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Create an Android app
Story Series 6 posts

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!

C# 12 updates
Story Series 4 posts

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.

Latest Posts

Setting up guardrails
Category: AI

Setting up guardrails

When using an agentic team, it is important to have guardrails in place to protect the quality of your codebase.

Bart Kessels 4 min
Creating our agentic team
Category: AI

Creating our agentic team

Create your own team with different specialists using agentic AI.

Bart Kessels 11 min
Setting up shared knowledge with Copilot instructions
Category: AI

Setting up shared knowledge with Copilot instructions

All the agents in your team should properly work together and have access to the same knowledge, just like in a regular team. To accomplish this we can make use of the Copilot instructions.

Bart Kessels 2 min
Introduction to AI
Category: AI

Introduction to AI

Everything you read nowadays is about AI, so why not dig a little deeper into it.

Bart Kessels 2 min
.NET benchmarks
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
Plural string resource in your Android app
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
Automatically testing the UI of your Android app
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
Enable UI preview in Android Studio
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