At Propeller Health, we work hard to provide services to our users in every stage of life. This includes making our products and services accessible. Recently we have been focusing on figuring out the areas we need to improve in terms of accessibility. So, we took the approach of assessing…

Recently I came across a simple requirement of consuming an AWS pre-signed url in android and displaying the json data in a list, e.g. https://s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/something/foo_bar.json In the beginning, it felt fairly simple; just another API consumption task. With this thought I started implementing the network, persistence and repository layer first. …

There are several occasions when we need to implement sticky header for some list of data displayed in RecyclerView. And of course, Android doesn't have a native UI component to implement this easily. There are several third-party libraries which we can use to achieve this functionality. But using third party…

Recently I came across a question during a code-review. It was in the context of a PR where kotlin class and a bunch of functions inside a companion object {} annotated as @JvmStatic for Java interoperability were used. The feedback was "why we can't convert the class into an object…

Bash to zsh Recently, I migrated from using bash go zsh as most of us did. chsh -s /bin/zsh easy right :) But somehow I managed to break my terminal in the process of setting up AndroidStudio. I am not a shell pro but I like to keep couple of adb and git…

More often than not, we as android developers come across a requirement to display a list of objects and make that list selectable in a single choice mode. Over the time, several ways of implementations have been done. I wanted to share the approach that I took recently to achieve…