Preface

This article will talk about the linting workflow my Android team and I use to ensure new code entering into our code base adheres to the standards set by the team. Our linter of choice is Ktlint, considering that our code base is written entirely on Kotlin.

There are few other articles and blog posts that uses the same approach, but I found their information to either be outdated, or incomplete. So this article is meant to aggregate my findings of those articles, with a little extra sprinkled in.

The Problem

So, a couple of years back, when I first introduced Ktlint…

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As of version 25 of the Design Support Library, the Bottom Navigation View(BNV) is a native component in the Android Framework. There is no need for me to include a foreword to explain a year old component, and this write-up is not so much a guide on how to implement it than it is a discussion (a bit of a rant as well). A discussion that involves both technical and design knowledge. So, let’s get cracking shall we?

Material Design Guidelines

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But sweet baby Jesus, post Chapter 8? A PTSD trigger to Final Hallway XIII.

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