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I use Vim as a plain text editor for everything.

Metrics are data points representing your system behaviour over time.

Over the years of using Linux as my primary and only OS I had to embrace some unavoidable facts.

Cross-platform GUI has always been a painful part of software development.

The for loop is one of the most powerful constructions in the C language.

Minimalist interpreters have always attracted me.

It all started with Glitch, a tiny algorithmic music composer.

Previously on Anvil: version 0.1 was the first one to use incremental rendering approach instead of virtual tree diff’ing.

When people first hear about Anvil they don’t trust it because at first glance Anvil seems to be just a replacement for XML layouts.

If you only have a few UI elements, a small data class and your controllers have only a few actions to perform - you may consider using no architecture at all.

Android is probably the second most popular development platform after the web.

A common question I hear about Anvil is how to style views.

New Anvil 0.3.0 has been released.

Libraries are only good when it’s easy to share them.

Those of you who regularly check my blog may remember that I was going to redesign Anvil from scratch.

Dear users, those who were early followers of Anvil.

Benchmarking Go in the cloud Go now seems to be a natural choice for writing your next microservice or web app.

Lua is one of my favourite languages.

Whenever I prepare my APK for the release - I used to do the following steps: Copy keystore to the project directory Copy gradle.properties into the project directory with keystore name, alias and password defined Copy some code from some blog that would…

Palette is an open source lightweight color picker for the most famous color schemes, like Material Design, Flat UI, iOS, Windows Phone etc.

Anvil: version 0.0.7 released!

Once upon a time I was making a pretty large app for Android.

Gradle is too slow, Ant is too basic.

Kotlin is a very nice language for JVM.

Anvil: big progress for a small library I have just released Anvil 0.0.2.

Reading my previous blog post some people asking why I’m so strongly against XMLs if they are really good?

TL;DR: I offer declarative strongly typed layouts with data bindings in pure Java.

As you may have noticed, the site has changed its look.

Most large software projects include automated testing and the reasons are obvious.

So, you switched to Gradle and just finished you new shiny Android library (or java library).

Somehow refactoring turned info rewriting from scratch… So, meet the new shiny mucks app written in AWK language (instead of UNIX Shell).

I can’t imagine my daily work in terminal without multiplexers.

Lambda support for Android Note: big thanks to orfjackal (Esko Luontola), the author of Retrolambda, for making it possible.

I’ve been looking for Java alternatives since my first days of Android development.

This website has been powered by poole for a long time.

Sometimes I do Android development.

Sometimes I do android apps development.

I like Vim and I like using ‘J’ and ‘K’ to scroll text down and up.

Let’s talk about compiler backends.

So far, we have defined language grammar and have written a lexer.

Let talk about the compilers.

I like the idea of Android home screen widgets.

I don’t know if you share my point of view, but I have a confession to make: I hate issue trackers.

Normally, people don’t read ‘hello’ posts.