Building a truly accessible clickable div
When developing features at Wealthfront, it is somewhat common to receive a design mock where an entire card is clickable. One example is the account card on a client’s dashboard. The link itself is highlighted by our purple primary text, and clicking it takes you to the corresponding Wealthfront account page. In fact, clicking anywhere… Read more
Visual Regression Testing on Android
Recently, we found visual regressions in our app after we shipped the app to production on the play store and that is one of the last places you want to catch a bug. We wanted to improve when we detect these bugs and address them way earlier in the development process. There are a couple… Read more
Android App Modularization at Wealthfront (Part 3)
In the previous blog post, we looked at how we started with modularization and refactored our existing code into the legacy module which was ready to be modularized into smaller infrastructure and feature modules. In this blog post, we will go in detail about how we’d refactored our infrastructure modules with the help of interfaces. … Read more
Android App Modularization at Wealthfront (Part 2)
In the previous blog post, we looked at how the project was initially set up, and now we will take a look at how we started organizing features into Gradle modules. To ensure a consistent bucketing strategy throughout the migration period, we decided that it would be ideal to place any new code inside dedicated… Read more
Android App Modularization at Wealthfront (Part 1)
App modularization is the process of spitting a monolithic architecture into much smaller components with high cohesion and low coupling. In layman’s terms, chopping down a very large codebase into smaller digestible (ideally independent) pieces that share a common responsibility. Our main goal was to improve the incremental build times of the application to boost… Read more
Running in the Background: Building Seamless Account Linking
Long ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and Wealthfront was starting to brainstorm a financial planning offering, early designs amounted to an online financial calculator with lots of bells and whistles. Users would be expected to enter all of their account information by hand — and keep it up to date! It took minimal… Read more