Category: Kotlin

Building an App with Kotlin Multiplatform: Structuring our app

Over the past few months I've been seeing more and more talk of Kotlin multiplatform online. With this rise in conversations on the topic, I naturally became more and more curious about the technology. I recently started planning out one of my next side-projects, Minimise - the app to help us think more about the … Continue reading Building an App with Kotlin Multiplatform: Structuring our app →

Using Firebase on Android with Kotlin Coroutines

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 … Continue reading Using Firebase on Android with Kotlin Coroutines →

Performing OAuth on Android with Custom Tabs

Whether we're building third-party clients for existing API services, or working on our own product that communicates with our own API, it's likely that we might be working with authentication that uses a form of OAuth. This standard of authentication approach is something that we're bound to use at some point in our careers, but … Continue reading Performing OAuth on Android with Custom Tabs →

Android Networking with Coroutines and Retrofit

Recently I’ve been reading up on, watching talks on and been generally getting more curious about Kotlin coroutines. Now that they are stable with the release of Kotlin 1.3 it felt like about time to start diving in an play with converting my existing RxJava code over to using coroutines. In this post, we’re going … Continue reading Android Networking with Coroutines and Retrofit →