vivo is unveiling the X500 series in China on September 21, and ahead of that, a few days ago the company revealed the design of the X500 Pro Max. Today it’s back with more official images, this time showing all four colors in which the phone will be available. Here they are for your viewing…
Macworld What’s new on Apple TV? What are the best shows and movies? How do you sign up and what does it cost? This article will answer all of that, and you’ll also get a list of all the currently-available Apple TV content. There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s…
Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Many have complained that Apple design has been sapped of some of its trademark whimsy in recent years. Well, here’s the latest example of how the tides seem to be changing. Buried in the Settings app on iOS 27, Apple has hidden an easter egg that hails back from classic Mac OS;…
David Smith, developer of the widely-used Widgetsmith, on Mastodon: The eve of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders seems a good time to look back at the iPhone 17 family’s adoption. Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith. Generally they followed the usual adoption pattern, and overall did very well ending…
XCancel: Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project. The XCancel service is resumed. More details will be shared on the Nitter GitHub project page. Glad to hear it and I wish them well, but I think Zhenyi Tan’s Litterbox Safari extension is a much better solution for viewing tweets on X…
Third-party cases for the iPhone 18 Pro are already hitting the market. Here are some of the cases we like the most to protect your expensive hardware. iPhone 18 Pro cases Apple will open preorders for the Pro model early on September 12, before it hits doorsteps on September 18. Every case in this roundup…
Roblox is pushing its games into standalone apps and web browsers even as 182 federal child sexual exploitation cases remain pending. Roblox The company announced September 11 that creators will be able to release standalone games for mobile devices, PCs, and consoles. Players will also be able to open Roblox games in Chrome by the…
Naming modules is a recurring puzzle I face in my coding journey. As my projects expand, I naturally split them into feature modules—neatly separated by purpose, encapsulated, and easy to test and understand. But the challenge always creeps up: what’s the best way to name and group them? Should I organize by domain? Split UI…
If you’ve spent any time in modern Android development—or really any ecosystem that leans on clean architecture—you’ve probably bumped into the concept of “use cases.” Maybe you’ve seen them praised as a cornerstone of separation of concerns (SoC), or maybe you’ve rolled your eyes at yet another layer of abstraction. There’s a lot of confusion…
TL;DR Introducing the new parcelable library which enables using kotlinx.serialization to serialize data into Android Parcels to be passed between different Android Components. Android Parcelable Android’s Parcelable is an object whose values can be written and read from a Parcel. An Android Parcel is a container of values that can be sent between different Android…