Thuy's Blog

Written by Thuy Trinh who lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany building robust Android apps. You should follow him on Twitter

Hack showcase: WeekPager2

A swipeable calendar view based on the new shiny ViewPager2 to navigate week by week.

Hack showcase: GPX animator

An Android app to visualize your cycle routes on Mapbox and Google Maps. Mapbox proves it's a better framework to create animations on maps.

How to test receiving events from a hot flow in Kotlin coroutines?

It's a bit more complicated than RxJava due to suspending functions but it's totally achievable with runBlockingTest.

Prefer ListAdapter

If your RecyclerView has to reflect item changes, ListAdapter may be a more suitable way to go. I'll explain with words, code and gifs.

A quick visual guide to set up Danger JS with Bitrise and GitHub

GitHub + Bitrise + Danger JS ⇒ Robust automation

Installing detekt into a multi-module Android project

I totally got lost when reading the docs of detekt. So I wrote down these steps here to hopefully help those who are on the same boat as mine.

Using BFG Repo-Cleaner to delete sensitive files from git history

Accidentally commit your release keystore to GitHub? Here is a solution.

Hack showcase: WheelPager

A quick hack with the new ViewPager2 and a little math.

A convenient RxJava utility for ViewModels: autoClear()

A quick way to dispose all RxJava subscriptions when your ViewModel is cleared.

An easy misuse of WeakReference with Kotlin property

WeakReference and some Kotlin syntactic sugars screwed me up until I decompiled into Java code to find out.

How did I get into coding?

It began with a PC, Internet and my curiosity on how things work.

Quickly get tags for logging in Kotlin

With a little Kotlin magic, we neither need X::class.java.simpleName nor any constant to retrieve tags.

Year in review: 2017

Hey Germany! I'm coming.

Handy TextUtils.expandTemplate()

If you want to make some sub-strings of a localized string clickable with SpannableStringBuilder, wait! There's a better way to do that.

HackerRank supports Kotlin

HackerRank + Kotlin ⟹ ❤️

Name your Gradle modules in CamelCase

Why? If you often work with terminals, this convention will make you a bit more productive.

Remember annotationProcessor?

annotationProcessor vs. apt - Working with code generation becomes a bit easier.