Apr 5, 2023

Developing with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose is very user-friendly. Both frameworks offer a highly readable declarative syntax and a live preview feature that updates in real-time while coding. This live preview allows developers to easily configure various device settings, although it can be a bit cumbersome to specify multiple device factors. At Playtomic, we have created a simple utility for both platforms that allows us to run our previews on a predefined set of devices. Here’s what we did:

Aug 26, 2022

This week I had an interesting discussion around a possible data race condition due to wrong threading synchronisation when manipulating a value type (a String in this case) in a class.

May 31, 2022

Last summer we finally decided to move out of our classic MVP+UIKit/Android view architecture into a more modern one with SwiftUI/Compose as main actors for our view layer. Together with the UI framework changes, we found the need of switching to a more reactive architecture that better fits the nature of declarative UIs.

Dec 29, 2021

As part of our new release process (weekly releases) we are also changing the way we are publishing the apps for users. Since it is now automatic, it is crucial for us to have a phased released in which only a small subset of our users get the latest build, increasing daily and acting as a “failsafe” in case of an important bug makes it into production.

Mar 20, 2020

It is very common in mobile apps to need to update UI when keyboard is shown or dismissed. It might be to make some extra space in the screen, to scroll a list to a particular position or just to show some hints to the user while typing. Nevertheless, no matter what your reason is, there is no easy way to detect keyboard opening or closing in Android. Let’s explore some ideas: