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…

Sharing some traps of Android Deeplink learned — Implementing deep links in Android seems straightforward. The document shares what needs to be done. But there are some subtle traps we'll fall into if one is not careful. I’m sharing it here for all to learn ahead. Before that, let me share the basics first. If you are familiar…

Enable M1 to read NTFS (Windows-based) Storage — In the past, we can just plug in an NTFS External Drive to a MacBook (Intel-based silicon), we will get a read-only mode, where we can read and use the content on the drive. (Not write though) After moving from a normal Intel-Based MacBook to M1 Macbook (Apple-Silicon), one problem…

Manually linking XML Bottom Bar Navigation Bar with Navigation Component with Route — I have previously shared in the past articles on using Navigation Component with XML Based Bottom Bar Navigation using The XML Navigation Graph Approach The Programmatic Coded Navigation Graph Approach The Bottom Bar Tab when clicked will automatically navigate to the right Container Fragment without any issue. Bottom Bar Tab and Navigation Graph Node already linked

Eliminate the need for XML with Code for Navigation Component — Navigation Component is awesome for Fragment management, including Multi Stack Fragments of Bottom Bar Tab, as shared by the article below. Fragments Swapping of Bottom Bar Using Navigation Component Using Android Provided Navigation Component to Simplify Multi-Stack Fragment Swappingmedium.com However, the disadvantage of it, that it is relying on XML, which is a pain in using because

Using Android Provided Navigation Component to Simplify Multi-Stack Fragment Swapping — Back in 2018, before we have Navigation Component, I have written an article about how we can swap stacks of Fragments hosted through Bottom Bar. There was no Google default solution to it at that time. Fragments swapping with Bottom Bar Bottom bar is the latest design trend for Android Development, but how do we swap around the fragments within and…proandroiddev.com