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The Do’s and Don’ts of Jetpack Compose
Jetpack Compose is fun. It allows us to build beautiful, functional UIs very quickly and in a reactive way which has unlocked new architectural patterns that were previously very tricky to integrate with the old View based system. As with anything new, it is also very easy for us to shoot ourselves in the foot…
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Accessing the user’s current location and location history without their permission on (older versions of) Android
Caveat before you read on. This article was initially written a few years ago but never published. Google has since then patched this particular vulnerability on devices running Android 10 and later but a lot of users still use older versions of Android to this day so I thought it was still relevant to post…
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Mocking fakes or faking mocks
Mocks or fakes? The eternal question or, if you are a strongly opinionated person like me, not really a question at all. The answer is simple right? Mocks for verifying side effects, fakes for programmable behaviour. What I mean by that is that I always held a very stong view that you should ONLY use…
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A super simple and performant LazyStaggeredGrid for Jetpack Compose
As the title indicates, I have been on the lookout for a simple staggered grid for Jetpack Compose, one that recycles items correctly. Apparently such a feature is in the official Compose roadmap but it’s not planned for immediate development so we may have to wait a little while. In my search, I found a…
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Enable free cross platform play for Minecraft (PS4/Xbox/Switch/phone) with no Realms subscription
Who doesn’t love Mincraft? Everyone does. Who likes paying for a pricey Realms subscription just to be able to play with their friends on their favourite console? No one does! Thankfully, setting up free cross platform play between consoles is actually very easy. All you need is a computer (or even a Raspberry Pi) and…
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Getting Fresco to respect HTTP response cache headers
Fresco (http://frescolib.org) is a very popular image loading library for Android from the folks @Facebook. It’s also the library of choice for the Android team here @ASOS, due to its flexibility in handling complicated image requests (e.g. low and high resolution parallel loading of images), its buttery smooth performance and its very robust memory management…
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