Sharing my experience and thoughts around market visits and building for the customer. I haven’t written in a while, but this is another interesting article to close the year, at least on a different domain, not the usual technical articles I write. This week, I joined two of my team…

Have you ever tried overlaying patterns on google map? No? 😦 . Well you must have used google maps if you are an Android Ninja 🏄. Let’s buckle up and scribble on google map. Today quite a number of mobile applications requires maps. They require maps, to either show the…

This is a helper component that manages the recyclerView data states. It shows the loading progress and a message to the users when there is no records to show. It is a good practice showing a message to the users than just a blank screen when there are no records. …

Generating the placeholder image for profile name. Takes the first character of a name. ( AvatarImageGenerator Android Library) 🚀 Has over 1500 downloads in Bintray 🚣 I like playing on the canvas with the canvas, painting here and there. …

Android Floating Widget Library. It has been a few months since I wrote an article, It was on Android Permission library, QuickPermission, this is the link to the article https://medium.com/@koriramos/android-runtime-permission-library-d9ef175d2856 . Lately, I have been really held up with a few projects to manage and fix a few bugs and…

(QuickPermission) From android 6.0, marshmallow, runtime permission was introduced, declaring permission in the manifest file is not longer enough, the application should request for permission from the user at the specific time that, the permission is required. These includes dangerous permission which might affects user’s privacy. These permission include Storage…

This is quick start with dependency injection with dagger 2 In software engineering, dependency injection is a technique whereby one object supplies the dependencies of another object. A “dependency” is an object that can be used, for example as a service. from Wikipedia 😃 I am not trying to explain…

When building android application, we always try to support the early versions of android .Firebase test lab helps to quickly run emulated test in various phone models, providing screenshots for each phone model and test results. 🚀 We still use manual testing approach with real actual phones. There are some…

This is a short step by step guide on handling retrofit error responses in an MVP architecture. To make an API call, you would probably create streams within the repositories that can be subscribed to within the presenters. In some occasions the API returns a different JSON than the expected…