An article on billion-dollar mistakes, the ones that are assumed and the ones that stay un-spoken and on the importance of not misleading new devel...
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IMHO the original sin is that this Context is a God object: you need it for almost everything and it knows too much. That’s the first anti-pattern
Android SDK should have had a good Dependency Injection framework from the beginning.
To clarify, I was not claiming that this was the only billion-dollar mistake in Android, just the one I wanted to zoom into :)
so true.
Android works but it's trash
Great, now I just want a burrito. Thanks, a lot!
Really loved your text, it made me laugh and cry at the same time. Thanks for pointing out, that admitting to be on the wrong path is crucial for saving kitten's lives.
Great article! You have a little typo in the "Fragment !is Context 🤔" paragraph: "you realize that it does not extends Context." should probably use "extend" not "extends".
Fixed, thanks!