Software Engineer specializing in Kotlin, Android, iOS, and Kotlin Multiplatform.https://patrickjackson.dev/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/publishing-multiplatform-kotlin-libraries/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/publishing-multiplatform-kotlin-libraries/Publishing artifacts for multiplatform Kotlin is a bit more complicated than a JVM project. If you are supporting all of Kotlin's platforms, then need at least Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTkotlin-multiplatformhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/certificate-pinning-for-mobile-devs/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/certificate-pinning-for-mobile-devs/Why? Pinning is needed to protect data going from your app to your backend. Without certificate pinning your users traffic may be intercepted by a Man-in-the-miFri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMTAndroidiOSmobilesecurityhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/redux-on-multithreaded-platforms/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/redux-on-multithreaded-platforms/Writing code with Redux for web really doesn't require consideration of threading and concurrent modification of variables. Given Javascript is single threaded Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTreduxhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/kadanes-algorithm/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/kadanes-algorithm/Computer science history is all about building upon the work that came before us – "standing on the shoulders of giants" as it goes. Kadane's Algorithm is no exTue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTComputer Sciencehttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/unsupported-kotlin-plugin-version-android-studio/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/unsupported-kotlin-plugin-version-android-studio/If you run into this in Android Studio, you may need a gradle update. I've ran into this while using Gradle v5.6.2 and Kotlin v1.3.61. I was also using the kotlWed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTAndroidhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/multiplatform-apple-appstore-thoughts/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/multiplatform-apple-appstore-thoughts/Apple has always valued great user experience. Its App store is guarded by App store reviews with the authority to reject anything that does not meet its standaSat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTopinionhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/coroutine-delay/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/coroutine-delay/A common pattern is to delay execution of some code for a given amount of time. In Android and iOS there are several ways to do, such as the above snippet. How Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTkotlin-multiplatformhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/reduxkotlin-org/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/reduxkotlin-org/Earlier this year I began work on ReduxKotlin.org – a port of the Javascript library Redux. This series of posts will describe the what, why, how, and the visioSat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTreduxreduxkotlinhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/html-in-textviews/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/html-in-textviews/Using HTML in TextViews can be helpful for formatting, especially when displaying content retrieved from a server. For optimal layout and control a custom nativSat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTAndroidhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/android-essentials-merge-tag/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/android-essentials-merge-tag/When inflating a layout from XML for a custom view or in an <include> tag in a xml layout, the <merge> tag is essential. The merge tag does exactly that – it meSun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTAndroidhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/optimizing-build-time/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/optimizing-build-time/Android developers get all the benefits of a nice statically compiled language, but that comes at a cost – build time. Compile times can add up quickly and be aSat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTAndroidhttps://patrickjackson.dev/blog/tolowercase-lint-warnings/https://patrickjackson.dev/blog/tolowercase-lint-warnings/You may run across a lint warning in Java or Kotlin on when using String.toLowerCase(). "Implicitly using the default locale is a common source of bugs: Use toLThu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTUncategorized