After being part of countless tech interviews, on both sides of the aisle, here's a few things that my much younger, stupider self, would probably refuse to listen to. #1. It's all in the game You might not believe it, but most interviewers out there really
This post was originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway blog Just Eat Takeaway (JET) is a global food delivery network handling millions of active users across numerous markets. Operating at this scale requires flexibility on the client side to avoid the natural bottleneck of Play Store rollouts. To get
Windows
It took more than a decade, but I finally got tired of running the same five ADB commands. Clear app data, force stop, restart the app, you know the ones. You also know the workflow: open terminal, hit ↑ seventeen times, squint, hit ↑ three more times, run it, forget the package
KMP
Not sure when it happened, but at some point I contracted this strange illness that compels someone to tinker with their OS on their spare time. The latest symptom: a floating clock widget written in Powershell, that is visible at all times. (I hide my taskbar cause I pretend I&
Scrolling the fever dream called Twitter, I came across this sentence: "Clavicular ran into a frat leader at ASU and got brutally frame mogged by him" (frame mogged: physically dominated by someone with a superior physique, apparently) None of those words are in the bible. I could have
Webdev
I needed some type of like/clap counter for my blog. But then again, likes are lame. What I really needed was a beer 🍺 counter. The problem is, I'm allergic to anything that resembles real backend work on a silly weekend project. So I used json file as
I've always wanted one of these pages. You know the type — "things I find interesting", "reading list" yada yada. Basically a dumping ground for interesting stuff I come across on the day-to-day. So, I made a telegram bot that does it for
new posts when I'm not hungover
*not really
This post was originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway blog Android 16 introduced a new notification template specifically designed to help users seamlessly track user-initiated start-to-end journeys. These are known as progress-centric notifications, which offer upgraded visibility on system surfaces and top ranking in the
As part of my daily attempt to pay the bills, I had to implement some pull-to-refresh action. For the uninitiated, the pull-to-refresh component allows users to drag downwards at the beginning of an app’s content to refresh some data. Kind of like this: Enhance While
This post was originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway blog For some time now, the JET Android Consumer App has been heavily relying on detekt for static code analysis. The default rules detekt comes with are, by nature, generic enough to serve most projects. But there are times when
Featured in Android Weekly Issue #624 Everyone is using Hilt/Koin or some other fancy DI framework that just works™. In this house, we still use plain Dagger2. It’s… not going great. Consider the predicament of a composable that can only work with certain parameters: @Composable fun FirstScreen( navigate:
A practical guide to edge-to-edge layouts in Compose: handling Window Insets, transparent status/navigation bars, and icon tints — recreating YouTube's Ambient Mode effect.
Sometimes, I get the impression one needs 42 hours of research and a PhD dissertation to figure out how to send a one-time event from the ViewModel layer to the UI safely these days. Memes aside, it feels like there is no “true” consensus on how to do such
Compose is fun. I do get the feeling that there are quite a few “gotchas” when working with it, though. Here are a few questions that kept bugging me: * Are all functions equal in the eyes of the compiler? * Are suspend functions stable/immutable? * Do recomposition scopes even matter much?
Dagger-Hilt is fine and all. Unfortunately, it arrived a bit too late in the android dev lifecycle. If I had to guess, most projects out there are still stuck using plain Dagger2. The official google android docs use Hilt to showcase Jetpack Compose code. What if you are stuck
These are not the droids you are looking for
On a long enough timeline, every test is a flaky test
Wot I think