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Re-invent the wheel the right way, and only if really necessary

It all starts when some android developer tries to figure out a solution to a problem he/she is having while building their “Awesome Android App”. During the process, most developers would encounter a couple of issues and in tandem, to those, they would come up with possible solutions.

Now here is a thing, if you are like me, who believes that if the problem was big enough for me to spend some time on it and there wasn’t an existing solution out there, I would abstract the whole solution in a modular manner, which eventually turns out to be an android library. Just so that whenever in future I encounter this problem again, I can reuse this solution easily.

So far, so good. So you have built the library and probably started using it completely privately or if you think someone else could make use of the same solution you release the code as an android library open source the code. I believe (..or rather that is what it looks like..) at this point everyone thinks they are done.

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