Bottom Sheets have become ubiquitous in Mobile design across Android and iOS. If you’re using Jetpack Compose, you’ll likely implement them using either the ModalBottomSheet or the BottomSheetScaffold. The former is more used in my experience, so fur...
In long agent conversations, Developers often lose track of how much context has been used. Tools like Claude Code or Codex have auto-compaction built in, but they compact too late. Opus 4.8 has a mil
A task I completed that I wouldn't have (or at least, not without putting several hours into it) without Generative AI: I use an Arch-based Linux distro called Endeavour OS. It's a great OS, but lately, I've been having this issue where my computer w...
Context Receivers are a new feature introduced in Kotlin 1.6.20. They're useful for receiving the context from the call-site when a function is called. To understand it and its utility, let's first take a look at a similar feature available in the la...
Integrating Google maps into Android apps has been somewhat of a tough nut to crack for developers. With the advent of Jetpack Compose for building native UI on Android, the Google Maps team announced a Map SDK for Compose, available here. However, i...
When you're building an Android app, chances are that it'll be interacting with the internet in some way. More often than not, this is through the use of REST API. First, a refresher Ideally, you'd have a couple of base URLs, one for production usage...
An article on how I implemented daily reminders to log expenses on my app Transactions, first using FCM and then WorkManager.
I've been building an app called Transactions for some time. As the name suggests, Transactions offers you the capability to track your income and expenses made through cash or digital mediums. I mostly wrote it for my personal use, but it caught on ...
.tech domains are excellent personal domain names for developers because they basically put up your tech role upfront without even having to open your website. You can get one for free (for a year) by signing up for the GitHub Student Developer Pack ...
