Nowadays, the MVVM architecture has been accepted widely as a standard on the development of mobile platforms for years(meanwhile, some people are trying to explore the possibility of MVI and we may discuss it in my next post). On the Android side, the LiveData is a really important class in…

As Java developers, we probably need to work together with our old friend, Exception, in our daily life. However, we might know this old friend for years but, sometimes, he would like to stay mysterious. Like, “where did he come from?”, “Does he has siblings?”, and “which one should I…

It has been years since Java 8 was released. No doubt it is a milestone for Java. One of the most attractive features is Lambda Expressions being introduced, which means Java brings developers more possibilities by embracing the functional programming paradigm. …

Kotlin serialization library has been released for a while. As for serialization, the most common use case is to do conversion between JSON format string and objects. Like, we convert JSON format string returned by HTTP requests to objects of predefined classes or encode an object to JSON string. However…