Breaking the ice: Service Locator and Dependency Injection Which is What There is a very thin lining of difference between Service Locator (in short SL) and Dependency Injection (in short DI)…www.rivu.dev There is a very thin lining of difference between Service Locator (in short SL) and Dependency Injection (in short DI). Most people get confused with these terms, even I was confused with them for so long. Even more so for Android Developers, most of us often get in dilemma whether…

Writing Unit Tests efficiently in Android with Spek Ever thought organizing test cases in Android are cumbersome? For instance, you have a function and there are 3…www.rivu.dev Ever thought organizing test cases in Android are cumbersome? For instance, you have a function and there are 3 scenarios you want to test, for example, for 3 different inputs, it’s supposed to return 3 different outputs, and you want to test this behavior, now what we mostly do in…

Why You should focus more on Design Patterns than DS for Sr. / Lead Android interviews I'm giving and taking interviews for a long time now (obviously giving interviews for a longer time than taking…www.rivu.dev I’m giving and taking interviews for a long time now (obviously giving interviews for a longer time than taking interviews), I gave interviews to a few big startups/companies (I now work at one of them 😉), I also took a lot of interviews (currently I’m taking ~2 interviews every working…

Writing Android UI Code in Jetpack Compose During Google IO 2019, The Android team announced Jetpack Compose [https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/], a…www.rivu.dev During Google IO 2019, The Android team announced Jetpack Compose, a Kotlin based, unbundled UI toolkit for writing declarative/reactive/functional UI code. Now, what do we mean by saying declarative/reactive/functional UI code? Instead of writing tough to read, bloated XML files for UI and invoking them with id/tag in Java/Kotlin code…

しらじ(shiraji) You and your talk was were awesome in Kotlin Kolkata UG. Infact we are planning to get you again in future if you can. And we in India love to admire our family, especially wife and son. So you didn’t need to delete that slide.

So my first book — Reactive Programming in Kotlin got published. I’ll share my story here, why I wrote this book and my journey with this book.

I have two back to back events this month (November 2017). the first one is on 11th November 2017, organized by Google Developers Group Kolkata, Reactive Programming in Android. While the title says it’ll be on Android, I’ll try to cover Reactive Programming as a whole before moving to Android…

As Google rolled out Android Studio 3.0 Stable version few days ago, you may be aware of the new improved dependency configuration of Gradle 3.0. It has a drastic change from the previous versions. From the first time we started using Gradle, we were used to add dependencies by writing…

On last 14th October 2017, we had our Kotlin Kolkata Meetup at Nasscomm Start-Up Ware House Kolkata. And obviously, the event was a success. …