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Improved caching with Kotlin flows and the reduce function

March 17, 2022 by Annyce Davis 3 Comments

I’ve been on a caching crusade. I’m working to reduce the load on our database by focusing on various caching solutions. In an ideal world, data that is “static” will be heavily cached; minimal database interaction required. However, that’s not the world I’m living in. Each request to our GraphQL API leads directly to a database hit. Ugh!

Apollo GraphQL offers a few caching solutions to help with this endeavor. We decided to go with the responseCachePlugin. This plugin stores cacheable data in a datastore of your choice, for us that was Redis. The key thing to keep in mind is that the data must be cacheable. Which leads us to “the problem.”

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Testing Hybrid Jetpack Compose Apps

September 6, 2021 by Annyce Davis 1 Comment

We’re developing a hybrid Jetpack Compose application. It’s comprised of one Activity and several Fragments. Each fragment includes a ComposeView directly as the entire screen is built with Compose. But how do we write tests for this?

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Programmatically laying out views in ConstraintLayout with Flow

March 17, 2021 by Annyce Davis Leave a Comment

Rotating the phone to landscape caused users of the app to experience a suboptimal experience. Turns out we had some legacy code that was manually calculating the size and position of each “chip”. 😱

Buggy Profile screen in landscape
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So You Want to Be an Android Developer…

May 15, 2018 by Annyce Davis Leave a Comment

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me: How do I become an Android Developer? Let’s just say I’d have a whole lot of nickels! So as a gift to the world I’ve consolidated the various versions of my advice into the following post.

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You have an idea for a new app. You've secured buy-in from the business. What's next? The MVP. But what does it take to ship a new app these days? What are the … [Read More...]

Improved caching with Kotlin flows and the reduce function

I've been on a caching crusade. I'm working to reduce the load on our database by focusing on various caching solutions. In an ideal world, data that is … [Read More...]

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