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Styling Android
Personal blog · blog.stylingandroid.comprogrammingdesign
Styling Android is a personal blog at blog.stylingandroid.com about programming and design. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Styling Android is an Android development blog. One commenter names it among solo developer blogs they follow, and another calls its Kotlin mutability article pretty good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A technical guide to improving the UI and UX of Android apps
What Hacker News says?
1. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/ 2. http://fragmentedpodcast.com/ 3. https://blog.stylingandroid.com/ I have more than 30 blogs on feedly. btw, I blog on https://www.codevscolor.com
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Piracy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor Android dev related, I follow Jake Wharton : https://github.com/jakewharton , https://twitter.com/JakeWharton - He is well known in Android community. He has authored a lot of great libraries personally and under Square. Mark Murphy - https://commonsware.com/blog/ Chris Banes - https://chris.banes.me/ Cyril Mottier - https://cyrilmottier.com , https://twitter.com/cyrilmottier Dan Lew - http://blog.danlew.net/ Do…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Qualifications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis article looks pretty good: https://blog.stylingandroid.com/kotlin-mutability/ I would describe the difference between Rust and Kotlin as: Rust offers control over interior mutability and guarantees that there is only ever one mutable reference at a time—Kotlin offers exterior mutability control, not all that dissimilar from final in Java or const in C/C++, but it is better.
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on “Why Go and Not Rust?”With all due respect to the developer who wrote this post, standalone apps are relatively easy - you start jumping into the rabbit hole when you start getting into server API integration and doing processing off the main thread (AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests lions tigers oh my), layouts that don't suck, and custom animations... Making an Android app look sexy/good is an art in itself that I am still…
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on “Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad”
