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Type-Safe Navigation in Jetpack Compose: Passing Custom Classes

Type-Safe Navigation in Jetpack Compose: Passing Custom Classes

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Glimpse of Google: Post mortems

Glimpse of Google: Post mortems

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Glimpse of Google: Design Docs

Glimpse of Google: Design Docs

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Making Compose Multiplatform apps feel at home: removing ripple animation on iOS

Making Compose Multiplatform apps feel at home: removing ripple animation on iOS

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Shimmer animations in Jetpack Compose without extra dependencies

Shimmer animations in Jetpack Compose without extra dependencies

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Avoiding unintentional device exclusion in an Android app

Avoiding unintentional device exclusion in an Android app

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A simple way to proxy local HTTP endpoints for Android Development

A simple way to proxy local HTTP endpoints for Android Development

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How to setup Xcode Cloud with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM/KMP)

How to setup Xcode Cloud with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM/KMP)

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How to clear the state of the app in Maestro tests (iOS)

How to clear the state of the app in Maestro tests (iOS)

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Kotlin's `when` with enums: `else` considered harmful

Kotlin's `when` with enums: `else` considered harmful

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Effortless Django model import & export from the admin panel

Effortless Django model import & export from the admin panel

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Quickly add 2FA (email) for your custom Django admin

Quickly add 2FA (email) for your custom Django admin

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How to format the name and surname of a person in Swift

How to format the name and surname of a person in Swift

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How to style a Text in SwiftUI

How to style a Text in SwiftUI

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Spin up command-line Ubuntu VMs in (almost) seconds

Spin up command-line Ubuntu VMs in (almost) seconds

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Code is liability

Code is liability

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Play Console's new in-app update mechanism: no code changes required

Play Console's new in-app update mechanism: no code changes required

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Non-sequential IDs matter in Django

Non-sequential IDs matter in Django

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Non-Sequential IDs Matter in Django

Non-Sequential IDs Matter in Django

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Keep Your Kotlin Code Spotless: A Guide to ktlint and ktfmt Linters

Keep Your Kotlin Code Spotless: A Guide to ktlint and ktfmt Linters

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How to use SwiftUI + Coordinators

How to use SwiftUI + Coordinators

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Compose walk-through part 3: Theming and Styling

Compose walk-through part 3: Theming and Styling

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Compose walk-through part 2: Managing state

Compose walk-through part 2: Managing state

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Compose walk-through part 1: Basic components

Compose walk-through part 1: Basic components

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Evolution of Android Development: a short summary

Evolution of Android Development: a short summary

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Downloading Files in Android with DownloadManager

Downloading Files in Android with DownloadManager

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Is it a superpower when everyone has a superpower?

Is it a superpower when everyone has a superpower?

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Why Kotlin Multiplatform could change everything in the mobile dev world

Why Kotlin Multiplatform could change everything in the mobile dev world

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Gradle and Java Version Compatibility: A Beginner's Guide

Gradle and Java Version Compatibility: A Beginner's Guide

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How to add Kotlin Multiplatform to an Android project that is using Gradle Version Catalog

How to add Kotlin Multiplatform to an Android project that is using Gradle Version Catalog

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Is quality software a luxury?

Is quality software a luxury?

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Jetpack Compose Permissions: A Quick and Easy Guide

Jetpack Compose Permissions: A Quick and Easy Guide

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Primer to integrate Android Views in Jetpack Compose

Primer to integrate Android Views in Jetpack Compose

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Converting Callback-based SDK methods to Coroutines in Kotlin

Converting Callback-based SDK methods to Coroutines in Kotlin

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Metrics pollution and how to avoid it

Metrics pollution and how to avoid it

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Should we still write software engineering blog posts?

Should we still write software engineering blog posts?

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Bump version code for Android apps using GitHub Actions

Bump version code for Android apps using GitHub Actions

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How to setup GitHub Actions to bump the Xcode version

How to setup GitHub Actions to bump the Xcode version

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Using SwiftLint with XcodeGen

Using SwiftLint with XcodeGen

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Android CI/CD part 2: Building and pushing to Play Store in GitHub Actions

Android CI/CD part 2: Building and pushing to Play Store in GitHub Actions

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Android CI/CD part 1: Locally building and pushing to Play Store using Fastlane

Android CI/CD part 1: Locally building and pushing to Play Store using Fastlane

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Creating a User Profile model in Django to hold additional user info

Creating a User Profile model in Django to hold additional user info

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Essential settings to change for a Django app in production

Essential settings to change for a Django app in production

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Quick start on Selenium tests with Django and GitHub Actions deployment

Quick start on Selenium tests with Django and GitHub Actions deployment

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Removing unused CSS in a Django template-based project

Removing unused CSS in a Django template-based project

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Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 4 - Win-Win

Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 4 - Win-Win

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Generate a QR code programmatically in Python

Generate a QR code programmatically in Python

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Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 3 - Tricky coding interviews

Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 3 - Tricky coding interviews

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Create PDFs from Django templates

Create PDFs from Django templates

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Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 2 - Under the hood

Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 2 - Under the hood

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How to keep your requirements.txt updated

How to keep your requirements.txt updated

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Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 1 - Groundwork

Demystifying the behavioral interview: Part 1 - Groundwork

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Merging Django contexts: merge dicts in Python

Merging Django contexts: merge dicts in Python

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Quick wins in improving your Python codebase health

Quick wins in improving your Python codebase health

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Atomic transactions in Django

Atomic transactions in Django

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Transient dependencies and Play Store violations

Transient dependencies and Play Store violations

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A better way for passing Django context

A better way for passing Django context

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Read and write Excel files in Python

Read and write Excel files in Python

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Google Play Console: Developer pages

Google Play Console: Developer pages

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