Binding the ViewModel lifecycle to your Use Cases — Kotlin coroutines provide an API that enables you to write asynchronous code. With Kotlin coroutines, you can define aCoroutineScope which helps you to manage when your coroutines should run. Each asynchronous operation runs within a particular scope. ViewModelScope A ViewModelScope is defined for each ViewModel in your app. Any coroutine launched…

Fastest way to work is to avoid doing work that doesn’t need to be done — Gradle can save time by reusing outputs from previous executions of a task by matching inputs to the task. Task outputs can be reused between builds on one computer or even between builds running on different computers via a build cache. Since Gradle comes with built-in support for HTTP cache…

Hi, I’m César, I was born in Portugal many moons ago during a stormy day. I’m currently into android, Kotlin and Node.js. I created Dryrun, purrge, alfi, drone and gradlr among many others. I love to write about all things android. I have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and…

When I published gradlr a lot of people reached out to me to find out what was my terminal/theme setup so here it is: Terminal Hyper.js, a fully JS/HTML/CSS terminal https://hyper.is/ download for mac Theme hyper snazzy an elegant Hyper theme with bright colors https://github.com/sindresorhus/hyper-snazzy hyper install hyper-snazzy Shell Oh-my-zsh is an open…

Starting with Android Studio 2.4 Preview 4 and android gradle plugin version 2.4.0-alpha4, Java 8 language features are now natively supported by android: Lambda expressions; Method references Type annotations (currently type annotation information is not available at runtime but only on compile time); Repeating annotations; Default and static interface methods…

Find out what you love doing; Do it everyday; Put in 200% of yourself; Money will eventually come; Find someone who you can share your passions with; Have kids, they bring the best out of you; Enjoy yourself and Be Happy! And… if you’re not happy, ask yourself what are…

Rewriting history without a time machine — Like Vim vs Emacs, Merging vs Rebasing is an endless debate. Both have pros and cons but to the question of whether merging or rebasing is better: hopefully you’ll see that it’s not that simple. Git is a powerful tool, and allows you to do many things to and with…

As a terminal aficionado I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for awhile. Besides being cool, knowing how to use the terminal simply makes things faster. It’s much quicker to type a few letters and press TAB than to click through endless menu options. My goal with this article…

A few months ago I wrote a tutorial about a simple way to incorporate java8 lambda features on Android (which only supports java 6/7 for now). Well guess what? Android Nougat introduces support for Java 8 language features that you can use when developing apps that target Android version 24…