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A11yUITests: An XCUI Testing library for accessibility

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 […]

XCUITests for accessibility | Mobile A11y

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 […]

Android Authority Podcast: Google dropping features and fancy watches featuring The Mr. Mobile, Michael Fisher

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. […]

Instagram Data Saver Mode

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 […]

Instagram Data Saver Mode

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 […]

Low-overhead wrappers using inline classes

Previously, we discussed how Kotlin’s type aliases could make our code more readable. However, if you remember, since type aliases don’t introduce new types, they don’t provide any type-safety. This week we will be exploring Kotlin’s experimental inline classes which have benefits that type aliases provide but go further than that. A little about inline […]