Saravana Thiyagaraj

I am a passionate programmer and a clean code evangelist who mainly likes to create Android apps and open source libraries. I am so lazy that I write plugins to automate most of my work. This way I get more time to work on creative projects. If you want to know more about me, check out my resume.

Swap ViewModel during testing in Android via Hilt

08 Oct 2021

I have seen a lot of Hilt examples where we hard code the actual implementation of ViewModel in the Activity or Fragment. May be, this is what you need, and you want to test your Fragments or Activities with the actual ViewModel. But if you are like me, and you have some use case where you want to inject a fake ViewModel and test your Fragments or Activities, then this blog is for you.

Generics in Kotlin

10 Sep 2021

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Publishing Android library to maven central

31 Aug 2021

All my libraries has a script to publish the artifact to bintray and from there auto release to mavenCentral. But recently, Bintray was shutdown and hence I have to publish directly to maven central repository. This is how I did it.