It’s been 3 years since Jetpack Compose first production release came out and I finally got a chance to learn and understand how it works. I tried designing iOS style stopwatch timer to learn and understand how compose works and whether it should be a default choice for all the new UIs being written in Android. TLDR Implemented Stopwatch timer clock UI in compose. Project can be found here on Github....
I recently joined Amazon and would like to share my interview experience for anyone who is intending to prepare for an engineering role at Amazon. With enough preparation and a bit of a luck, anyone can crack FAANG. (Though you need to be a decent engineer; otherwise, no amount of preparation can help you get a role!) I will not be able to share the exact questions asked in my interview due to an NDA, but I will share all the resources that helped me prepare for the role and the kind of questions asked in each round....
Android Continuous Integration and Delivery, Everyone is talking about it these days. So what exactly it is and why do you need it? Well these 2 articles can explain better than me. Originally written on medium here
If you are using data binding to bind java pojo to view in Android, you must have came across the issue that you can’t really bind image url in xml directly. Android Image View does not support it by default. But you can easily extend Android Image View to create your own custom view which can support it. Originally written on medium here
Room is a persistence library introduce by Google in this year I/0. Room makes it extremely easy to work with SQLite in your android application and worth giving a shot if you are using SQLiteOpenHelper as of now for handling data in your app. Migrating your current implementation to Room is, surprisingly, very easy. Originally written on medium here
If you have been following Architectural components introduced in I/0 2017, you must already be familiar with the Room Persistence Library which provides you abstraction layer over SQLite to provide smooth database access and using SQLite with full potential. Originally written on medium here