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:

Jun 19, 2019

A few weeks ago we posted a question in our Playtomic dev blog and our developer network asking for chat solutions. Comments were broad, and we finally opted for a combination of Firebase + MessageKit/ChatKit. But let me make a quick recap of the different solutions available for each of the components (backend + apps):