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The journey we took to restructure our mobile apps towards a modular architecture. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview Modular mobile architectures have been a hot topic over the past 2 years, counting a plethora of articles and conference talks. Almost every big company promoted and discussed modularization publicly as a way […]
The Android Authority Podcast – discussing topics in Android every week. The Android Authority Podcast brings you all the top stories and features based on your favorite mobile operating system: Android. We help make Android more accessible to all, and dive deeper into the details when we can, there’s something in here for everyone. […]
Changing line heights in Android using LineHeightSpan has this ugly side-effect where the cursor ends up being very tall, extending till the full line height instead of just the text height. I’ve decided to go to extreme lengths to fix this over the next few days. For science. pic.twitter.com/2tWLvDq1rz — Saket Narayan (@Saketme) November 24, […]
A11yUITests is an extension to XCTestCase that adds tests for common accessibility issues that can be run as part of an XCUITest suite. I’ve written a detailed discussion of the tests available if you’re interested in changing/implementing these tests yourself. Alternatively, follow this quick start guide. Getting Started Adding A11yUITests I’m assuming you’re already familiar […]
For a while now I’ve been looking at possibilities for automated accessibility testing on iOS. Unfortunately, I’ve not found any option so far that I’m happy with. I am a big fan of Apple’s XCUI Test framework. Although it has its limitations, I believe there’s scope for creating valid accessibility tests using this framework. Over […]
Custom getters and setters for fields in a class is not a new idea. We have been using them since our early days in programming. Kotlin, however, takes that concept to a more elegant level by allowing us to define getters and setters at the declaration site of our properties. The primary advantage of this […]
The Android Authority Podcast – discussing topics in Android every week. The Android Authority Podcast brings you all the top stories and features based on your favorite mobile operating system: Android. We help make Android more accessible to all, and dive deeper into the details when we can, there’s something in here for everyone. […]
We recently shipped Data Saver Mode, a new feature on Instagram for Android that helps the app consume less mobile data. In this post, we’ll go over why we decided to work on this feature, our approach in developing it, the engineering implementation, and how people were impacted by it. The motivation behind building Data […]
We recently shipped Data Saver Mode, a new feature on Instagram for Android that helps the app consume less mobile data. In this post, we’ll go over why we decided to work on this feature, our approach in developing it, the engineering implementation, and how people were impacted by it. The motivation behind building Data […]
Author: Perry Romanowski Published: December 10, 2019 On today’s episode we just felt like ranting! Today we cover 3 beauty science topics that have affected the beauty world. Here you’ll get the cosmetic chemist and formulator take on the following topics: Hair dye and a link to cancer Waterless formulas and whether they are superior […]