Today I am going to write about something I came across recently: making some already existing code thread-safe. What does thread-safe mean? 🤓 Looking on Google we can find many similar definitions: Thread-safety or thread-safe code in Java refers to code which can safely be used or shared in concurrent or multi-threading environment and they…

Today we are going to explore how to deliver both feature and regular test builds through the Google Play Store. It is true there are many tools available for this purpose: Firebase App distribution, Visual Studio App Center, etc. but here we want to focus on the Google Play Store. …

Setting up spotless is quite easy, let’s take a look at what we did at Collect by WeTransfer to have a setup that is as much ready-to-go as possible. 🔍 What is spotless? Is a code formatter: we can define rules and it will apply them every time we execute it. It’s pretty useful…

If you go to the material.io website and check for the snackbar designs, you will see new something like this: Which is something a bit different to what we used to have before:

Recently I found myself in the situation of coping files of (potentially) any size, so I started in a simple way. The simple way means just reading the bytes of the file and writing them into a new one, so starting with the file to copy we could simply do…

Before Android 10 In the past in order to save content, let’s say an image, on a device from our app and make it publicly available to all the apps installed on that device we could just do:

We always struggled a bit in finding a nice way of automatically generating release notes for our Android project: we first started writing them manually, then using the first commit message of every PR, but it wasn’t really working. Finally, I found a way to use PR titles, which are…

I ran into this issue recently, and I found very little documentation (most of which was out of date) so I decided to write a pretty simple step by step tutorial. First of all, let’s start with a small introduction on what is an Instrumented test. Quoting Google official docs: …