Principal Engineer, Kotlin GDE, Android Developer, Author & Speakerhttps://rivu.dev/https://rivu.dev/fretpractice-compose-multiplatform-why/https://rivu.dev/fretpractice-compose-multiplatform-why/An honest breakdown of why I picked Compose Multiplatform over Flutter and native UIs for FretPractice, a guitar practice app targeting 8 platforms with real-time DSP, DRM, and Bluetooth MIDI.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/why-emitting-state-from-repository-is-an-ani-pattern/https://rivu.dev/why-emitting-state-from-repository-is-an-ani-pattern/In this post, as the title suggests, I'll discuss why one shouldn't emit View States (or as some people prefer to call it Resource nowadays) from Repository,...Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/service-locator-and-dependency-injection-which-is-what/https://rivu.dev/service-locator-and-dependency-injection-which-is-what/There is a very thin lining of difference between Service Locator (in short SL) and Dependency Injection (in short DI). Most people get confused with these t...Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/unit-testing-in-android-with-spek/https://rivu.dev/unit-testing-in-android-with-spek/Ever thought organizing test cases in Android are cumbersome? For instance, you have a function and there are 3 scenarios you want to test, for example, for ...Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/design-patterns-in-android-interview-vs-data-structures/https://rivu.dev/design-patterns-in-android-interview-vs-data-structures/I'm giving and taking interviews for a long time now (obviously giving interviews for a longer time than taking interviews), I gave interviews to a few big s...Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/writing-android-ui-code-in-jetpack-compose/https://rivu.dev/writing-android-ui-code-in-jetpack-compose/During Google IO 2019, The Android team announced Jetpack Compose, a Kotlin based, unbundled UI toolkit for writing declarative/reactive/functional UI code.Mon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rivu.dev/basics-of-functional-programming-with-kotlin/https://rivu.dev/basics-of-functional-programming-with-kotlin/So you're interested in functional programming and want to learn it, great. In case you are still confused about whether to use/learn functional programming ...Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT