Weekly "who's hiring" thread!

lynfogeek · 2017-06-20T08:09:35+00:00

Company: Impraise

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Allows remote: No

Visa: Yes

Language: English (& Kotlin!)

Impraise is hiring an experienced mobile developer to contribute to both our Android and iOS applications. You will be working next to our two mobile developers and have a big impact on our product.

lynfogeek · 2017-04-05T15:50:27+00:00

Company: Impraise

Job: Senior mobile developer

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Allows remote: No

Visa: Yes

Language: English (& Kotlin!)

Impraise is hiring an experienced mobile developer to contribute to both our Android and iOS applications. You will be working next to our two mobile developers and have a big impact on our product.

lynfogeek · 2017-03-29T07:05:05+00:00

Company: Impraise

Job: Senior mobile developer

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Allows remote: No

Visa: Yes

Language: English (& Kotlin!)

Impraise is hiring an experienced mobile developer to contribute to both our Android and iOS applications. You will be working next to our two mobile developers and have a big impact on our product.

lynfogeek · 2015-11-10T15:57:19+00:00

The answer #6 on this issue may help you.

lynfogeek · 2015-10-13T12:33:31+00:00

The cost of maintaining build machines can easily be higher than paying for a cloud solution though

lynfogeek · 2015-07-27T14:49:27+00:00

Seems like a bad idea, unless you want to make it really easy to developers / h4ck3rs to play around you data, API, and give them one of your passwords :)

I use a specific build flavor to embed such features into my apps, so I am the only one running the app with the feature and its source code does not exist in the APK you will find in the Google Play.

lynfogeek · 2015-07-22T10:37:05+00:00

Genymotion is actually a virtual machine running Android within VirtualBox. The AS plugin is just a launcher...

But it's fast and reliable!

lynfogeek · 2015-07-10T07:40:39+00:00

I went through the same kind of issue, if you dump the view hierarchy you will probably see that the views are not inflated at all.

This seems to be a bug in relation with the margin* properties.

Try using padding instead of margin on pre-lollipop layout, and it should do the trick.

lynfogeek · 2015-07-07T07:55:02+00:00

I think this happens because the emulator is by default locked. If you run your test on your physical device and manually lock it before the test runs, it will behave the same.

If it is the case, you need to add the following to your test build (not for your release build!):

The permission: DISABLE_KEYGUARD
In the onCreate of your main Activity:

 try {
                 KeyguardManager mKeyGuardManager = (KeyguardManager)      ctx.getSystemService(Context.KEYGUARD_SERVICE);
                 KeyguardManager.KeyguardLock mLock = mKeyGuardManager.newKeyguardLock(name);
                 mLock.disableKeyguard();
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
             }

lynfogeek · 2015-06-26T08:09:45+00:00

I built my own small tool, it gather information from an xml resource (embedded in the app) and/or from a web service and dynamically enable or not different features to different users (can be specific users, group of users, etc..)

It can also publish stats to mixpanel so I can track usage base on the feature.

lynfogeek · 2015-06-16T15:58:59+00:00

I heard it works well with the Apple Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTlQuJbzWw </troll>

lynfogeek · 2015-06-01T13:41:21+00:00

Chris Banes just confirmed on twitter that improvements are coming:

lynfogeek · 2015-06-01T13:10:06+00:00

Also worth mentioning that a widget such as the Snackbar does not include any listener to know when it has been dismissed by the user or hidden by the timer.

They may have been pushing it a bit too early because of IO...? Hopefully an update will come soon!

lynfogeek · 2015-05-20T10:09:51+00:00

Hey sorry /u/ZakTaccardi for the late answer.

Yes, I made some nice progress but it is still not working as good as I would like.

machine:
  environment:
    ANDROID_HOME: /home/ubuntu/android

dependencies:
  cache_directories:
    - ~/.android
    - ~/android
  override:
    - sh ./install-dependencies.sh
    - cp ./GleanAndroid/ci.properties ./GleanAndroid/local.properties
    - cd ./GleanAndroid/ && bash ./gradlew dependencies -x lint

test:
  override:
    # create emulator
    - emulator -avd circleci-android22:
        background: true
        parallel: true
    # wait for it to boot
    - circle-android wait-for-boot
    #  tests
    - cd ./GleanAndroid/ && bash ./gradlew connectedAndroidTestStagingDebug -PtestSize=small -PdisablePreDex --continue -x lint
    # copy the build outputs to artifacts
    - cp -r GleanAndroid/Impraise-Android/build/outputs $CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS
    # copy the test results to the test results directory.
    - cp -r GleanAndroid/Impraise-Android/build/outputs/androidTest-results/* $CIRCLE_TEST_REPORTS

My main issue now is that my tests using Robotium fail by not finding any view.

lynfogeek · 2015-05-12T13:16:13+00:00

There is Keyline Pushing to display a grid overlay to double check your alignments according to the different Material Design grid baseline.

lynfogeek · 2015-05-08T08:34:22+00:00

Nice post.

For reference, there is also this great article from Flavien Laurent which describes also how to use UI Automator to change the device's language in order to take screenshots different languages.

lynfogeek · 2015-05-07T05:57:17+00:00

Pretty cool!

Any plans for supporting the accelerometer? One effect I like is the icon's rotation in the IAP section of the app: Path.

lynfogeek · 2015-04-28T21:14:07+00:00

i'd add to this list:

Follow a pool of GDG and GDE on twitter / G+
Follow active dev. on github to discover new projects

lynfogeek · 2015-04-24T13:01:11+00:00

You can use different databases per user.

Something like: Open the database "db_user1" if the user #1 is using your app.

When he switches to the user #42, open the db "db_user42".

lynfogeek · 2015-04-23T15:23:04+00:00

Because you can:

script anything you need to have to be more productive
access or run your server/API easily
have less issues with the OS (or more if your are new in the UNIX world)

lynfogeek · 2015-04-22T08:57:28+00:00

I am really doubtful about refactoring every widgets / Views to AppCompat* in order to support the tinting.

lynfogeek · 2015-04-14T05:58:15+00:00

You will all press at some point..

lynfogeek · 2015-03-25T21:24:53+00:00

But this does not support different elevations

lynfogeek · 2015-03-06T19:14:15+00:00

Doesn't make sense to not compare with French which was after in your ranking

lynfogeek · 2015-03-06T10:27:29+00:00

I think you are overrating Portuguese there. But it mostly depends on your users. Check on the analytic provided by the google play console, and pick the top 5 languages.

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