In January 2019 (2 weeks from now) I’d be completing 4 years at Airbnb. This makes for a good milestone to look back and reflect on what I learned during that time, what went well, what didn’t go so well and some takeaways. I started at Airbnb in 2015 after…

I’ve recently taken on the challenge of porting a Go implementation of a NES emulator to Android. Thanks to the awesome work done by Michael Fogleman, understanding and navigating the Go code was fairly easy even for me, who was a complete Go newbie. …

Introducing OkReplay — record and replay OkHttp network interaction in your tests. — At Airbnb, shipping a high quality product is of utmost importance. To accomplish this goal, we use automated testing to catch bugs before they reach our users. …

I've been planning to write this article for a while, but time is really short recently, especially with yesterday's Airbnb Trips launch, where the vast majority of the screens are using React Native. It was very exciting and challenging to accomplish that. …

A couple months ago I decided to (once again) jump into the web development bandwagon, motivated by curiosity and "nerdiness". I've been neck deep on Android only for quite a while now, so it was about time for me to learn something different. Cycle.js …

Introduction Charles Proxy is a great tool that helps you debug network traffic by sniffing your requests. One super useful feature is that it allows you to also monitor SSL traffic by generating self signed certificates and acting as Man in the Middle. For iOS and Android devices, that doesnt work…

This is the second part of a series of posts. You can find the part one here. So this time we're gonna start to write the Android application code for our game. You'll need to download Android Studio in order to get started. The Android Studio IDE is based on…

TL;DR: This is a series of posts where I'll walk you through the process of how I created an Android application from scratch. Both the app and backend source codes are on Github, as well as the data. As an adult, I've never been a big video game player. I…