How and where to define your user-facing strings. — Messages.properties You’ve probably already read about the messages.properties file. It allows you to define any strings you wish to present to an end-user. messages.properties: To retrieve one of these strings in code you first need to get a MessageSource. This is provided via spring dependency injection. Constructor injection: @Service //…

How to use JAXWS to generate HTTP client code using the Gradle Kotlin DSL. — WSDL WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML format. It describes network services, their endpoints and the corresponding request and response formats. WSDL is commonly used in conjunction with a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) API. Soap can be thought of as a way of structuring your API. …

Educating Android users can be subtle by using motion — Material Design The material design system will be familiar to most, as one of the most widely used design systems. It’s a visual language that represents good design principles whilst allowing expressive branding. Foundationally, it is based on the physics of the world. This makes it natural and familiar to users. …

How to write tests within Kotlin Multiplatform — Testing Code quality is very important, and testing is a huge part of code quality. You want to ensure the code you write behaves as expected. It also needs to work under a variety of conditions. I use the Given When Then approach to testing across all our Small, Medium and…

How should you structure your multiplatform project? — Kotlin Multiplatform Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a way of writing cross-platform code in Kotlin. It is not about compiling all code for all platforms, and it doesn’t limit you to a subset of common APIs. KMP provides mechanisms for writing platform-specific implementations for a common API. Android/iOS One of the common use-cases, and…