Renaud Mathieu

Android • iOS • Kotlin Multiplatform

10+ years shipping products for global brands and fast‑moving startups.

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Date

DateJuin 2023

Dealing with Date objects in Android

Part 1 - What day is it today?

This series of articles explores how dealing with date objects is not as straightforward as it may initially seem. The complexity arises from various factors, such as different calendars, time zones, and the irregular rotation of the Earth.

DateJuin 2023

Dealing with Date objects in Android

Part 2 — History of Date in Java

Ktor

KtorJuillet 2021

Deploy a microservice in Kotlin with Ktor

Part 1 - Get started

This series of articles explores the process of deploying a microservice in Kotlin using Ktor, a powerful framework for building asynchronous server-side applications. With its lightweight nature and intuitive syntax, Ktor offers an efficient solution for developing and deploying microservices. We dive into the step-by-step process of setting up a microservice, configuring Ktor for optimal performance, handling HTTP requests, and deploying the microservice to a production environment.

KtorJuillet 2021

Deploy a microservice in Kotlin with Ktor

Part 2 - Design the foundation of our API

In the first part of this series about deploying a microservice in Kotlin, we set up a Ktor project. We have seen setting up such a project is quite straightforward, this second part is about how to design robust API specifications that your server and clients can adhere to.

KtorJuillet 2021

Deploy a microservice in Kotlin with Ktor

Part 3 - Access our database with Jetbrains Exposed

Jetbrains provides an ORM framework for Kotlin called Exposed. Since we are fully committed to Kotlin and building a Ktor microservice, we didn’t really challenge using Exposed when we started. Nonetheless, despite its verbosity, Exposed has Coroutines support and, as expected, lives up to our expectations.

Material 3

Material 3Août 2024

Discovering Material 3 for Android

Part 4 - SwipeToDismissBox

This series of articles is designed to help you explore the latest addition to Material 3 for Android. In this series, we will take a closer look at the different components and features of Material 3, and explore how they can be used to create modern and user-friendly Android apps.

Material 3Octobre 2023