Navigating through memory leaks and thread safety using Kotlin’s late initialisation options — In part I, we successfully cleaned up our resources after we were done making use of a Behaviour. The solution of choice made me to make a property nullable even though I felt like it should not be. I wonder why I need to do this when I am sure…

Navigating through memory leaks and thread-safety using Kotlin’s late initialization options — I really like the lateinit the modifier in Kotlin. It is such a small word and yet it provides us with so much convenience. In a nutshell, the lateinit modifier enables us to tell Kotlin that a property will be initialized at a later time. …

Opinionated tips on how to make your code challenge submissions pleasant to review during the hiring process — Over the past couple of months, I have written and reviewed a ton of code. My Github contributions chart says that code reviews amount to 65%+ of my contributions in the past year. …

Talking about my experience as a mobile engineer while learning some DevOps — I recently completed the Cloud Dev Ops Engineer Nanodegree Program offered by Udacity. It was fun, exciting and scary. I was excited to venture into an aspect of software development which has mostly been a black box area to me. As soon as I completed my capstone project, I…

My attempt towards building a proxy server using Ktor as the backbone and some other cool Kotlin libraries. — Most mobile developers and front end developers have been in a situation where they are stuck waiting for the backend services to be ready so that they can test a new flow or screen. …

My first year in Deutschland. Also, cheers to the new year. — It has been exactly one year since I left Lagos, Nigeria for Hamburg, Deutschland. I came here to work as an android engineer. Reminiscing over the past twelve months, I’ll say that I’ve had quite the experience. I was nervous when I was leaving everyone and everything that I’ve spent…

In Kotlin, Java; and a little bit of generics too. — In the previous post, I gave a brief explanation and provided some examples on how covariance works in Java and Kotlin. As promised, in this post we will go deeper into the remaining two: contravariance and invariance. …

In Kotlin, Java; and a little bit of generics too. — In the first part of this post, I gave a brief explanation and provided some examples on the different variance type systems. As promised, in this post we will go deeper into this topic. We will find out what these actually imply in the Java and Kotlin type systems. To…

In Kotlin, Java; and a little bit of generics too. — In one of my previous posts, I talked about how I decided to understand the keywords and concepts behind the Kotlin language. I did this by providing a simple explanation of the inline, noinline and crossinline keywords in Kotlin. Today I will try and explain some other concepts. To do…