration using Kotlin
Nov 11 2019
If you work on an application which uses Firebase Remote Config or something similar, you’ve probably wanted to test remote changes and run in to some trouble. Making sure config changes work befor...
Handing the Reins to Kotlin Delegates — Part 3: Fast builds, fast runtime. Pick two
Sep 30 2019
In the previous articles we’ve seen what property delegation is, how we can use it to separate concerns, and implement complex getting and setting functionality. This article takes a different appr...
Handing the Reins to Kotlin Delegates — Part 2: This and that
Aug 14 2019
In the first entry of this series we looked...
Handing the Reins to Kotlin Delegates — Part 1: What and why?
Jul 04 2019
Kotlin is an extraordinary language, which is gaining traction at an incredibly fast pace. From it’s 1.0 introduction in February of 2016, it’s quickly become the primary language for Android devel...
Handling a Modern Day Y2K
May 28 2019
Trade Me is an old company, about 20 years old. Throughout its time it’s been one of the largest eCommerce sites in New Zealand, allowing kiwis to connect and trade goods in a safe manner. Recently...
App Links in a multi-app ecosystem
Apr 01 2019
Android App Links helps users get straight to the content they want on Android 6.0 and above. This takes them straight to the app which handles the URL they just clicked on, as opposed to prompting...
Android Pie and the Future of Dependency Injection
Jan 13 2019
Dependency Injection (DI) is a common pattern used in all forms of development for a number of reasons. Thanks to the Dagger project, it’s taken off as a pattern used in Android development. Recent...
