As for millions of users, Telegram is part of my communication toolkit: family, friends, community and some pet projects are connected through this fascinating chat system. When it comes to desktop experience, Telegram offers a couple of options: native app or web app. I’m not a big fan of native apps: things like Slack sucking…
Install and run an Android app on every connected device
I usually have only one device connected when I develop non-UI related parts of the app, but when it comes to UI, I tend to try out the app on as many devices as possible. There was a time when I actually had physical devices connected all the time (https://ivanmorgillo.com/2016/01/05/first-hardware-project-of-2016-device-holder/), but lately I have been…
What we have now is not “remote working”, it’s “apart working”
Today I saw a tweet that resonated a lot with me I could not agree more. The whole COVID-19 lockdown created a weird situation where a lot of companies found themselves suddenly “without offices”. From one day to another, people that had always worked in an office were working from home; CEOs that were used…
Uninstall and Run in one shot in Android Studio
As an Android developer, I live my life one repetitive task after another: Clean, Run Uninstall, Run Restart Clean, Restart Restart with Debugger Click here, click there. Tap on the phone. Open menu. Tap menu. It never ends. Plug-in to the rescue To ease up the pain, we developers tend to create tools and one…
Push-to-talk on Meet – Part 2
Let’s go physical! A couple of weeks ago, I published a post about adding Push-to-talk to Meet. I love that solution and I’m using all the time… or I was. The problem is that I cleaned my desk and I restored my home office setup due to the #coronavirus situation: As you can see, now…
Enable Push-to-talk in Google Meet
In this time of forced remote working due to #coronavirus, a lot of people on Twitter pointed out that during a conference call you should have your microphone OFF by default and only enable it when you want to speak. I have been using Google Meet a lot lately and I can easily use Cmd+D…
Can I loop over a Kotlin Sealed Class?
As an Android developer, I constantly write API clients: 90% of all mobile apps fetch some JSON, parse it and show it in a list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ To keep a clear separation between what’s coming from the network and what I want in my domain, I usually have a DTO and a Domain Model. DTO and…
Closing 2019 – Beyond Android
Since I started going around for conferences in 2015, I mostly attended Droidcons. Over time, I realized that I was building a weird sort of bubble and patterns started to emerge: Android vs iOS 💣 My library vs your library 🔥 My stack vs your stack My MVVM vs your MVI RxJava Vs Coroutines 😡…
Gerber E.A.B. – Travel-friendly knife… -ish
I have always liked knives, since I got my first Victorinox when I was kid. The idea of carrying a Swiss Army Knife is so deep in my heart and brain that I can’t imagine myself without a multitool. Let’s be totally honest here. I grew up in the 90s, watching MacGyver pulling off the…
About attitude, personal growth and community
It’s been quite a long time since I have been writing after a conference I joined as a speaker. Today something clicked and I felt like I had to put my thoughts down while driving back home from MobiConf (no worries, Francesca Bertola is actually driving the car 😂 ). The new opportunity A few…