Chris Banes

Data Binding

Data Binding — Lessons Learnt

Some tips and gotchas which I found whilst using Android Data Binding

CI, caching

CI cache key over many files

How to generate a key to use for caching build dependencies and more on CI

Kotlin Coroutines, RxJava

RxJava to Kotlin coroutines

This post is a summary of how I refactored an app which uses RxJava pretty heavily, to one which uses Kotlin coroutines too. Specifically I’ll talk about switching out Single/Maybe/Completable sources to coroutines.

WindowInsets, Animations

Windows Insets + Fragment Transitions

A look at how to get fragment transitions working when using WindowInsets

Animations, Fragments

Fragment Transitions

Using transitions with fragments has a few gotchas, this blog post looks at how to get it all working.

Room

Room + Date / Time

If you’ve started using Room (and you should if you haven’t), there’s a high probability that you will need to store + retrieve some kind of date/time.

Nested Scrolling, AppBarLayout, Animations

Carry on Scrolling

A look at how we added fling support to nested scrolling in Android, to AppBarLayout work in all scenarios.

Website, Jekyll, Firebase

Jekyll + Firebase Hosting

A look at how this site is built using Jekyll, and automatically deployed to Firebase Hosting.

Animations

Why isn’t my animation running?

Let me tell you a story about something I spent a fair amount of time debugging last year. I had totally forgot about it until the other day when someone mentioned something they were seeing with Snackbar, and it turned out to be the same thing.