At TravelPerk, we recently migrated our mobile apps CI infrastructure from a mobile-specific provider to CircleCI. We already use CircleCI across the entire organization, so this change made sense for us because we wanted to reduce costs, consolidate our CI infrastructure so we share our internal CI tooling everywhere, be…

At the psychiatrist’s small clinic, I sit and wait for my turn. The uncomfortable chair, the loud action movie playing on the TV, and the sound of crying babies coming from the clinic next door all make me more anxious. I close my eyes and try to regulate my breathing…

More often that not, projects end up in one of these situations: Many random *.gradle(.kts) scripts that not everyone understands. Very complicated subprojects and allprojects blocks. A buildSrc directory that houses much of the build logic. The first two can cause a lot of trouble down the line because you…

Oddly, one of the most difficult things about animations on Android is actually choosing which API to use. Android offers such a wide range of them that most people just end up with analysis-paralysis. At Android Dev Summit ’18, Doris Liu, Nick Butcher, John Hofrad and Nicolas Roard gave a…

I’ve always wanted to make a library and “contribute to open-source”, but never really had anything of considerable value to offer, until I needed to publish a library myself, so here’s a guide on how to make and publish one! I’m currently working on a project where I had to…