Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The cheap projector market really took off a few years ago, and the market was suddenly flooded with units ranging from $50 to well over $500. During that time, I invested in a cheap but decent little unit for around $100 that had HDMI support and came with…
When I see my colleagues writing about Android Auto, I get a sense of FOMO because my car simply doesn’t support it. In fact, I’ve never used it — I’ve only experienced it as a passenger in cars with more advanced capabilities than my own. This has left my smartphone as the only display I…
The Google Pixel 11 may not look dramatically different from the past couple of generations, but there are some meaningful upgrades across the board. As always, the company has made improvements to the camera hardware. The base Pixel 11 gets an upgraded main camera sensor that captures 56% more light, while the Pro models feature…
Macworld A quick and effective way to create a collage from several photos on your iPhone is to use Apple’s Keynote app. You might be familiar with using Keynote for presentations, but it’s also good for making collages. Keynote offers up to 100 different templates, though around half of these are only available via the…
Years of rumors can finally be put to rest – Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, earlier this week. It’s not a cheap phone – here’s the pricing breakdown. That said, its starting price of $2,000 / £2,000 / €2,300 / ₹300,000 is quite close to the Z Fold8’s price of $1,900 /…
Google Messages is the default messaging app on Android phones, and it only keeps getting better with time. It’s also the default app for all your One Time Passwords or OTPs for sign-in codes or parcel delivery codes, and these messages can quickly make the app feel cluttered. Other than tapping the “Mark as read”…
Macworld TL;DR: Pay $69.99 to get $150 in aloSIM travel-data credit, redeemable for 12 months toward country and regional packages in 200+ countries. Coming home from vacation with a souvenir is nice. Coming home to a pile of daily international data charges? Awful. Pay $69.99 for this aloSIM offer, and you get $150 in credit to spend on…
A Clean, DI-Driven Architecture for Managing Cold Starts, Background Wakeups, and Privacy Compliance in Modern Android Apps Image generated by AI Disclosure: This article was drafted by me and refined with the help of AI tools. Every growing Android project eventually spawns a two-headed “God Class.” On one side, your Application class becomes a dumping ground for global infrastructure—third-party…
Why eliminating the double-property boilerplate changes how we protect our architecture Image generated by AI Disclosure: This article was drafted by me and refined with the help of AI tools. If you have written Kotlin in the last few years, you are intimately familiar with the double-property boilerplate. Whether in Android ViewModels or general state holders, maintaining…
Image Generated for the Article I Counted Every Hidden Channel Kotlin Flow Creates — Most Devs Are Wrong About Which Operators Are Free buffer() and flowOn() are supposed to fuse into one channel when chained. I wrote code to prove it — and then found four “harmless” operators that quietly break it. Ask any experienced Kotlin developer what happens when you chain .buffer().flowOn(Dispatchers.IO).buffer(),…