Huynh N N Minh
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Android/Kotlin

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Kotlin Flows: Exception transparency

Nov 12, 20236 min read

Introduction A flow is a stream of data that can be computed asynchronously. It’s useful when we need to emit multiple values sequentially. For...

Kotlin Flows: Exception transparency

Android Memory Management #4: Handling Bitmaps

Nov 12, 20225 min read

Loading bitmaps in an Android app is a tricky task. Bitmap takes an enormous amount of memory. For example, a photo taken on Pixel 6 Pro has about...

Android Memory Management #4: Handling Bitmaps

Android Memory Management #3: Memory Leaks

Oct 16, 20227 min read

The ART virtual machine in Android is a managed memory environment. The garbage collector takes care of memory allocation and frees it back to the...

Android Memory Management #3: Memory Leaks

Android Memory Management #2: Deal with the memory pressure

Oct 1, 20229 min read

When an application starts, the Android system starts a new process for that application with a single thread of execution (the main thread). In...

Android Memory Management #2: Deal with the memory pressure

Android Memory Management #1: Stack, Heap and Garbage Collector

Sep 11, 20226 min read

Overview Memory is a valuable resource in software development, especially within the Android ecosystem, where physical memory is often constrained....

Android Memory Management #1: Stack, Heap and Garbage Collector