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26 June 2026Magical Book of Compose Performance — Defer State Reads✨We recently gave a talk 🎤 at a couple of Android conferences about how to debug Compose Compose performance & various tools in your arsenal 🛠🧰

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31 August 2020Introducing OkSSE — Kotlin Multiplatform SSE libraryAt Clue, we always want to keep finding new solutions as challenges arise. Recently, we needed to build a dynamic UI driven via backend which motivated the entire team 💪🏻 and…

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25 June 2020Migrating from legacy code Kotlin FlowA lot of the codebases are stuck with legacy code either callbacks, RxJava 1, loaders or other old asynchronous programming APIs and it’s totally fine!

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29 March 2020Go with the Kotlin FlowKotlin Flow is an implementation of Reactive Stream specification made on top of coroutines and channels for Kotlin.

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30 December 2019Build complex screens faster on Android with EpoxyRecyclerView is such an important UI component on Android. But using it can get complex and error prone—especially when dealing with different view types and pagination. Moreover…

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26 February 2018Building Modern apps using the Android Architecture GuidelinesIn this article you’ll learn what are Android Architecture Guideline and how to use them to build modern Android apps with the help of architecture components.

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1 February 2018File template for RecyclerView Adapter in KotlinAndroid Studio is extremely powerful and has a lot of tricks under it’s sleeves which are waiting to be explored, one of which is File Templates.

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31 December 20172017 year in a review: Android2017 was an amazing year for Android. A lot of big announcements happened this year in Android from adding a new language support — Kotlin for happier Android Development to…

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9 December 2017Exploring Room Architecture component — The ExtrasIn this article we will be exploring “extras” aka extra features of Room library.

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22 October 2017Exploring Room Architecture componentIn this article we will dive deep into Room component. In case you missed the previous articles or don’t know about architecture components then head on to my previous article…