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Create an Android app
Have you ever wanted to build your own Android app? We'll in this story we're going to dive straight into the details on how to do this!
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C# 12 updates
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft has released C# 12 which packed a lot of new features. In the upcoming weeks I'll be diving into these update and writing about it.
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Category: C#.NET
.NET benchmarks
Have you ever wanted to test if a solution or algorithm you've written or refactored is performing faster than the previous iteration? In this post, we'll take a look at how you can use the BenchmarkDotNet library to write benchmarks for your C# code.
Bart Kessels 4 min
Category: Android
Plural string resource in your Android app
When your app supports multiple languages using the string resources, it's pretty assumable that at some point you'll be needing a string that is different for multiple amounts. In this blogpost we'll be discussing the solution on how to achieve this.
Bart Kessels 5 min
Category: Android
Automatically testing the UI of your Android app
During your development phase, you'd like everything that can be automated to be automated. This also goes for your UI testing, you can either click through the UI yourself, our let the test runner do that for you.
Bart Kessels 9 min
Category: Android
Enable UI preview in Android Studio
When developing an Android app, you're likely to iterate through multiple UIs. When going through this process you don't want to build and run your app every iteration, for this you can use previews in Android Studio.
Bart Kessels 4 min
Category: Android
Support multiple languages in your app
The user base for your application includes multiple nationalities, so why don't you update your app to allow for multiple languages?
Bart Kessels 6 min
Category: Android
Set up Material Design with Jetpack Compose
You've just set up Jetpack Compose, and now you want to make your app look like a native Android app. This is just as simple as setting up Material Design and updating your UI components.
Bart Kessels 3 min
Category: Android
Set up View Models with Jetpack Compose
You've just set up Jetpack Compose, but how do you properly separate the UI from the business logic? This is were Android has you covered with View Models.
Bart Kessels 7 min
Category: Android
Set up Jetpack Compose
In Android development, the new standard for building UI's is Jetpack Compose. But how do you actually set it up for your application?
Bart Kessels 5 min
Category: Windows
Install Oh My Posh on Windows
Install Oh My Posh on Windows to customize your Powershell.
Bart Kessels 5 min