How to say the documentation, Ktor is an asynchronous framework for creating microservices, web applications and more. It is possible to use it to create a REST Client for yours Android applications. Before to continue, Retrofit is still a good framework to make API calls, in this article I’m just…

The idea of this article is to propose an alternative to the Android Paging Library that it could handle the pagination without using external libraries, also we are looking for a method that it saves internally the result (offline mode) and that it could be consulted in a pagination way…

As suggested by the name, with single source of truth strategy we are defining a place where to find and store our data, being sure that there is just one source accessible to the rest of our app. Also, it helps us to have a version of our data available…

As Android developer we are very lucky, as with Kotlin it is possible to create all kinds of projects so why not create a backend project for our apps? With Ktor, an asynchronous framework for creating microservices, web applications and more, is possible to create a server application. Setup You can…

In this article I want to propose a method to change from light mode to dark mode and vice versa using SharedFlow. Part I: Animated colors switching from light to dark mode Flow and SharedFlow First let’s look at what a Flow is, let’s read the documentation: In coroutines, a flow is a…

In this article I’ll explain how to switch from light to dark mode and viceversa, smoothly than usual using animated colors. Part II: How to change light and dark mode dynamically with SharedFlow

In this article I’ll explain how to create a swipe button that it launches a callback when it swiped.

In the previous article here, we see how to implement Ktor on Android, now we focus on Logging and Interceptor. Logging First, add the logging dependencies in build.gradle: implementation "io.ktor:ktor-client-logging:$ktor_version" Next, we have to install Logging on HttpClient : install(Logging) { logger = Logger.DEFAULT level = LogLevel.ALL } Logger.DEFAULT uses an…

How many times did it bother you to see unformatted code during a code review? Or how many times did you ask your colleagues to respect the same guideline when they are coding to make the review easier? It is a solution for this problem, with ktlint and git hooks…