Afrolabs Software

love creating

startup dev & design studio based in Cape Town, building & scaling MVPs;
facilitate "x-labs": community & coaching support for growing tech teams

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Love creating

❤️💖✨

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Indie hackers Cape Town tonight, come along and connect with makers, sellers, hackers!

"Come curious and ready to share your experiences, give and receive feedback, and support one another."

https://t.co/P8BmZ8JShU

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

NEW POST: Many software teams pack too much work into their iterations. Teams will usually run better when they have deliberate slack, as it allows their delivery to be more predictable and gives them time to improve their environment.

https://t.co/YW7NtxVVt2

[Wickedgeekie @wickedgeekie]

I have finally managed to get my hands on some never seen before footage of the @afrolabs team at work under my direction over the previous 6 weeks, with a rare glimpse of the junior product owner I'm training and coaching.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Oh no.

[Coolest Projects @CoolestProjects]

Coolest Projects South Africa will be celebrating online and in-person this year with an event in Cape Town on the morning of Saturday, 10 December 2022.

Learn more about the event and how you can get involved here: https://t.co/qTGpCLB4ag

@coder_levelup @davidcampey

[Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle]

horrible news. been starting my days with 20-30 min of light yoga and unfortunately it really makes a difference, mentally and physically. i’m so sorry

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Know anyone in need of our wizardry?
(dev&design start-up product MVPs: @GoogleCloudTech, @Firebase, web, android, pub-sub, bigquery, BDD, CI/CD)

We've got an @afrolabs tech team needing a new mission, looking for something cool/weird/positive impact that we can love creating.

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Meeting the team's needs helps them to succeed, but sometimes it can be difficult to even know where to start looking for needs of the team.

We map out the Team Needs Hexagon when working with teams at afrolabs and x-labs, pointing to six supporting domains to look in for needs.

[:David Campey @davidcampey]

Sound familiar? "We're ready to do this, now we just need a great dev team to execute."

ofc, that has a big "just" with hiring, team forming and finding flow.

BUT, if you do know someone who is in that situation, please connect us 🙏🏻
We have a great team available now @afrolabs

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

cre·​ate | \ krē-ˈāt \
created; creating
Def'n of create

1: to bring into existence
2a: to invest with a new form, office, or rank
b: to produce or bring about by a course of action or behavior
3: CAUSE
4a: to produce through imaginative skill
b: DESIGN

https://t.co/YTtwRfml0I

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Love creating

❤️💖✨

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

love, verb \ ˈləv \
loved; loving

Definition of love

1: to hold dear : CHERISH
2: to feel a lover's passion, devotion, or tenderness for
3: to like or desire actively : take pleasure in
loved to play the violin
4: to thrive in
the rose loves sunlight

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[PyConZA @pyconza]

A warm welcome to @afrolabs, our Patron sponsor for 🐍 #PyConZA2022! https://t.co/7jZCD1nIC5

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Enjoy creating

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

ALT text for the picture in the previous tweet: chocolate cake with the words "Farewell office, hello future" on it.

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Farewell office, hello future.

Tonight we had a great cake time saying "farewell to the office" at afrolabs.

Our physical office has been a hard-working part of our company(-ies) for the past 18 years, we celebrated the office and now going full remote with cake at the office.

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

Excitement in the fabric of afro-space-time as we are all gathering physically together as a company for our first all-in in-person week, many will meet in-the-flesh for the first time!

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

They've been working together and collaborating for the past few years on Google cloud, firestore, angular/react/vue, android. Recent problem domains: locations, mapping, tracking, scheduling.

[:David Campey @davidcampey]

@afrolabs @xamarinhq @FlutterDev @Firebase For a deeper dive on Detox there was this great post by @iremkaraoglu_ last month:
"I would like to talk about UI tests, which is one of the things that I am responsible for a year in the company that I work at." ... "Talk is cheap, show me the code."
https://t.co/3XoujOKc0P

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

This thread☝🏻is the intro to our latest post "Getting started with Android automation",
by (B)enjamin and @davidcampey,
featuring a success story from the Loop delivery app.

Read more here: https://t.co/BJjuHCMUsl

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

The @Android app development cycle involves many complex steps, especially to get a build ready for customers.

Two time-consuming steps that are complex to get right are testing and deployment.

There are ways to reduce this using automation, using tools such as:
1/...

[Afrolabs Software @afrolabs]

For non-native apps:
- Detox (React Native)
- Appium (React Native)
- Xamarin.UITest (@xamarinhq)
- @FlutterDev's built-in test

worth mentioning @Firebase Test Lab can potentially be crow-barred to work w/ limited functionality on non-native apps using OCR capabilities 3/...