Building a Pride Rainbow Easter Egg into the Over Android App ?️‍?
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
This post originally appeared here on the GoDaddy Engineering blog. The Over App is a playground for creating beautiful content for social media. As developers on the app, we are often inspired by the pictures and videos that our users make. To inspire our users a bit more, we decided to create a small easter […] The post Building a Pride Rainbow Easter Egg into the Over Android App ?️‍? appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Writing a better Tech Resume / CV
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
Your resume doesn’t need to be boring! In the past couple of years of my career I’ve been involved in the recruitment process of software engineers, which has meant reading a lot of resumes and deciding when to move forward with a candidate based on its content. I’ve seen some really great resumes and unfortunately, […] The post Writing a better Tech Resume / CV appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Start(“Your Career in Tech”); ?
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
Getting starting in the tech industry is a daunting experience. I remember being fresh out of university back in 2012 with big expectations of what the working world would be like. Navigating the industry for the past 9 years has taught me a few key ideas that I feel really helped me steer my career […] The post start(“Your Career in Tech”); ? appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Language Injections in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA ?
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
Android Studio is a powerful IDE with a multitude of features that I’ll probably never discover. However, when I do discover a feature of the IDE that I’ve been dreaming about, I get irrationally excited about it (and often times write a blog post such as this one). One feature that really piqued my interest […] The post Language Injections in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA ? appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Resources for Learning OpenGL  -  An Android Developers Guide
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
In 2018, I started my journey of learning OpenGL, we were migrating our app from using the Android Canvas system to using the more flexible (but indeed more complex) OpenGL ES. OpenGL ES is a cross-platform graphics API that specifies a standard software interface for 3D graphics processing hardware. OpenGL allows you to build interesting […] The post Resources for Learning OpenGL  -  An Android Developers Guide appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Using Github Actions to Automate Our Release Process
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by Rebecca Franks
3y ago
At Over, we’ve recently translated our app into 12 new languages. This meant that our release process started to get a bit more tedious as more steps were introduced into making a new release for the Google Play Store. We were starting to feel the fatigue of manually completing the exact same steps for every […] The post Using Github Actions to Automate Our Release Process appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Smooth Operator: Using StrictMode to make your Android App ANR free
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by Rebecca Franks
4y ago
Performing any kind of long blocking operations or disk IO operations on the Android Main thread can cause ANR issues. (Application Not Responding). You may not even realise that you have a potential ANR until it is too late and is already in your user’s hands. If you are lucky, the library or framework you […] The post Smooth Operator: Using StrictMode to make your Android App ANR free appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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Getting Started with the Motion Editor in Android Studio 4.0
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by Rebecca Franks
4y ago
Android Studio 4.0 has been released in the stable channel! ? What does this mean for us? Well, the new Motion Editor is in Android Studio 4.0 and if you are someone who prefers to use the stable version of tooling, this is probably your first look at the Motion Editor. In this blog post, […] The post Getting Started with the Motion Editor in Android Studio 4.0 appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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AsyncAndroid: Getting Started with MotionLayout
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by Rebecca Franks
4y ago
Wow, what a weird time to be alive, huh? I’m writing this on Day 29 of the lockdown in South Africa due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not sure I have the right words to address the current situation, nor the expertise to talk about it. However, I am good at talking about Android and […] The post AsyncAndroid: Getting Started with MotionLayout appeared first on Rebecca Franks - @riggaroo ..read more
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