Keyboard driven development
I learnt how to work with my intelliJ / Android Studio without using my mouse and what I most like is that I spend less time executing the actions that I need, like refactoring, managing files, etc and I am …
Modeling my presentation layer
After modeling my domain layer here it comes, modeling my presentation layer. The reason for this post is that I saw in many projects that are moving from a legacy codebase to an MVP approach that there are some issues …
Continous integration on Android with travis CI
Testing is trending topic. At least, in my twitter timeline and the guys that I’m used to talk about Android with. This is a good thing because testing is mandatory in a serious project, but assuming that all of us have …
Sad code
I’m pretty sure that you have in the past read some pieces of code that are not well done, or, at least, you had that impression. When you are reading a fragment of code for the first time, it is …
Say goodbye to all main thread problems in MVP
Months ago I created a sample project demonstrating clean architecture in Android, you can see it here. One of the main problems when I created this project was the threading, in Android if you do too much work in the …
Another approach to handle domain errors
Handling the internal domain errors as exceptions was a bad idea and I didn’t like since the beginning. For me an Exception must be thrown when there is no other choice, the method can’t deal with that action and the caller …
Modeling my Android domain layer
Since my last post about why I don’t use a pure repository pattern in Android I received some feedback and I want to explain how I organize my domain layer.
What should be my domain layer
Everything. No, seriously, everything that are …
What is the repository pattern and why I’m not going to use it on Android
It seems that repository pattern is trending in the Android architecture examples that I find (including my example Clean-Contacts) and maybe it is because we are not applying the repository pattern how is meant to be. I talked about clean architecture …
Compiling AOSP for your Nexus device on Mac OSX
Requirements
8GB of RAM, recommended 16GB
100 gb of free space on your drive
Preparing the environment
First we need a case-sensistive file system, so we need to create a sparseimage because by default the OSX system is not case-sensitive
hdiutil create -type SPARSE -fs …
City mapper coloured tabs and coordinator layout
City Mapper is one of the most known transport apps out there, personally I find it the best by far. Lately, they’ve changed their UI/UX which I find particularly useful and beautiful.
One of the widgets I like the most …