184: Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps?
In this episode, we touch on a note so widely discussed topic: should Android application today use a BaseActivity? Doesn't that wreak of inheritance over composition? What would uncle Joshua say about this ineffective approach? What are alternative options? do we have any?
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Show Notes
In this episode, Kaushik tries to talk through this question.
Thanks to friends of the show Jeroen, Yigit and a bunch of others who ran through some ideas on this one.
- Application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks
- Android X Lifecycle Component
- Ep 16: Favor composition over inheritance
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