The Android localization matching system is quite handy. You can define your “default strings” in a directory named values, and all translated strings can be moved to a folder named values-[LANG_ISO_CODE]. For example, the translations for Germany would go into values-de, while translations for Spain would go into values-es. To…

Although I have to admit it is complex, it is quite easy to understand once you know what they do. — Motivation As an Android developer, I always try to be on the cutting edge of my toolchain. So eventually I tried to update the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) to version 8.0. Unfortunately, I failed, and the plugin told me that I had to use Java in version 17. Since I had…

As your Gradle project grows and you decide to split it up into multiple modules, you will quickly find yourself copying and pasting your build scripts over and over again. …

I recently found a super nice example that shows how Kotlin Coroutines work. It provides the bare minimum of code but still shows “all” the building blocks necessary to understand the fundamentals. At work, I took the opportunity to discuss it with my team, and the response was overwhelming, even…

We just recently enabled R8 in our Android app. What does this mean? Why do I sometimes use the term proguard and even added proguard.pro files to the source code? And how do we enabled R8 in the app in several steps? …

If you have a composable function you might stumble over the following block of code. You might have even written it by yourself: val stringState = remember { mutableStateOf("") } Because I sometimes got confused about this “simple” line of code, I took some time to finally understand what it…

And you can be part of it to get some swag! — This is my third anniversary of organising a Hackday. The story began in 2020 when I took over the annual Hackday at ioki, this then continues in 2021 when I started to evolve the concept of the Hackday a bit more to my wishes. This year, 2022, will be a…

Same as last year, I organized an Hackday at my current company. Luckily, we could spend this year together in the office, and not seperated throughout the state. Because of this opportunity, it was possible to order Pizza together — probably the most important part of every Hackday. But even…

Let us start with a simple use case: Imagine we have to build a web app where you can enter an address and you get the latitude and longitude for it. For this app, we want to use the Google Maps Geocoding API. To get the information we need, we…