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Strategies for automatically refreshing data on Android using Kotlin Flow

Making timers lifecycle-aware

Oct 6, 2023

Strategies for automatically refreshing data on Android using Kotlin Flow

Oct 6, 2023

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Kotlin JSON Benchmark on Android (2022): Moshi vs Kotlin Serialization

When it comes to automatic serialization and deserialization of Kotlin classes using the JSON format, the two main libraries compatible…

Oct 14, 2022

Close-up of a stopwatch

Oct 14, 2022

ViewLifecycleLazy and other ways to avoid View memory leaks in Android Fragments

Yet another take on AutoClearedValue

Sep 28, 2022

A leaky pipe symbolizing a memory leak

Sep 28, 2022

Smarter Shared Kotlin Flows

Make the lifecycle available to the upstream Flow to skip unnecessary work

Jun 6, 2022

Smarter Shared Kotlin Flows

Jun 6, 2022

Kotlin’s Flow in ViewModels: it’s complicated

LiveData is still your friend

Aug 28, 2021

A graph illustrating the ViewModel Scope in relation to the Activity lifecycle

Aug 28, 2021

Fixing RecyclerView nested scrolling in opposite direction

and making ViewPager2 usable

Mar 26, 2020

Fixing RecyclerView nested scrolling in opposite direction

Mar 26, 2020

A study of the Parcelize feature from Kotlin Android Extensions

Life is too short to waste time on writing Parcelable code

Nov 19, 2019

A study of the Parcelize feature from Kotlin Android Extensions

Nov 19, 2019

Advanced JSON parsing techniques using Moshi and Kotlin

A match made in parser heaven

Jul 30, 2018

Advanced JSON parsing techniques using Moshi and Kotlin

Jul 30, 2018

Flash your Lenovo Ideapad laptop BIOS from Linux using UEFI capsule updates

I’m the happy owner of a Lenovo Ideapad laptop (model 710S-13IKB). It’s comparable to the Dell XPS 13 and runs beautifully under Linux, but…

Jul 14, 2018

Flash your Lenovo Ideapad laptop BIOS from Linux using UEFI capsule updates

Jul 14, 2018

Architecture Components pitfalls — Part 1

LiveData and the Fragment lifecycle

Oct 24, 2017

Architecture Components pitfalls — Part 1

Oct 24, 2017

Kotlin singletons with argument

object has its limits

Aug 26, 2017

Kotlin singletons with argument

Aug 26, 2017

Reducing Parcelable boilerplate code using Kotlin

Update (november 2019): I published a detailed new article about how to use Parcelize to have your Parcelable boilerplate code generated…

Jul 15, 2017

Reducing Parcelable boilerplate code using Kotlin

Jul 15, 2017

Fixing ugly Java APIs: read-only generic varargs

and how Kotlin generic types are superior to Java’s

Jun 30, 2017

Fixing ugly Java APIs: read-only generic varargs

Jun 30, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 3

Delegated properties and ranges

Jun 19, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 3

Jun 19, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 2

Local functions, null safety and varargs

Jun 12, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 2

Jun 12, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 1

Lambda expressions and companion objects

Jun 5, 2017

Exploring Kotlin’s hidden costs — Part 1

Jun 5, 2017

Implementing a modal selection helper for RecyclerView

I recently spent some time implementing one of the last missing pieces that prevented me from migrating some ListViews to the new and more…

Sep 5, 2016

Implementing a modal selection helper for RecyclerView

Sep 5, 2016

Christophe Beyls

Christophe Beyls

Android developer from Belgium, blogging about advanced programming topics.

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