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How We Leveraged MetricKit to Gauge Our New Releases
How We Leveraged MetricKit to Gauge Our New Releases
Delivering the best possible app experience to users has always been of the utmost importance at Life360. Ironically, it can be rather…
Location Simulation Testing
Location Simulation Testing
The goal is to test the US-specific features at offshore locations
Counting threads — An Rx guide
Counting threads — An Rx guide
In early 2020, several reports came in about an odd bug where users would launch the app and be presented with a blank or empty UI.
How we reduced the Life360 Android App Size
How we reduced the Life360 Android App Size
Like any good tech article let’s start with a small story… For the last few years, we have put in a lot of work into the Life360 app, with…
Understanding Battery Drain — Android
Understanding Battery Drain — Android
Many of us have been in this situation: Phone is charged to 100% in the morning, and by lunchtime, it is close to 30%. Now we’re upset and…
Monitoring mobile battery impact with Project Falx
Monitoring mobile battery impact with Project Falx
Our mission at Life360 is to build the must have Family Membership that helps protect and connect everyone in the family. Today, we do that…
Life360 Software Design Awards
Life360 Software Design Awards
Leslie Lamport, the famed computer scientist who did seminal work in distributed computing, once said that thinking doesn’t guarantee that…
A Different Kind of Burndown Chart
A Different Kind of Burndown Chart
On the Life360 Infrastructure Engineering team, we manage critical system support using a standard multi-tiered on-call schedule…
Life360 Mobile Interview Process
Life360 Mobile Interview Process
At Life360, our mission is to build technology to give families peace of mind. The mobile team is playing a crucial role in this mission…
Beta testing Google’s new Activity Transition API
Beta testing Google’s new Activity Transition API
Here at Life360 we heavily rely on a device’s location, as well as the context of what they are doing at that location. Knowing what the…
Save the Drama — For Project LLAMA
Save the Drama — For Project LLAMA
At Life360, we are working to bring peace of mind to families. One way we do that is using sensors and location. We let people be more…
Happy Pi Day From Life360!
Happy Pi Day From Life360!
Any excuse for pie is a good excuse. Pi Day, of course, is a great excuse!
Development Clients
Development Clients
When I started my career, it was easy to test a new endpoint: you pointed your browser at the URL for that specific page in the app. Then…
Life360 Profiles — Alejandra Aranibar
Life360 Profiles — Alejandra Aranibar
Hello, my name is Amol and I lead the engineering team at Life360. Welcome to the second in a series of posts that puts the spotlight on…
Train Woes — or Why I Commute Hours Every Day for Life360
Train Woes — or Why I Commute Hours Every Day for Life360
I am insane.
