Android App Development

CI/CD pipelines

How to setup Github Actions for Android projects

Complete guide to get…

One hackathon a sprint

We ran an experiment at upday which I’d like to share with you because it was highly productive and even better — a lot…

Android N’s App Shortcuts

Android N introduced many new powerful features out of which I would like to talk about a simple, yet very useful…

Android Architecture Patterns Part 3: Model-View-ViewModel

After four different designs in the first six months of the development of the upday app, we learned one important lesson: we need an architecture pattern that allows fast reaction to design changes! The solution we chose in the…

Android Architecture Patterns Part 1: Model-View-Controller

A year ago, when the majority of the current Android team started working at upday, the application was far from being the robust, stable app that we wanted it to be. We tried to understand why our code was in such bad shape…