An Android Developer’s Encounter with Quasar

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Hello everyone! :) I’ve been developing native Android applications for a full 8 years. In the first 2 years of my career, I developed using Java, and afterwards, I switched to Kotlin.

The App of My Life

In 2021, I worked on a transformation project with ING Turkey where we wrote a banking mobile application from scratch. During this phase, we utilized the newest technologies in Android available at that time:

• Hilt for Dependency Injection,
• A robust MVVM with Stateflow and Two-way binding,
• Clean Architecture divided into modules based on banking areas (accounts, money transfers, cards…) ensuring clean code,
• A single activity with multiple fragments structure for better performance and easier navigation,
• A meticulous code review process that wouldn’t pass PR without Mockito tests…

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The project, which started with 3–4 Android developers, found its place in the app stores (Google Play Store) in 2023 with a well-trained, open to…