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How to introduce yourself to a new team
Monday, March 15, 2021 in People
Photo by krakenimages on Unsplash When you join a new team, you usually want to show that you’re a valuable person to work with. You probably want to get settled in the team quickly, show what you’re made of, make new acquaintances and get something meaningful to do as soon as possible.
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No sleeping during testing RxJava app!
Monday, November 26, 2018 in Android
Image from unsplash During development of Android tests you’ve probably used
Thread.sleep(). This seems reasonable solution at the first place, but after a while you get to a very wired issues. -
Solve your problems with time during Android Integration test
Tuesday, November 06, 2018 in Android
Image from unsplash When you develop a real-life app with integrations tests you probably faced a problem that time is moving :) It doesn’t matter if you develop an alarm clock or a feed app that is less related to time, I’m almost 100% sure that app is more or less time-related.
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My Story@Appunite
Monday, June 11, 2018 in People
Image from European Southern Observatory It was some time ago (2011), a year after I joined AppUnite as the first employee. At the time, I’ve just developed third iOS app (yes, this is no typo — iOS app :) ).
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Using schedulers while testing your code
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in Android
Image from unsplash While testing RxJava code it’s very important to choose a correct Scheduler class so your tests are reliable and fast. I’d like to present a few use cases.
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Errors... oh... those errors - coding
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in Android
Image from Unsplash Some time ago, I wrote an article about how important it is to handle errors in a nice way. In the article “Errors… oh… those errors”, I made a promise that there would be a continuation with coding examples. This is it.
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How to find StackOverflowError's
Wednesday, February 07, 2018 in Android
Image from unsplash Sometimes in your crash reporting tool you see StackOverflowErrors breaks down the app on some device models. Some of them don’t occur on your device or the issues come about in unexpected non-reproducible circumstances. I’ll give you some tips that allow finding the errors more easily.
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Errors... oh... those errors
Monday, February 05, 2018 in Engineering
Image from unsplash In my opinion, good error handling is one of the most important features of an application. But most people in development process ignore them.
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A nice reader/writer pattern
Monday, January 15, 2018 in Android
Photo by Patrick Lindenberg on Unsplash During the development of a chat app, I had to implement some kind of lock logic. Usually, locking/unlocking code is hard to follow. If complex business logic uses complicated locking, your code becomes unreadable and unmaintainable. However, there is a pattern that can help you writing readable locking/unlocking code.
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Kotlin and RxJava with extension functions
Sunday, January 07, 2018 in Android
Image from unsplash This is an introduction to some patterns that can be helpful during an implementation of Android applications that operate on any structured data, especially downloaded from APIs.