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Keeping Android and Kotlin Healthy in a Post-Twitter World

As the developer communities scatter from Twitter, let's learn from mistakes.

Android Studio's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button

Android Studio has a misleading "Make project" button that you shouldn't click.

Network Calls in Lint: Best Practices

Network Calls in Lint: Best Practices

Android Lint has an API to make network calls, this post covers best practices of when and where to use it.

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Is ViewPump A Security Risk?

Exploring a claim that ViewPump is a data leak.

Android's Built-in ProGuard Rules: The Missing Guide

Android's Built-in ProGuard Rules: The Missing Guide

Android's build tools come with a few ProGuard facets to squeeze the most juice out of your release builds. In this post we'll cover what they all are, what's inside 'em, and what you can do with this knowledge!

Detecting Blurriness with Renderscript

About three years ago, I worked on a project at Uber to try to detect when photos taken client-side were blurry. The goal was to be able to fail fast, ask the user to retake them if necessary, and save the cycle of waiting for something we could programmatically determine

Moshi Kotlin Code Gen: An Open Source Story

For context — see the previous post [https://www.zacsweers.dev/exploring-moshis-kotlin-code-gen/] I wrote about Moshi [https://github.com/square/moshi]’s new Kotlin code gen support. This blog is a somewhat technical, mostly personal account of how it came to be. Origins Moshi’s Kotlin code gen has an interesting

Catching Up on CatchUp: API Quirks

I also wanted to do some practice with using different APIs. This blog is an account of how each one’s special in its own way. There’s no real overarching technical takeaway here other than some neat clever solutions along the way.

Year in Review — 2017

This is my first time writing one of these, bear with me. 2017 was a very different year for me, yet in a way sort of getting back to myself. 2017 was a year where I started doing things for myself again. 2017 requires telling a little about 2016. I

Catching up on CatchUp: Introduction

Catching up on CatchUp: Introduction

TL;DR I wrote an app called CatchUp for personal use and now I’m releasing/open sourcing it. Learned a ton along the way, gonna blog about the things I’ve learned because I think a lot of it is pretty neat. Kotlin, Dagger, RxJava, AutoDispose, Conductor, GraphQL, AutoValue,