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It’s been a few years since I started writing this blog, and I quite like sharing my thoughts and experiences. After a short while spent on Medium, I decided I wanted to be the sole owner of my content, so I started experimenting with different solutions and ideas. After I finally landed on the “perfect” tech architecture (I know, I’m lying. There’s no perfect solution and Future Me will most likely refactor and (over)re-engineer the current solution), I started to seek the “perfect” writing setup. ...

If you are starting a project with Kotlin Multiplatform and you want to share the network layer, the best way to go is definitely with Ktor. But if you don’t want to share the entire network layer but maybe only the DTOs? There could be many reasons for wanting this. Maybe you are starting to integrate Kotlin Multiplatform (I’ll call it KMP in the rest of the article) into an existing project and the work for sharing the entire network layer is simply too much. ...

Recently, I’ve started to work on (yet another) side project: Money Flow. As the name suggests, this is an application to help me track all the expenses and incomes. I’ve thought and designed it almost a year ago but only now I’ve found the time to start writing actual code. A first design iteration, that will change a bit ...

During my journey as a mobile developer, I had the chance to try and give a look at some cross-platform solutions both for work and fun reasons. Today, I want to share my thoughts and considerations about them and why/when you should use cross-platform. I hope that these thoughts will be helpful to anyone that is in the process of choosing the right solution for their product. Disclaimer: in this article, I will share some opinions based on my experience and they can apply to your situation or not. If you want to share your considerations, feel free to reach me out on Twitter @marcoGomier. ...

Last week my parents asked me to download to their phones a simple QR Reader. So I opened the Play Store and I started to search an easy to use application, without lot’s of noise (oh, I mean intrusive ads..) and without ulterior motives. Well, I wandered around the Play Store for an hour without finding an answer. Some apps will require all the imaginable permission only to scan a QR code. Come on, why do you need my contacts and my location for the scanning? 🤬 ...

Today I want to share Friends Tournament, a side project that I have been working on for the past year during my spare time. Friends Tournament is a simple application that will help you to manage and organize tournaments with your friends. You can use it to generate videogames tournament, sports tournament, board games tournament, whatever type of tournament do you want. All you need to do is to provide the number of players, the number of matches and the numbers of player that can play at the same time. That’s all! Friends Tournament will then generate the matches and the rounds for you. You can then keep the score of each player and a leaderboard will be generated automatically. ...

Which framework should I use? How to build UIs? How do things work under the hood? These are the types of questions that I’ve answered during the series of articles about Flutter and React Native. Some time ago I started learning Flutter for fun reasons and at the same time, I (had to) started learning React Native for work reasons. While learning and using them, I started to see some differences and some common concepts between them. So I decided to share my findings with a talk in both local meetups and international conferences (If you are curious there is a talk section in the website). From this talk, I’ve extracted a series of articles and here we are! ...

Welcome to the fourth and last part of this article series about React Native and Flutter. In the first episode, we have introduced the two frameworks with some history and with a comparison between the languages that they use. In the second episode, we have talked about User Interfaces and how to build them. In the third episode, we went deeper under the hood to understand how things work. And now it’s time to wrap things up by trying to understand how to choose the right framework for you. ...

Welcome to the third part of this article series about React Native and Flutter. In the latest episode, we have talked about User Interfaces and how to build them in the two frameworks. In this article, we’ll go deeper under the hoods to understand how things work. But I will not go deeper with lot’s of details and implementation things, because I want to make you understand how the thing works at a high level. If you are interested to go deeper, I will leave across the article some links for further information. ...

Welcome to the second part of this comparison about React Native and Flutter. In the first episode, we have introduced the two frameworks with some history and with a comparison between the languages that these two frameworks use. If you have lost the first episode, I suggest you read it before moving on. Flutter or React Native, a cross-platform dilemma - Introduction - (Part 1) In this article, I will explain how to build user interfaces in React Native and Flutter. Disclaimer: This article will not cover all the deep aspects of the two frameworks, but I want to give you an overview to better understand the differences. For much deeper details, I suggest you look at the official documentation (React Native - Flutter) ...

These days you have certainly heard about cross-platform mobile development, in particular about the “senior” React Native and the “freshman” Flutter. Today, I want to start a series of articles to understand the two frameworks. In particular, I want to describe their differences, their weaknesses, their strength… so, all you need to know to help your choice. In this article, I want to introduce the two frameworks with a historical overview and an analysis of the languages that they use. Next, in the following articles, I will move the focus on how to build User Interfaces with these two frameworks and how they work internally. ...

Today I want to share my setup of note-taking that I use during conferences. Unfortunately, I’m not the guy able to take the beautiful, colorful sketchnotes that you can see on Twitter. That’s because I have never been able to draw, put colors and do manual graphics stuff in an orderly manner. My notes on paper would be colorless and cryptic. Moreover, I like the idea to have in one place, all the information regarding the talk that I watched, for example, link to the slides, photo, video, etc. ...