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ProAndroidDev

Why has my background Worker stopped? Exploring Android WorkManger’s StopReason

StopReason is a new powerful tool to gain info about the unexpected stop of the background workers in our app. Let’s explore how it works!

10 min readSep 18, 2023

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Why has my background Worker stopped? Exploring Android WorkManger’s StopReason

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Paolo Rotolo
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ProAndroidDev

How to avoid asking for Android Context in Kotlin Multiplatform libraries API

Uniform your Kotlin Multiplatform library APIs on Android, iOS, and other targets removing the need of asking an Android Application…

5 min readAug 6, 2023

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How to avoid asking for Android Context in Kotlin Multiplatform libraries API

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Paolo Rotolo
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ProAndroidDev

10 Tips for Android Library Developers

If you’re distributing a library or just maintaining some library modules in your project, here’re some tips that may be useful to you.

9 min readAug 13, 2019

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10 Tips for Android Library Developers

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ProAndroidDev

Suspend what you’re doing: Retrofit has now Coroutines support!

How to write async network requests with Kotlin Coroutines and Retrofit

4 min readJun 27, 2019

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Suspend what you’re doing: Retrofit has now Coroutines support!

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Corouteam

Exploring Kotlin Coroutines and Lifecycle Architectural Components integration on Android

What’s new in Android lifecycle and Coroutines integration with lifecycleScope and LiveData building blocks.

7 min readMay 23, 2019

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Exploring Kotlin Coroutines and Lifecycle Architectural Components integration on Android

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Paolo Rotolo
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Nextome

Render a GeoJson layer with Google Maps, OSM or Mapbox on Android

GeoJson is a relatively new open standard format (GeoJSON as RFC 7946 were released in August 2016) designed to represent simple…

5 min readMay 5, 2017

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Render a GeoJson layer with Google Maps, OSM or Mapbox on Android

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Paolo Rotolo
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Glucosio Project

HOW-TO Android 7.1: App Shortcuts

After a few months of developer preview, this week Google officially released Android 7.1. Factory images are in fact already available for…

3 min readDec 9, 2016

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HOW-TO Android 7.1: App Shortcuts

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Glucosio Project

What’s new in Firebase Cloud Messaging and how to migrate from GCM

At I/O 2016, Google turned Firebase into an unified mobile platform and migrated to it some existing services service like Google Cloud…

4 min readJun 13, 2016

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What’s new in Firebase Cloud Messaging and how to migrate from GCM

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Glucosio Project

Moving from Dialogs to BottomSheetDialogs on Android

With Android Support Library 23.2, Google announced support for Bottom Sheets. According to Material Design, Bottom Sheets are elements…

3 min readJun 8, 2016

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Moving from Dialogs to BottomSheetDialogs on Android

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Paolo Rotolo
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Glucosio Project

Build a nice UX to backup and sync your app data on Google Drive (3/3)

In my previous posts I’ve explained how to export/import a Realm database from your app and how to eventually backup it on Google Drive. If…

8 min readMay 21, 2016

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Build a nice UX to backup and sync your app data on Google Drive (3/3)

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Paolo Rotolo

Paolo Rotolo

Android Dev @ Blinkist. Lead @GDG Bari. Pursuing Master in Computer Engineering at PoliBa. Big #OpenSource supporter and #Kotlin fan.

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