Gaurav Chaddha

Software Engineer @PhonePe, Ex-@Zomato. Cooking with @Kotlin. Love talking about Android, Music, Football and Drumming.

[Alexey Bykov @nonewsss]

Over the past years, we’ve conducted a lot of experiments with ExoPlayer at @Reddit to improve video experience in our Android app.

I’ve just published a blog post about it
https://t.co/f23ipYBNiN

[STYLIZED STATION @StylizedStation]

Have you ever wondered how game designers create such massive open worlds?

Wouldn't these environments take decades to build by hand?

Believe it or not, there's actually a way to make these worlds build themselves.

Another long 🧵

[STYLIZED STATION @StylizedStation]

Ever wondered why you can find these awkward lines in textures, even in your favourite AAA games?

It's not because game artists are lazy; there's actually a very specific reason why this happens.

Another thick 🧵

[amul.exe @amuldotexe]

Nikhil bhaiya with all his knowledge & resources is barely beating the index

and then there are people on twitter who tell you to buy individual stocks

and then there are early tech careers folks who spend 100s of hours on stocks, intraday & options trading

if you are an early tech career person:
please go focus on increasing your salary & future earning potential by investing your time in your hands-on craft + interviewing

- build a courage fund
- get your term & health insurance sorted
- compound the money you earned through simple peaceful instruments
- focus on creating more money

not-a-hypothesis
iykwim

[TutHub.io @tuthubio]

Learning to code expectation vs reality

[Philosophy Of Life @PhilOfLife_]

10 Documentaries that will change your Life + Mindset

1. Man on Wire

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

ASML is the most important company you've never heard of.

The $220B Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint.

Here's a breakdown 🧵

[Jan Rabe @Wolkenschauer]

Comparing Jetpack Compose performance with XML #AndroidDev https://t.co/Q6uK2Go2gg

[Sagar Viradiya @viradiya_sagar]

If someone ask me about complete Android testing guide I would 💯point to this article by @HeyMaxKim.

https://t.co/Raw5a46rh9

[Kaushik Subramanian @TheHolyKau]

Very few people know how apps make money.

Fewer understand that Apple is a piece of shit for pulling the absolutist, crappy move called ATT which crippled the industry.

Here's a simplistic explanation on how millions of app developers monetise in the ~$100B+ app ads market:

[Aditya Sharma @sharmaadityaHQ]

testing your own features 🥺

[Ishan Khanna ⚡️ @droidchef]

Been interviewing candidates for senior android roles for a while now, here at Tinder. Here’s are some thoughts and learnings —
Not going to be company specific 1/n 🧵

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What many sw engineers don't realize:

The majority of jobs do not hire you to write the highest quality code or produce the cleanest architecture.

They hire you to solve their business problems very efficiently. Sometimes this means high-quality code. Sometimes not at all.

[Gabor Varadi @Zhuinden]

I'm excited to see the END of backing properties in Kotlin with Kotlin 1.7.0 once and for all.

Never liked backing properties and the _prefix. Always went out of my way to avoid the _.

Finally, a new language feature will eliminate any/all need for them. Good news for Kotlin.

[Shakti Pratap Singh @Shaktipratap10]

Software should be beautiful, in all senses.
Every single pixel and every single line of code should feel like somebody cared.

[Mani. @me_manikanta]

Hey @elonmusk any update on @Tesla in India? I was having a conversation about this with my friend today, so wanted get a status update from you instead of us assuming things 😅😅.

#TeslaInIndia

[Pratyus Patnaik @pratyus]

This is awesome! #bhailang

https://t.co/4NcMH8GOzb

[Piyush Maheswari シ @OnlyMaheswari]

Hi all, I have written another blog (Part 2) on Android and Security.

This one mainly talks about the X509 Certificates. Following this, I'll be covering how to implement SSL Pinning.

Hoping you get to learn something new!

https://t.co/k0twbDCU0f

#AndroidDev #SSLPinning

[Find me on 🦋 : @p-y.wtf @Piwai]

One interesting side effect of progressively migrating is the increase in canceled HTTP requests.

Previously, canceling HTTP requests required additional code that we often didn't bother to write. We'd just let the request run and ignore its result.

But now it gets auto canceld