Test Driven Development is a controversial topic among software engineers and it is not rare to find very strong opinions in favour and against it. I am on the side of the ones in favour of it for the majority of the cases. This article is not focused on advocating…

Since Google introduced Android Architecture Components and finally became more opinionated about software architecture, some people started referring to it as modern android development. Although those libraries were important to the Android community, specially for newcomers to the Android world, they also created an abstraction on top of the Android…

It is hard to talk about dependency injection without mentioning Dagger. Dagger is becoming more and more popular among Android developers, but let's take a step back and discuss the definition of dependency injection: Dependency injection is a technique whereby one object supplies the dependencies of another object. The simplest…

State management is probably one of the most complicated challenges in Android development. The reasons behind the complexity of state management are tightly associated with Android architecture and in order to come up with a solution, some fundamental Android design decisions need to be understood. Presentation Centric Since the first documentation I…

Testing an Android application was always hard. In the past couple of years, we got access to better tools, but we still rely a lot on architecture and design decisions in order to properly test an Android application. This article will discuss the layers of automated testing an Android application…

TLDR: A big challenge we aim to solve with AppCoins and the App Economy is to allow users to earn coins by paying attention to apps for a certain amount of time. This is also referred to as Proof-of-Attention (PoA). A big part of creating such a proof involves the…