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Google Play Apps & Games

·Jan 21, 2021

Tips for building a quality app with Firebase

Deliveroo provides insights into delivering quality apps experiences — part of the Apps, Games, & Insights podcast — This article is based on Google’s Apps, Games, & Insights podcast episode featuring Maria Neumayer, Staff Software Engineer at Deliveroo alongside Shobhit Chugh, Product Manager at Firebase. Over the last few years, users’ expectations of apps have increased. First impressions count. An app that crashes, hangs, or drains battery life…

Featured

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Tips for building a quality app with Firebase
Tips for building a quality app with Firebase
Featured

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A problem like Maria

·May 16, 2019

A problem like destructuring declarations

I’m a huge fan of Kotlin — it’s powerful, concise and makes it fun to write code. But even our biggest heroes aren’t perfect and there’s one thing I don’t like about Kotlin: destructuring declarations. Let’s see why, and what they do! What are destructuring declarations? Destructuring declarations are a convenient way of destructuring…

Kotlin

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A problem like destructuring declarations
A problem like destructuring declarations
Kotlin

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A problem like Maria

·Nov 27, 2018

Understanding Android Matrix transformations

Many years ago in school I was learning about matrices. I don’t remember much of it, but what I do remember was thinking, “but… what do you actually do with that knowledge?” Fast forward a few years and I started working as an Android Developer and had to work with…

Android

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Understanding Android Matrix transformations
Understanding Android Matrix transformations
Android

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A problem like Maria

·May 24, 2018

A problem like Navigation — Part 2

Last week I wrote about my initial experience using the new Navigation Architecture Component. But after my first few days of working with it I still had many questions. How do I pass data back to the origin? How does conditional navigation actually work in practice? How can I start…

Android

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Android

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A problem like Maria

·May 13, 2018

A problem like Navigation — Part 1

Navigation on Android can get quite complicated — from passing data to handling the back stack there’s many things to watch out for. There’s many solutions out there trying to solve that problem — often working with a single Activity, but none of them satisfied me so far. …

Android

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Android

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A problem like Maria

·May 6, 2018

Bringing more colour to Android Studio

Sometimes coding can be a bit frustrating — why is this build taking so long? Why is it crashing? What is happening? While I won’t answer those questions right now, there’s a few tips that can make it more bearable and easier to deal with — with colour. First up…

Android

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Bringing more colour to Android Studio
Bringing more colour to Android Studio
Android

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A problem like Maria

·Feb 26, 2018

A life without ifs

No more ifs? That sounds great! Well with Kotlin that is possible. Kind of. Kotlin has multiple language features that can replace ifs in many cases. But are they always a good idea? Let’s find out. Let’s take a look at an if statement you probably wrote in the past…

Android

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Android

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Deliveroo Engineering

·Jan 15, 2018

Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise

At the start of the year Apple announced their acquisition of Buddybuild, along with the news that Android support would end by March. This meant we had to find an alternative quickly, and Bitrise was our eventual choice. Here’s why, and how we switched. We use CI for various things: …

Android

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Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise
Migrating from Buddybuild to Bitrise
Android

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Deliveroo Engineering

·Dec 6, 2017

How to introduce Kotlin in your codebase

Kotlin was the big topic of the year in the Android community. Many of us are talking about it or have started using it. In this blog post I will share a few tips and tricks we’ve learned while converting our application to Kotlin. For us at Deliveroo the journey…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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A problem like Maria

·Oct 28, 2017

A problem like public speaking

Public speaking is a scary experience. But it’s also a great experience. With Droidcon UK 2017 I’ve done my second talk and I’d like to talk a bit about the experience and give some tips for public speaking. …

Public Speaking

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Public Speaking

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Maria Neumayer

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European living in London. Principal Engineer at @SkyscannerEng. Tweeting at @marianeum.

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