The first week of 2023 is a great time to summarize the last year. I wasn’t so active in writing articles and I will improve it this year. In this article, I want to share a couple of successes related to content sharing, the result of one of the personal experiment, and a few plans related to this blog.
Articles
In 2022, I published 6 articles and many of them were related to Jetpack Compose.
- Jetpack Compose: Preview
- Jetpack Compose: RadioButton
- Jetpack Compose: Testing animations
- Get String resources in Jetpack Compose Tests
- How to group Android tests
- 75 days to a better version of myself
The alexzh.com has more than 112k page views 🎉. (Last year, the yearly result was around 75k).
Android Development Tips
In 2022, I continued to post small tips about Android Development and Testing on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Three most popular tips:
Jetpack Compose Tip:
— Alex Zhukovich (@Alex_Zhukovich) December 28, 2022
Did you know you can define the size of a component in Jetpack Compose based on a specific aspect ration?#JetpackCompose #AndroidDev pic.twitter.com/cMqZySlAFV
Jetpack Compose Tip:
— Alex Zhukovich (@Alex_Zhukovich) December 27, 2022
Did you know you can animate the border in Jetpack Compose using the "brush" and "offset"?#JetpackCompose #AndroidDev pic.twitter.com/rT8HPHfSpk
Jetpack Compose Tip:
— Alex Zhukovich (@Alex_Zhukovich) July 29, 2022
The content can be shaped by using the "clip" modifier.#JetpackCompose #AndroidDev pic.twitter.com/StxLe4tnJI
Talks and Workshops
This year I talks and workshops only about UI testing in Android.
- Efficient UI testing @ Chicago Roboto (Slides Video)
- UI testing of Jetpack Compose apps @ TechBite (Slides, Video)
- UI testing of Jetpack Compose apps @ AppDevCon (Slides, Video)
- Full-day Workshop: UI testing of Jetpack Compose apps @ AppDevCon
- UI testing of Jetpack Compose apps @ Dutch Android User Group (Slides)
Experiment: How 75 days helped me to a better version of myself
In the second half of the year, I decided to change my life for 75 days to improve my mental and physical state. I’m happy to share that everyday rules for 75 days helped me to improve my health (I lost 12 kg), learn more different topics.
You can read more about my journey here. (I hope it will motivate at least one person).
Plans
To be honest, this year was pretty inconsistent. Sometimes I published 2 articles during a month, later I posted nothing for a few months.
In 2023, I want to achieve the following goals and deliver more high-quality content:
- publish tips about Android development and testing at least every week
- publish at least 20 articles during a year
- achieve 200k page views at the end of the year
