Keepsafe Engineering

What We Learned Launching Keepsafe in 12 Languages

Optimize Your Keywords

When we launched Keepsafe in the App Store in 12 languages, it was painful to research and optimize keywords for each market. Like many engineering teams, craftsmanship is in our blood! We…

An in-depth look at Kotlin’s initializers

Yesterday I had a co-worker come to me with an interesting bug in a Kotlin class he was writing. He had a read-only property with an inline initializer like this:

class MyProgressBar(context: Context) : ProgressBar(context) {…

Kotlin vs Java: Compilation speed

If you convert an app from Java to Kotlin, will it take longer to compile?

Building a Custom Overflow Menu

When I started working at KeepSafe in March 2014, my first major project was to update the UI of our Android application to follow Google’s design guidelines for Android 4.0+.