Category: Programming
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IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio Tricks: Surround With
In one of my previous posts I wrote about one of my favorite features of IntelliJ IDEA/AS: Live Templates. “Surround With” is a sort of LT’s cousin. When you want to wrap a piece of code with a specific snippet, you select the code and hit the “Surround With” shortcut. On Mac you can access…
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IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio Tricks: Live Templates
One of my favorite features of IDEA are Live Templates. To give you a bit of context, Live Templates are those things you see appearing when you start typing in IDEA 😂 OK OK, let’s be a bit more precise. If you are writing some Java code and you type foreach and then press TAB,…
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My IntelliJ Plugin Collection – Kotlin Fill class
I spend on average 8 hours a day using Intellij and, over the years I created quite a collection of useful plugins. This is the first article of a series where I will present all the plugins I use every day 😄 Kotlin Fill Class One of the Kotlin tools I use every day are…
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Go to first unread message on Telegram Web
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…
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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…
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Uninstall and Run in one shot in Android Studio
As an Android developer, I live my life one repetitive task after another: Clean, RunUninstall, RunRestartClean, RestartRestart 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 of my trusty companions…
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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…