In this series, I’ll walk you through the steps to migrate an Android app to a 100% Jetpack Compose multiplatform app. The first step is to migrate the resources, including strings, images, icons, and fonts. While this won’t have an immediate or visual impact on the iOS app, it sets…

A step-by-step guide to migrating to a Multiplatform Compose Multiplatform app. App this series will be about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.mapps.winthedaywinthelife.android About the app App is habit tracker like. User is able to define steps in the process and track consistency. User either wins or loses. The goal is to keep win streak going. Some of…

Simplify your code with Kotlin piping and composition — Idiomatic functional programming in Kotlin can look weird and “wrong” because of the ways we are used to working with Kotlin. Kotlin is different from Haskell and F#. For example, if you write the same code just in Kotlin, Kotlin code doesn’t look right. That’s because we are not used…

Exploring the pros and cons of Java’s checked exceptions and functional programming’s Either type for effective error handling This post assumes that you have experience with or at least have some knowledge about functional programming concepts. I will be using an example of Java checked exceptions because I am most…

Exploring the trade-offs between type safety and independent deployability in software design — Coupling in software refers to the degree of interdependence between different modules or components in a system. It measures how much one module relies on or knows about another module and the extent to which changes to one module affect others. It is one of the worst problems in software…

Just Another Tool in the Toolbox, don’t be intimidated Kotlin will be used for examples in this post. Functional programming has been gaining a lot of attention in recent years, but for many developers, the concept is shrouded in mystery. They’ve heard that functional programming is different from object-oriented programming, that it’s complex, that it’s involved in math, and…

I just finished reading a great book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Antifragility is truly an amazing concept which truly makes sense but I never thought about it that way. Needless to say, this book opened my eyes. Being a programmer I immediately thought about…

As programmers, it is common to encounter situations where new technologies are developed and older ones become obsolete. This can lead to a feeling of guilt when choosing to switch to a newer technology and abandoning the older one. When (we) programmers switch to a new technology, we are not…

In my previous blog post I told you why I don’t like Flutter that much and that that was mostly because of Dart. I also shared my love for F# and showed you some really basic examples from compiling F# to Dart. Now I will keep my promise and show…