Felipe Álvarez

Android dev

[Jaewoong Eum @github_skydoves]

A new screenshot testing tool: screenshot validation.

https://t.co/ovVdND113y

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@AssembleDebug It's embarrassing Sesame search, which hasn't been updated in a while, it's still the best option

[Dimitar @dimitrov2k]

@jussisaur I highly recommend this, it's really good for documentation and stuff: https://t.co/E95y4Kphgg

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@NdelaPlaza @rodrividal_ Sin importar el monto? Se mencionaba un promedio móvil de los últimos 90 días superior a 10k.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

Claude Code te multiplica. Podes ser un 10x dev o -10x dev. Antes la vara si eras malo era llegar a un output razonable que compilaba, ahora eso ya está dado y tenés al más boludo mandando PRs que no entiende.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@TahaTesser Downgrade

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@meditic @dhh @FrameworkPuter It's the other way around IMHO. ARM chips, great build quality are the main competitive advantages of Mac. The software isn't that polished anymore, and most people use a browser or Electron based apps.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

El nuevo checkout de la página de Swiss Medical se lleva el premio a peor UX del año.
Cuando lo estaban testeando les mandé al form de feedback todo lo que estaba mal. Sigue igual.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@arter97 Samsung software is fine. Much time has passed since TouchWiz days.

[Paul Butler @paulgb]

UI codegen demos are all like “check this out, I used AI to build a whole row of houses!”

[Cyril Mottier @cyrilmottier]

In the amo apps, profile pictures are done a bit differently. You record "Your Face," a transparent animated boomerang-like cutout. It feels more personal. You see your friends come to life on-screen, not through overly curated or filtered camera roll photos.

From an engineering perspective, building "Your Face" was an exciting challenge. Here’s what we needed to achieve.

A thread 🧵 - 1/6

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

10% of international web traffic is protected by a wall of lava lamps in San Francisco which converts the changes in randomness of the bubbles into computer code.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

If you're a mobile engineer or interested in iOS and Android, this podcast episode is as good as it gets: How Notion builds its iOS and Android apps.

Two of Notion's founding mobile engineers help us dive deep into the productivity app used by tens of millions of users on mobile. Listen to it or watch it here:

Spotify: https://t.co/YNpMovQ8uQ

YouTube: https://t.co/w8Ni6uIFzG

Apple: https://t.co/Z8w2mwvJK8

Web & transcript: https://t.co/2AT046Posl

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This episode is brought to you by @DeveloperXM the engineering intelligence platform designed by leading researchers. Learn more about them here: https://t.co/b0tD5xBKqa (Coincidentally, DX have just launched a very interesting dev productivity framework called DX Core 4: https://t.co/U5Vw8XeIw9)

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Three interesting takeaways from this conversation:

1. Notion’s native mobile team is surprisingly small!

Notion employs about 600 staff, but the mobile team is only 11 people – including iOS and Android. This team size is very small, especially considering how Notion serves more than 10M users on both iOS and Android. We’re likely talking about one engineer for every ~2M or more users!

2. Moving from web-based to native was an incremental process by necessity.

Thanks to a small native team, and the need to keep the mobile apps up-to-date with the latest Notion features, the native mobile engineering team didn’t have the luxury of doing a large mobile app rewrite. Instead, they did the sensible thing of slowly migrating parts of the app. Today, most of Notion’s apps are fully native, save for the editor. The editor remains one of the most complex parts of Notion.

3. Notion releases their app on a weekly cadence.

Native mobile apps need to go through an app review flow from Apple and Google, and so many native apps are released less frequently, to account for this overhead. Notion doing a weekly release cycle is impressive – and it can serve as inspiration for other native mobile teams. If Notion, with 10M+ native users and a small team, does this, other native teams can as well!

Thanks to the Notion team for sharing all these details!

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

BREAKING: Just when you thought the Google news was over, there's more!

Android XR is officially official – the Gemini era is coming to VR headsets and AR glasses.

Here's the latest, w/o the hype. Let's get into it 🧵

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@benthompson @kaushikgopal I was curious about the same thing when listening. Flutter docs have a good explanation on the different scrolling experience between Android and iOS https://t.co/thDSiwmPkt

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@tkuenneth Q2 release is the major release, will introduce breaking changes. Q4 is a minor release without behavior changes.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@AssembleDebug @Za_Raczke the horizontal scroll for the 10 day forecast looks pretty bad

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

@alexxubyte A still image version of this would be more readable, less distracting IMO

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

Sin cepo desaparece el área roja.

[Maximiliano Firtman @maxifirtman]

💸Guía definitiva para cobrar dólares desde Argentina trabajando para el exterior🔥

👉Actualización 5.1
1️⃣Nuevo límite de 24.000 anuales sin pesificar
2️⃣Actualización menor en cuentas receptoras en Estados Unidos con transferencia a cripto

Link en primera respuesta.

[Felipe Álvarez @felipembalv]

File structure in Android Studio.

[Vasiliy Zukanov @VasiliyZukanov]

Android devs, what's you favorite Android Studio features, plugins, productivity hacks or practices that you wish more Android developers would know and utilize?