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A journey from Async Task to Kotlin Coroutines

Photo by felipe lopez on Unsplash Some weeks ago I released a new version of the RSS Parser Library and I talked about the update in a blog post. RSS Parser 2.0: bye bye Async Task, welcome Coroutines This update brought a huge change in the infrastructure of the library. SPOILER: Kotlin and coroutines. Today, in this post I want to talk about the transition process and all the decisions that I have made to develop this new version....

RSS Parser 2.0: bye bye Async Task, welcome Coroutines

Finally, I found some time to sit down and work on my library RSS Parser. Before starting to describe all the cool stuff that I’ve introduced with this update, I want to thank you all for the support. In fact this year, the library exceeded 100 stars on Github, that seems a little goal but it means a lot to me. I wrote this library back in 2016 and now in 2018, the code was “ugly” compared to all the coolest stuff provided by Kotlin....

New update for RSS Parser: featured image

Today I’ve released a new version of the Android library RSS-Parser This library allows you to easily download an (or multiple) RSS Feed in order to display it in your application. If you don’t know RSS-Parser, you can give a look to the blog post dedicated to it. In that post I’ll give also some tip about the library usage. Thanks to the issues and the suggestions provided by the community, I’ve improved the parsing of the feature image of the article....

How to install Wordpress on Arch Linux

Every time I’ve tried to install Wordpress on Arch Linux it was a tragedy. Sometimes a configuration was missing, sometimes stuff not well known was broken and I never found an updated and complete guide. So here you are! In all the following commands I’ve omitted “sudo”. Please use it when it is necessary. Before starting make you sure that all the packages are updated. pacman -Syu Install Apache First of all, you need to install and configure Apache, the web server....

New update for RSS Parser: article categories

Today I’ve released a new version of the Android library RSS-Parser This library allows you to easily download an (or multiple) RSS Feed in order to display it in your application. If you don’t know RSS-Parser, you can give a look to the blog post dedicated to it. In that post I’ll give also some tip about the library usage. Starting from today you can get also the categories of the article, like shown in the screen below....

How to easily handle RSS Feeds on Android with RSS Parser

Two month ago I have talked about YoutubeParser, an Android Library that I developed. Today I want to talk about RSS-Parser, another library that I wrote. This library allows you to easily download an (or multiple) RSS Feed in order to display it in your application. For every article it is possible to download the following information: Title Author Description Content Main Image Link Publication Date Here you can find an example of feed....

New big update for Youtube Parser: video stats and much more

Finally I’ve released a new big update for YoutubeParser. For people who don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry now I’m going to explain all. YoutubeParser is the first Android library that I ever wrote. With this library it is possible to get information of videos from Youtube channels. These information are: Title Link Thumbnail, with three different image size. After a year I’ve released this new big update, named 2....

How to deal with backup & restore on Android (Slide & Video)

I know, I’m very very late. On 17th December 2016 I’ve attended my first talk as speaker (GDG Venezia Tech Talks 17/12/16). Despite the firsts scared thoughts this was an amazing experience! In fact I’ve replicated that, but I’ll talk about it with a future post (that won’t be published the next year - I promise :) ). The topic of the talk was a hot one: backup and restore on Android Application....

Hello World!

Hello World! Finally I decided to create my personal website. You will find blog post, tutorial and much more. The main topics will be Android, Java, Python and all the stuff that will capture my attention. If you wanna know more about me and my projects you can give a look to the categories above!