Despite the technical nature of a Software Engineering Manager’s (EM) work, it is still a leadership position focused on empowering others. During my years at Facebook Reality Labs and WhatsApp, I explored multiple strategies to manage and support teams and ensure we achieved desired results and exceeded expectations. Below, I…

After X years in software engineering and Y frameworks learned you might feel ready to explore some new horizons of your career. In this post I’m sharing my views on how engineering management is different from software engineering, and what does success look like. Almost two years ago I transferred…

Why one-on-one is important; what it gives to you and your meeting partner; how it helps to accelerate your career and ship amazing products. If you are a Tech Lead or an Engineering Manager, you’ve probably noticed that one of the biggest bottlenecks in every organization is communication. People are…

New Year — New Look We are excited to announce a fresh new look for ProAndroidDev! Our new design goal was to better match how we look to our values and the readers we serve! As always, we’re more than happy to listen to your feedback and welcome your input. …

This post will help engineers get the best results out of their work with managers, and achieve career goals in a predictable way. After many years of being an individual contributor and Tech Lead, I decided to transition to the Engineering Manager role. …

Welcome to the new issue of ProAndroidDev digest! In this issue we’re featuring unit testing, DevOps, libraries development, ViewModels, and of course Kotlin — everywhere! Evolution of unit tests in Android Ivan Shafran recalls how he began with first tests, and demonstrates how things get changed with mocking libraries, Kotlin adoption, and a Spek framework. …

Thank you for supporting and following ProAndroidDev! We’ve just reached 30K followers! 🥳 Excited to continue sharing with you the latest updates from the Mobile Engineering world. Find out some highlights from the last 2 weeks below. Hunting a bug — A True App Bundle Debugging Story Oussama Hafferssas shares his experience debugging the App Bundle while explaining what App…

Welcome to the new issue of ProAndroidDev digest! Featuring Watch Faces, Exception Handling and Modularization amongst others! This issue is written by our friend Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo. Inverting the Dependency — Independent Features in Android Applications by Damian Burke. Do you modularize by feature, by layer or something else…

Welcome to the new issue of ProAndroidDev digest! Featuring Retrofit Coroutines, Custom Views and Clean Architecture amongst others! This issue is brought to you by our friend Mario Sanoguera de Lorenzo. ProAndroidDev becomes part of the droidcon Global. Our values and trajectory stay the same, and we’ll remain free and…