You have finally taken the first step into your software development career. You came into the software development field filled with excitement and expectations only to find out it is nothing like you expected. You thought you’ll be building the next world-changing software, but all you have been doing is […]
Have you ever experienced a time when you were coding up a solution only to find out midway that there is something you didn’t account for? This thing requires you to redo a lot of your work or even scrap what you have and restart over. One way avoid finding […]
Dependency injection (DI) is a topic that is not quite easy to understand for beginning developers. It doesn’t help that Google search results show examples of dependency injection with frameworks, which removes showing what is really going on.
When starting out with Android development, one of the challenges you may face is trying to update the user interface (UI) with new information. It’s simple to do if the information is something predetermined like a constant string. However, in most cases, you’ll find yourself needing to show new information […]
Before you do something, you should always have a plan. Having a plan increases your chance of success. It also lets you have a roadmap of your project to make navigating through the project easier.
In part 2, you learned about the Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. As a brief refresher, the MVP model is a popular choice when you want to write Android code that is easy to test. It is an architecture that keeps the business logic and user interface (UI) logic separate […]
In part 1, you have learned about the different types of tests that are available for Android. As a quick refresher, there are two types of test. One is pure java test, which only requires the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to run and doesn’t require any dependency on the Android […]
If you have not been writing a lot of tests for your Android projects, you might fit it difficult to start. You really want to write tests for your Android projects, but you find it really difficult to do. There are multiple factors that contribute to this, but one of […]
In the world of software development, Test Driven Development (TDD) is a well-known and commonly used development methodology. TDD starts with the test code and then followed by the actual software code.
Sometimes, you might find yourself needing to communicate with a database such as MySQL programmatically. Maybe you are creating a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) application. Or maybe you don’t have a direct connection to the database.
