184: Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps?

In this episode, Kaushik tries to talk through this question.

Thanks to friends of the show Jeroen (twitter.com/molsjeroen), Yigit (twitter.com/yigitboyar?lang=en) and a bunch of others who ran through some ideas on this one.

• Application.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks (developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Ap…))

• Android X Lifecycle Component (developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architec…)

• Ep 16: Favor composition over inheritance (fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/16)

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