Adventures in Navigation Land – Part 2

In the recent series on Maintainable Architecture, the final task that we covered was separating out the Navigation logic by means of the Jetpack Navigation architecture component. Those that read the article will be aware that not only did it help to solve the issues that we were looking address, but it is actually a…

Adventures in Navigation Land – Part 1

In the recent series on Maintainable Architecture, the final task that we covered was separating out the Navigation logic by means of the Jetpack Navigation architecture component. Those that read the article will be aware that not only did it help to solve the issues that we were looking address, but it is actually a…

MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 2

At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…

MotionLayout – Collapsing Toolbar – Part 1

At Google IO 2018 ConstraintLayout 2.0 was announced and the biggest new addition was MotionLayout which gives us an amazing new tool for layout animations. Nicolas Roard has already published an excellent introduction to MotionLayout and I would highly recommend giving that a read to understand the basics and components of MotionLayout. In this short…

Maintainable Architecture – Navigation

Creating a maintainable, flexible codebase is not easy but is an essential part of software engineering. In this series we’ll take a look at a simple, functional weather app and look at some of the issues in its design. We shall then refactor and re-design it to create a codebase which will be easier to…

Maintainable Architecture – Readability

Creating a maintainable, flexible codebase is not easy but is an essential part of software engineering. In this series we’ll take a look at a simple, functional weather app and look at some of the issues in its design. We shall then refactor and re-design it to create a codebase which will be easier to…

Maintainable Architecture – Daily Forecast

Creating a maintainable, flexible codebase is not easy but is an essential part of software engineering. In this series we’ll take a look at a simple, functional weather app and look at some of the issues in its design. We shall then refactor and re-design it to create a codebase which will be easier to…

Maintainable Architecture – Repository

Creating a maintainable, flexible codebase is not easy but is an essential part of software engineering. In this series we’ll take a look at a simple, functional weather app and look at some of the issues in its design. We shall then refactor and re-design it to create a codebase which will be easier to…