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Data & Networking

Room, Retrofit, OkHttp, offline-first patterns, and data management

How WorkManager Works Internally — WorkDatabase, Schedulers, Constraint Monitoring, Expedited Work, and Survival Across Reboot
How WorkManager Works Internally — WorkDatabase, Schedulers, Constraint Monitoring, Expedited Work, and Survival Across Reboot

WorkManager stores tasks in a Room database and uses system APIs to run them. It covers WorkDatabase tables (WorkSpec, Constraint, Dependency), schedu...

How Room Works Internally — Code Generation, InvalidationTracker, WAL, Threading, and Schema Validation
How Room Works Internally — Code Generation, InvalidationTracker, WAL, Threading, and Schema Validation

Room generates real implementation classes at compile time — no reflection. This guide opens Room's hood: what AppDatabase_Impl and ArticleDao_I...

Image Loading in Android — Coil for Compose, Glide for XML, Caching, Transformations, and Production Patterns
Image Loading in Android — Coil for Compose, Glide for XML, Caching, Transformations, and Production Patterns

Loading images means downloading, decoding, resizing, caching, and error handling — libraries do it in one line. This step-by-step guide covers ...

Title: WorkManager in Android — Background Work, Constraints, Chaining, Foreground Service, and Hilt Integration
Title: WorkManager in Android — Background Work, Constraints, Chaining, Foreground Service, and Hilt Integration

WorkManager guarantees background work even if the app closes or the phone restarts. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model (postal service),...

Paging 3 in Android — PagingSource, RemoteMediator, LazyColumn Integration, and Offline-First Pagination
Paging 3 in Android — PagingSource, RemoteMediator, LazyColumn Integration, and Offline-First Pagination

Load 10,000 items 20 at a time as the user scrolls. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model, network-only PagingSource with load/getRefreshKey...

OkHttp Interceptors and HTTP Caching — Auth Tokens, Logging, Retry, Offline Support, and Production Setup
OkHttp Interceptors and HTTP Caching — Auth Tokens, Logging, Retry, Offline Support, and Production Setup

HTTP request passes through OkHttp interceptors. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model (airport checkpoints), how interceptors work, applica...

Retrofit Complete Guide — HTTP Requests, JSON Parsing, Interceptors, Error Handling, and Production Setup
Retrofit Complete Guide — HTTP Requests, JSON Parsing, Interceptors, Error Handling, and Production Setup

Retrofit generates HTTP client code from annotated Kotlin interfaces. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model, DTOs with Gson/Moshi, the API i...

Room Migrations, Relations, and Advanced TypeConverters — Schema Changes, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many, and Testing
Room Migrations, Relations, and Advanced TypeConverters — Schema Changes, One-to-Many, Many-to-Many, and Testing

Your database schema will change — migrations handle it without losing data. Your data model has connections — relations handle them clean...

Android Room Database — Entities, DAOs, Reactive Queries with Flow, TypeConverters, and Complete Setup
Android Room Database — Entities, DAOs, Reactive Queries with Flow, TypeConverters, and Complete Setup

Room wraps SQLite with a type-safe, compile-time validated, Kotlin-native API. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model, Entity with @PrimaryKe...

SharedPreferences vs DataStore — Why DataStore Wins and How to Migrate Step by Step
SharedPreferences vs DataStore — Why DataStore Wins and How to Migrate Step by Step

SharedPreferences blocks the main thread, has no type safety, and silently fails. DataStore fixes everything with Flow, suspend functions, and typed k...