Egor's Blog

The RX libraries have gained great popularity among developers lately. RX solves asynchronous programming elegantly based on the Observer pattern. This is especially helpful on Android where lots of interactions are asynchronous to the UI. [Read More]

Android is constantly evolving, every year we get new cool features and new awesome APIs added to the SDK. But backwards compatibility has always been an issue. Here’s the Android versions distribution at the time of writing: [Read More]

I’ve recently stumbled upon an interesting article called Aspect Oriented Programming in Android by Fernando Cejas. I heard about the aspect-oriented programming (AOP) with AspectJ a long time ago and it’s always seemed pretty exotic to me, but after I’ve reviewed the concepts and the advantages of AOP and learned... [Read More]

One of the core properties of automated tests is that they should be reliable, meaning that a test should either pass or fail, no matter how many times or in what conditions it is being run. Tests that tend to sometimes fail with no clear reason are usually called flaky,... [Read More]

Espresso is a pretty powerful tool when it comes to writing acceptance tests for Android. Acceptance tests are the ones that make sure your entire feature (or a certain aspect of the feature) is implemented correctly. The advantage of automating acceptance tests is the simplicity of catching regressions, which usually... [Read More]