Accessibility Amplified: A Journey to Inclusive Android Apps

In this post, we’ll look at accessibility on Android and how it might help build a more inclusive and fair technology environment.

Kotlin allows for more efficient code writing by using extension functions on collections to simplify operations, like turning a list of user names into a comma-separated string directly, which eliminates the need for an additional iterator and intermediate collection.

I was recently optimizing a small part of the Jetpack Compose runtime when I stumbled upon a seemingly harmless API, isBlank(). This API return true if the string it’s called on is empty or consists solely of whitespace characters. But is it truly harmless? Let’s look at...

In the world of Compose, there are a vast range of modifiers that are available at our disposable. As you build more and more UI with Compose, it’s likely that you’re going to discover new modifiers that you previously were not aware of. For me this week it was the aspectRatio modifier – so in this post, we’re going to take a quick dive into what this is and how we can make use of it in our projects.

My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word: "impact." If you have worked in big tech, you're probably all too familiar with this word because your annual performance evaluations are based on your impact.