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KMP Speedrun with Cursor

Jun 7, 20253 min read

Cursor + React Native + Expo Speed Run

May 4, 20257 min read

Fixing a Model without Remote Config

I built an integration into Gemini rolling my own client. After a while, I got an error: I am on the free tier for Gemini, so this is not unimaginable that I would have exhausted a key somehow. So I tried a new key - no dice. Then I tried just using...

Jul 4, 20251 min read

From Idea to Published Apps with React Native, Cursor, and Firebase - Part 1

Apr 19, 20253 min read

Publishing Updates to KMP (Android and iOS) Apps

Mar 8, 20251 min read

Adding Hot Reload to a Kotlin Multiplatform App

Anybody who has built native mobile applications has experienced the flow-breaking build process - make a change, hit build, wait a minute, and see if it worked. The minute is not that bad if you are making big changes, but when you want to see if yo...

Mar 1, 20252 min read

Adding DataStore to a Kotlin Multiplatform Project

Step-by-Step Tutorial: We will take a Compose Multiplatform baseline project and add DataStore for use on Android, iOS, and Desktop.

Nov 30, 20243 min read

Add Room and then Room KMP to Android App - Part 2

In Part 1 of this post, we walked through adding Room to your Android app. Now it is time to make this a Kotlin Multiplatform app with shared business logic. Let’s get started. There are 2 primary resources for Room KMP: Room for Kotlin Multiplatform...

Sep 23, 20242 min read

Add Room and then Room KMP to Android App - Part 1

There are 2 stages to this post: getting Room running on Android, and then getting Room Multiplatform running on KMP so that the business logic can be shared across Android and iOS. Let’s get started. To add Room to Android, you can refer to https://...

Sep 22, 20243 min read

Converting an Android app to an Android + iOS app using Kotlin Multiplatform

For over a decade, I have been experimenting with ways to "write once, run anywhere" - where anywhere was really Android and iOS. The problem I always had was that this seemed to turn a complex problem of dealing with 2 platforms into a complex probl...

Jul 8, 20247 min read

Writing Vidaoke App for Video Podcast Scripts

It is painfully obvious when you are reading a script AND filming yourself - your eyes are too far from looking at the camera and they just skip about too much. I wanted to see if I could create something that would make it less obvious that I was re...

Apr 4, 20243 min read

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