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Intro I recently learned about friendPaths as part of the Kotlin Gradle Plugin while browsing an Android Slack group. From the documentation on friendPaths: "Paths to the output directories of the friend modules whose internal declarations should be ...
If you've ever tried to compare the behavior of Row in Google's Jetpack Compose, HStack in Apple's SwiftUi, and something like display: flex in the web world, you'll see some interesting results. First, let's take a look at how HStack renders two lon...
Said another way, how to supercharge your development workflow with a debug drawer. As Android developers, we're constantly looking for ways to streamline our workflow. One often-overlooked tool that can significantly boost your development process i...
As Jetpack Compose becomes more widely used across Android (and Multiplatform projects!), detecting regressions via tooling becomes more important to shift left and detect regressions earlier in the development cycle instead of relying on manually ca...
Inspecting Build Errors Via IntelliJ Plugins To Add Friendlier Messaging
From the Dagger site: The Dagger Service Provider Interface (SPI) is a mechanism to hook into Dagger’s annotation processor and access the same binding graph model that Dagger uses. With the SPI, you can write a plugin that adds project-specific err...
I recently needed to add a debouncing operator on my button clicks in a Compose multiplatform project. I thought I'd share my solution in case it was useful to someone else. First, we define an EventProcessor interface. The concrete implementation wi...
While working on my recent Compose Multiplatform project, Sync Sphere, which targets iOS, Android, and Desktop, I needed to add some debug checks in my application to perform some different functionality when in debug mode. When debugging (which I me...
While working on my recent Compose Multiplatform app, Sync Sphere, I added Desktop as a new target. Now supporting Android, iOS, and Desktop, there was some specific code that I wanted to share and have the same between Android and iOS, but differ on...
