How the GoPay team solved an issue which caused thousands of crashes on our Android app. — This story has 5 main characters: Gson, Dexguard, SharedPreferences, a misconfigured model, and thousands of crashes on our Android app. A few of our readers know exactly where this is going. …

An analysis of updating outer screens on Android when an action is performed in an internal flow. — Peer-to-peer money transactions through mobile apps have become increasingly convenient and effortless. It’s an ever-changing landscape, with a lot of potential to be interactive. In November 2020, we launched GoPay Social. It allows our users to have a social interaction (called ‘moments’) attached to every peer-to-peer money transaction. Users can…

Pepperfry’s Android app is launched 1.3L+ times a day by our happy customers. This number is growing daily. A quick and smooth launch makes sure our users can quickly perform the action they intend to perform. A slow or delayed launch can lead to frustration for our users and a…

The title of this post may trigger a debate about Rx and coroutines being completely different solutions and hence incomparable. That is completely true: Rx works with asynchronous streams of data and coroutines are (in my opinion) asynchronous callback-driven functions. …

This is the third and final part of our series on Kotlin migration undertaken for the Android app at Pepperfry. This migration included the move from Java to Kotlin along with the move from MVP to MVVM architecture. In the first part, we discussed the motivation behind our migration: Kotlin Migration @ Pepperfry: Part One — Motivation This is the first part of a 3 part series on Kotlin migration undertaken for the Android app at Pepperfry. This…medium.com

This is the second part of a 3 part series on Kotlin migration undertaken for the Android app at Pepperfry. This migration included the move from Java to Kotlin along with the move from MVP to MVVM architecture. In the first part, we discussed the motivation behind our migration: Kotlin Migration @ Pepperfry: Part One — Motivation This is the first part of a 3 part series on Kotlin migration undertaken for the Android app at Pepperfry. This…medium.com

This is the first part of a 3 part series on Kotlin migration undertaken for the Android app at Pepperfry. This migration included the move from Java to Kotlin along with the move from MVP to MVVM architecture. In this part we will be discussing the motivations behind our migration…

The ListAdapter extension first made its appearance in the v27.1.0 version of the Support Library and now resides in the androidx.recyclerview.widget package post the AndroidX migration. ListAdapter is a wrapper around the AyncListDiffer helper. …

As programmers, we do a lot more everyday besides writing amazing code. Yes, coding is what the majority of us love to do the most and what people associate us with the most. But there are various other skills involved in being a great programmer. Below are some of these…