Articles tagged with
android
27 Jul 2026
How do you migrate a dependency injection framework in a large-scale Android application without stopping
feature delivery? At Allegro, this question became urgent when our data analysts
indicated a direct link between app startup time and user retention. The answer involved a combination of careful
architectural decisions, a hybrid migration strategy, and AI-powered automation that reduced the migration time
per module from roughly one week to under two days.
26 Sep 2022
Currently, in the Android world, the topic of modularization is very popular. Many bloggers describe their experiences
with it and analyze what Google recommends. Our team
started the modularization process before it was hot. I will describe our reasons, decisions, problems and give you some
advice. We will see if modularization makes sense and what it brings to the table. I will also post some statistics
showing what it looked like before and after the modularization process.
09 Mar 2022
Will automatic UI tests be able to replace manual testers as artificial intelligence will try to replace
programmers? I’ll show you how we write automatic UI tests on Android in Allegro Pay.
02 Mar 2016
If you always search for ways to increase code quality and would like to encourage everyone in your
project to keep high test code coverage all the time, then Codecov may be another
step in your journey.
27 Aug 2015
All over the Internet there are code snippets that show how to make a blur effect on Android. But if you want to
introduce blur as a part of your app design and use it as an effect to hide content under dialogs, drawer etc. there is
no ready solution for all UI components. That’s why I wrote the Fogger library.
24 Aug 2015
Consider you are an Android application developer. You created a mobile application for your website and you would like to enable your
users to browse content of your website using a mobile app. It’s easy if a website uses RESTful guidelines for creating URLs.
Problem comes when a website uses SEO friendly URLs. Handling such links is hard because regular expression mechanism in Android manifest is flawed.
19 Nov 2014
We live in a mobile-oriented world so it’s crucial to provide the best usability experience possible.
In this post we show how you can preserve user’s context when installing a mobile application from a website.
