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There was a requirement to fetch nearby data by sending the devices latitude and longitude to a rest endpoint. The location itself wasn’t…
A couple of months ago before Android Lifecycle components where a thing I had a requirement to detect when the application state is in the…
Recently we got custom fonts on Android. So an easy to way to change all the fonts is inside the style.xml, for example if the defined font…
Here is a safe and idiomatic way to the null safe Kotlin operator to check against a value and execute some code. And here is a real word…
With RxJava and chaining operators it is not straightforward how to reuse the previous value of a flatMap operation. The usual way to go…
If you are in the need to see the latest API changes which swagger has generated you will need to run the assets on an HTTP Server. Luckily…
What is the Android lifecycle of an activity. Let’s not deal with Fragments at this point cause they are basically the same but with some…
ne of the most used Design Patterns are Listeners. If you check the wikipedia page you will see that they are categorized as the Observable…
In a recent talk by Dan Lew at Droidcon SF, one of his slide mention “Whatever Retrofit is doing”. He was talking about the creation of…
Some housekeeping again is mandatory, I will move the posts from my website to medium and just reference them on renegens.com, starting with…
Here we are again after a long break. The reason for the break was I was not keen on writing anything that was particular interesting to me…
First tutorial and I will start with a good one. It occurred to me that the pretty little phones we have in our pockets are very good gps…