We don’t talk about burnout enough. Driven, inspired, passionate individuals experience burnout so often nowadays. I have experienced burnout in a few different forms and a few different contexts myself. Unconsciously, I believed it’s a sign for me that I do important things, that I drive myself to new peaks…

Occasionally when working with RecyclerView, we want to be able to notify on a specific update. We want to know the item position in the list, as well as which update was it (insert, remove, change). Maybe there’s some more information we want to pass about this update. For example, a reason for the change, or the originated screen, or the date it occurred at. — Knowing the specific change will allow us to call notifyItemAdded()for instance, instead of notifyItemSetChanged(), which will go over the entire list.

DroidconSF 2018 Keynote Writeup — Remember when phones were just phones? It was actually not long ago, I remember it as a kid. We had a telephone in our home. It was just a stationary device, like a fridge for example: when you were hungry, you would go to the fridge, open it, grab some food, close the fridge, and…

How to use Moshi Polymorphic Adapter (+Retrofit) to convert Kotlin sealed classes to/from Json — I was working on some internal app for our team. While I was trying to serialize and deserialize sealed classes, things got a bit messy. Turns out, recent Moshi release has such an easy way around it! As it was not incredibly easy for me to discover the solution and…

A loving thank you to an incredible community for an amazing experience 💗 Could it be your turn to speak? — Not that long ago, I gave my first keynote talk! And not just at any event, but at droidcon SF, one of my favorite events!! Apparently, it’s been a couple of months already. But it’s never too late to be grateful, right? 😇 Droidcon has become more than just a…

Intro to ML & ML-Kit for mobile developers — Last post we ran the local (on device) model to classify an image. Now, it’s time to try and increase the label’s accuracy (while allowing more latency) with running a cloud based model. ☁ Before getting started: If you’ve followed along last post, you’re all set and can skip to the next section! …

Intro to ML & ML-Kit for mobile developers — Last posts gave an intro to ML, to MLKit, and discussed why do we need a mobile specific solution for ML capabilities. Now… Time to write some code! Before getting started: Clone this project with code to get started, and the implementation per step https://github.com/brittBarak/MLKitDemo Add Firebase to your app: Log into Firebase…

Intro to ML & ML-Kit for mobile developers — Previous posts gave some idea about machine learning, and how does it work. Now it’s time to start applying it as mobile developers! For some orientation, in this series: Part 1: What do they all talk about? Part 2: How to create a machine that learns? Part 3: About that…

Intro to ML (for mobile developers) — Last post described how to create an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), inspired by the way our brains work. Basically how to create an algorithm that takes data and makes a conclusion. Many numbers on the previous post were merely guesses or random numbers. You might say: “wait, but you just…