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Are you in the habit of commenting out and uncommenting your API BASE URL (as shown below) whenever you want to build your project for Dev,...
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In this article, I am going to quickly introduce you to an android library that I find useful a lot. Android Debug Database is a powerful...
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It’s 36°C in Lagos, Nigeria as at the time of this writing and you can tell it’s really hot. Do you know what is even worse?...
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Of all the iOS libraries I got to know about in the year 2019, R.swift happens to be at the top, for me. Coming from an...
Continue reading...How I implemented my own LiveData for iOS using Swift
I implemented my own LiveData for iOS using Swift. Here’s how: So, I was working on an app, using the MVVM architecture and I needed a...
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