We use them to manage users’ log-in sessions, impose time-outs, display dates when content was posted and show the most recent publications to users. This is crucial to a variety of apps, from digital diaries to diet and exercise planners, and onto travel-booking resources. As our user bases become more geographically diverse, so time management gets even more important.
Kotlin has gradually replaced Java as the lingua franca of Android programming. It’s a more concise language than Java, meaning your code works harder and you can build leaner applications. And Kotlin Collections are fundamental. These collections play a fundamental role in our work as programmers by simplifying the organization and management of data. Whether it’s a list, set, map or other data structure, they allow us to categorize and store data logically.
Delivery Hero’s, Mike Gerasymenko’s (Staff iOS Engineer), took a quick 15-minute session at this year’s Mobile DevOps Summit 2023 on ‘Making your app modular’. Let's dive in to see why it was one of the most-watched sessions of the two-day Summit.
Bitrise on AWS is a new integration that brings together the industry-leading Mobile DevOps capabilities of Bitrise with the flexibility and control of your AWS build infrastructure.
In the 21st century, practically all technological innovation on the planet has been channeled into the mobile phone. The first generation of mobile phones simply allowed you to make calls, store numbers and play rudimentary games (some of which, like Snake, didn’t even have an end sequence because the designers didn’t think anyone would complete them). Today mobile phones are computers in our pocket, allowing us to shop, date, stream videos, buy food, order cabs and find our way around.
Mobile banking has become integral to our daily lives, offering unparalleled convenience and accessibility. However, as the usage of mobile banking apps continues to grow, so do the threats from cybercriminals. In a world where personal and financial data is at risk, mobile banking apps must prioritize security. In August 2021, US-based T-Mobile experienced a cyberattack where a 21-year-old stole data from approximately 50 million current customers and potential prospects.
“It’s no use! I can’t run an end to end test with Flutter’s integration tests”, exclaimed one of our customers about 9 months ago. I asked what the problem was and they explained that they were using Google Authentication for logging in and used the google_sign_in package for and it wasn’t possible use Flutter’s integration tests to interact with the login screens.
The software industry has evolved more quickly in 10 years than most industries do in 1,000, yet we continue to grapple with the basic elements of date and time. Practically all our apps rely on time in some way, and when our users are spread all over the world it can be fiendishly difficult to get the timestamps right. Kotlin language, the dominant Android programming language, provides native classes (or blueprints) to help us deal with date and time.
Android has surged past iOS to dominate the world’s smartphone market, but its ecosystem is growing at an exponential rate. There were more than 24,000 different Android devices at the last count, which places major strains on devs. To learn Android development, you have to learn how to optimize for hundreds of different devices. So you need a clear learning plan that can be applied to the entire Android ecosystem.
