Whilst recently working on a side project I ran into a situation where I needed to make use of the Android Firebase SDKs. This project of mine uses Kotlin Coroutines for all of the asynchronous task handling, so ideally I wanted to keep any Firebase calls to use the same approach – not only so that the callbacks would be both consistant but also so that they would tie in with the current...
Last week Firebase announced a new feature within ML kit that was entering its beta stage, Smart Reply. If you’re not familiar with Smart Reply, the functionality allows applications to supply a collection of suggestions for user input based off of previous content from the current context. A common use case for this is within email and messaging applications, you may have already seen it...
Outside of my working hours I have often spent time with other people involved in animal rights — be it volunteering for a local animal sanctuary, visiting shelters or planning with other animal rights groups. One thing I’ve noticed along this time is that the awareness of these groups has never been too accessible — I’ve only discovered them through chance or word of mouth, and having known of...
I’ve always been a big fan of UI testing where appropriate, we can use it to automate the validation of visual components in our applications which allows us to reduce bugs, regressions and confusing behaviour within our applications — all helping us to save time from manually checking the behaviour and display of our view components. In this article we’re going to take a brief look at the XCTest...
If you haven’t check out the previous post in these series, then you can do so here: Building HashTrack with Flutter: Intro and setup Building HashTrack with Flutter: Main class and Localization setup You can also find the code for this guide here: Now that we have the foundations of our application built, we’re going to go ahead and setup the first screens which will be shown to the user when...