Menu

Tagged in android :


Niu Guangyuan

Streamlining Asynchronous Programming on Android

Background Asynchronous programming plays a vital role in mobile development, ensuring that applications remain responsive to user input even while fetching data from databases or networks. At Wealthfront, we heavily rely on asynchronous programming for making network calls to the Wealthfront API server on Android. Initially, RxJava was the go-to choice for this purpose, serving… Read more

October 02, 2023 , , , ,

Chris Mathew

Creating Android Lint Checks: A Survival Guide

At Wealthfront, we’ve observed that the cost of resolving an issue becomes exponentially higher the later it is discovered. For example, a defect discovered at design time is far easier to resolve than one which has already reached our clients. And between those extremes, we can discover issues at code authoring, compilation, or automated test… Read more

September 12, 2023 , , ,

Himanshu

Creating Wealthfront Android Design System Resources Package

Current system As part of building a multi-platform design system, the Design System team at Wealthfront revised our color system to support generating application themes from a given set of brand colors. After defining an algorithm for this, we codified it into a theme generator  script which generates output for all platforms: XML for Android, JSON… Read more

March 17, 2023 ,

Chris Mathew

Designing a harness for readable, thorough Android tests

At Wealthfront, we are committed to automation – both in the products we build, and in how we ensure quality. In this post we’ll explore how our automated test harness enables Android developers to quickly build tests for almost any scenario. Part 1: Writing “fluent” Espresso test code Since they are designed to operate in… Read more

September 14, 2022 , , , , ,

Spencer Miskoviak

Building Wealthfront’s multi-platform design system

Over the past two years at Wealthfront we’ve been building a design system from the ground up across all our frontend platforms: Android, iOS, and web. If you’re a Wealthfront client you may have noticed sweeping, iterative visual changes across our apps as we introduced new components and migrated features to adopt these components. At… Read more

May 10, 2022 , , ,

Chris Mathew

Targeting Android SDK 30

When Google announced that Play Store apps must target SDK 30 by August, our team started investigating what it would take to meet this requirement. Now, with our migration to SDK 30 complete, we’d like to detail the changes our team made. This is not meant to be an exhaustive migration guide – but hopefully… Read more