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ProAndroidDev | New Look - Same Values

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As you might already know since last year ProAndroidDev and droidcon joined forces to bring you the best in AndroidDev there is. If you missed it, you can read all about it in this article.

Today, we are really happy to announce that ProAndroidDev sparkles in a new look!

We can certainly say that ProAndroidDev’s core beliefs haven't changed at all, and we keep standing with our mission and values. This update was designed to improve our website experience by making us more aware of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.

Take a glimpse at the new design:

For our readers, this won’t change a thing and you’ll still be able to consume your AndroidDev content the way you’re used to.

As always, we’re more than happy to listen to your feedback and welcome your input.

From RxJava 2 to Kotlin Flow! Threading

By Vasya Drobushkov

For a long time RxJava was undisputed leader for reactive solutions on Android, though with Kotlin expansion and introducing cold streams (Flow) seems situation might be rapidly changing in the coming years. Though reactive programming is not related to threading in the first place, concurrency and parallelism are very important anyway.

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The power of types for errors

By Danny Preussler

At KotlinConf’19 I talked about the power of types. In essence, I discussed limiting the number of primitives we use in our code in favor of using custom types instead. In this way, we as developers will not only reduce the possibility of bugs by using the compiler, but we will also achieve more readable and self-documented types.

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Java Streams vs. Kotlin Sequences

By Dan Rusu

Java 8 streams are available to be used within Kotlin code when targeting JDK 8 or later. A common question among developers that use Kotlin for backend development is whether to use streams or sequences. Although Android developers can’t target JDK 8, I’ve included some surprises that affect the way we work with sequences and structure our code.

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Creating A Basic Custom Rule For Testing

By Carlos Daniel

Have you realized that in some situations the basic ActivityRule is not enough to cover all the scenario for your tests? Moreover, what if we can write custom rules that define custom behaviours to save us from writing tons of code and to make like sort of setup procedures more shippable to other classes?

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