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Self-Hosting Courselit: My Journey to a Sovereign and Free Teachable Alternative

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Self-Hosting Courselit: My Journey to a Sovereign and Free Teachable Alternative

1. Introduction I recently decided to set up a home lab, motivated by a desire to have control over my data as well as a desire to learn and experiment. I set up an infrastructure that would allow me to host my data at home to cut down on certain

Understanding the Compiler Infrastructure that Powers Modern Programming Languages

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Understanding the Compiler Infrastructure that Powers Modern Programming Languages

1. Introduction Before the rise of modern programming languages, developers had to write software by directly manipulating binary machine code or using assembly language — a low-level, hardware-specific language that offered minimal abstraction. This process was error-prone, tedious, and tightly coupled to specific processor architectures. Over time, high-

Customize your map with custom layers using Mapbox SDK on Android

Customize your map with custom layers using Mapbox SDK on Android

1. Introduction When you use a map application, there is certain information that you can decide to show or hide on your map according to your needs, this information can be for example the traffic in case you want to have an idea about the traffic of a road you

Part 1 - Compose Multiplatform Made easy with Circuit

Jetpack Compose

Part 1 - Compose Multiplatform Made easy with Circuit

1. Introduction If you're an Android developer, whether you've been one for a few years or just a few weeks, Jetpack Compose needs no introduction. It's a moderm toolkit built entirely in Kotlin, recommended by Google for building Native UI on Android, and its

Create Powerful Tests using Property Based Testing

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Create Powerful Tests using Property Based Testing

1. Introduction Suppose you have developed a bus passenger management application and you would like to write some automated tests to check if your code is robust. The Bus class looks like this data class Bus(val code: String, val maxCapacity: Int = 20) { private val passengers: MutableList<Passenger>

Firebase, Login with Facebook in Jetpack Compose

Firebase, Login with Facebook in Jetpack Compose

1. Introduction In the previous article, we have learn how to login with Google in Jetpack Compose, in this article we will learn how to Login with Facebook, one thing that makes authentication with Facebook particularly difficult on Android is the fact that it always depends on the method on

The Abstract Factory Pattern explained

The Abstract Factory Pattern explained

Introduction Design patterns are a common language that developers can use to communicate easily, in this post we will discover together the Abstract Factory design patterns using very practical examples that will allow you to better understand its usefulness and finally apply it in your everyday life. Abstract Factory Pattern

Taking advantage of Junit 5 extensions

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Taking advantage of Junit 5 extensions

Introduction JUnit 5 is the next generation of JUnit. The goal is to create an up-to-date foundation for developer-side testing on the JVM. This includes focusing on Java 8 and above, as well as enabling many different styles of testing. In this article we will focus on

Firebase Auth with Jetpack Compose

Jetpack Compose

Firebase Auth with Jetpack Compose

Introduction Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs. At the moment of writing this article, jetpack compose is in beta, and the stable

Building complex screens in a RecyclerView with Epoxy

Building complex screens in a RecyclerView with Epoxy

1. Introduction The RecylerView is one of the most used Android components when it comes to displaying a list of items in an Android application, and since the arrival of Jetpack in the Android ecosystem, some libraries have come to life to simplify its use. But when it comes to

Architecte your Android App using RainbowCake

Architecte your Android App using RainbowCake

1. Introduction As you can read in the official documentation of RainbowCake, RainbowCake is an Android architecture framework, providing tools and guidance for building modern Android applications. It builds on top of Jetpack, both in terms of code and ideas. Some of the main goals of this architecture: * Give guidance

Getting started with MVI Architecture on Android

Getting started with MVI Architecture on Android

Introduction Like MVC, MVP or MVVM, MVI is an architectural design pattern that helps us better organize our code to create robust and maintainable applications. It is in the same family as Flux or Redux and was first introduced by André Medeiros. This acronym is formed by the contraction of

Nested RecyclerView and DataBinding

Nested RecyclerView and DataBinding

Introduction The RecyclerView is one of the Android components with a certain complexity in the implementation, and when it comes to having two nested RecyclerView the complexity can increase. In this tutorial we will learn how to nest two RecyclerView to achieve the result as shown in the following image.

Android RecyclerView With Data Binding and Coroutine

Android RecyclerView With Data Binding and Coroutine

Introduction If your app needs to display a scrolling list of elements based on large data sets (or data that frequently changes), you should use [RecyclerView](https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/recyclerview/widget/RecyclerView) as described on this page. Sometimes setting up RecyclerView can be complicated, but the arrival

MVVM on Android with the Architecture Components + Koin

MVVM on Android with the Architecture Components + Koin

Introduction MVVM facilitates a separation of development of the graphical user interface be it via a markup language or GUI code from the development of the business logic or back-end logic (the data model). The view model of MVVM is a value converter, meaning the view model is responsible

Dependency Injection with Koin

Dependency Injection with Koin

What is dependency Injection ? Suppose we have two classes, the Class A and Class B, when the class A refers to class B using some method of class B this operation directly creates a dependency between the two classes and before using the method of a class it will be