Speaking from experience — with a second chance in a software leadership position — In my early software development career, with much hard work, I am very fortunate to become a software manager relatively early. Being relatively young and naive as a new manager, my focus has been on commitments and project deliveries. Still, I did well and climbed the management ladder to become…

It’s not too late to restart your software development career at 40 — Someone once told me, “At 35 if you are still a programmer, consider start looking for some other options for the next half of your career. The younger generation is catching up, and soon you’ll be obsolete.” True enough, at 35, I did start to reflect on what I was…

The more we’ve learned, the more we’ve realized there’s so much more to learn — As developers, the longer we’re on the job, the more experience we gain. Eventually, we may even become the go-to person on our team or in our organization, seen as the technical guru of our field. At this level, we get a self-esteem boost, which is positive. But at times…

A tertiary education is important but some things look even better on a resume — Don’t get me wrong — a tertiary education is important, especially if you attend a school that is closely linked with the industry. It usually provides good pointers and sound fundamentals of what computer science is. However, in the internet-driven world we live in, if you want to start your…

A summary of how Slack stabilized, modularized, and modernized its mobile application code base — Recently, Slack, a popular messaging software company shares their insight on how they improve their legacy mobile code base in a 30-minute long write-up. An interesting read. Stabilize the mobile code base — 16-minute reads Modularize the mobile code base — 13-minute reads Modernize the mobile code base — 13-minute…

Beware of This Subtle Yet Obvious Bug Due To Misunderstanding On ViewBinding — It has tested it enough, no crashes, and things look just right. Good for released. But later it is reported we have a bug! This bug is so special because, It can be easily detected by users, not developers or testers! It is not caused by careless consideration, but on…

Understand why sometimes we need to set ViewBinding to Null to avoid overdoing it — Kotlin Synthetic support on Android to access the view is now deprecated. We’ll need to get on to ViewBinding by the end of 2022. Enable ViewBinding is simply set the below to build Gradle android { ... buildFeatures { viewBinding true } } And one can set up the ViewBinding…

Not all principles are aligned and adaptable; adjustments are required — App design is not just merely the Graphical User Interface one sees. But also its navigation from one screen to the other, and how should they interlink. Fortunately, Google provides us with some principal to refer to as guides. They are Android Developer Navigation Principles Material Design Navigation Guide However…

Hide and Show Bottom Tabs Dynamically As Per Needed — Bottom Navigation Tabs are the common pattern we have for Android Development these days