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I’ve recently released new version of ReactiveNetwork library for Android. Here are the fresh release notes for version 0.2.0: added possibility to observe WiFi signal level with observeWifiSignalLevel(context, numLevels) and observeWifiSignalLevel(context) method created WifiSignalLevel enum added internet check to parameters of getConnectivityStatus(context, checkInternet) method made getConnectivityStatus(context, checkInternet) method public changed String variable status in ConnectivityStatus enum to description and made it public changed output of the toString() method in ConnectivityStatus to keep consistency with another enum made ReactiveNetwork class non-final bumped Kotlin version in sample app to 1....

I’ve recently released version 1.4.0 of Kirai library. Kirai means phrase in Swahili language. It’s string formatting library written in Java. It originally started as an Android library, but it evolved to pure Java library. It’s first possibilities were basic string formatting and text formatting for Android TextViews. Now, it allows to format strings for Java, Web, Android and even Unix Terminal! Have you ever wanted to have colorful and styled text in your mobile app, website or terminal app?...

Introduction In the last days I prepared a bunch of updates in my open-source software for Android. Most of them are bug fixes and are related to increasing robustness of the projects as well as their overall quality. I also decided to play a little with Kotlin language from JetBrains, which seems to be reasonable choice for mobile applications running on Android. Nevertheless, writing an app in Kotlin requires some additional configuration and we should remember, it’s still in beta version....

I’ve recently released ReactiveNetwork. It is an open-source Android library listening network connection state and change of the WiFi signal strength with RxJava Observables. It’s a successor of Network Events library rewritten with Reactive Programming approach. Library is compatible with RxJava 1.0.+ and RxAndroid 1.0.+ and uses them under the hood. Min Android SDK version is 9. JavaDoc can be found at: http://pwittchen.github.io/ReactiveNetwork. Repository is available at: https://github.com/pwittchen/ReactiveNetwork. This library is much simpler and easier to use than NetworkEvents....

I’ve recently released Prefser library v. 2.0.0. Prefser is a wrapper for Android SharedPreferences with object serialization and RxJava Observables. This update couldn’t be done without help of awesome open-source community and people who reported new issues and created pull requests. Thanks for that! A lot of issues related to RxJava was fixed. Moreover, now we can store and retrieve lists of objects of any type with Prefser. Examples of library usage can be found in README....