As developers, we tend to display our technical knowledge as often as we can. It feels good to showcase how much we actually do know in our specific areas and we feel really professional when we code something really clever. But the one thing we often forget is to ask a really basic question: Why? Why are we behaving like that and do we really need to do that?
In the past year, Async Labs has grown from 4 people to 14. It's great to see such an enormous growth of our team, but this sudden expansion brought some problems with it: #our processes weren't scalable #we didn't have developer's documentations prepared #our tasks and schedules were ad hoc organised and other similar issue So we found ourselves in a situation where we had to introduce finite standards for our company (for the time being, at least).
To stay relevant and unique in a constantly changing & competitive market, companies are working to modernize their processes and to improve their online platforms and digital strategies. However, when upgrading their online identities, there are many obstacles that companies will inevitably face, sooner or later. With that on our mind, we are always on the lookout for improvements to our processes and presentation techniques as you will see in the article ahead.
If you want to test a source code of an Android application, you should consider testing it in three different categories. Every category of Android testing levels is required to say with confidence there is only a small risk that something does not work correctly inside the app. Just check the test pyramid below to […]
D3.js is a Javascript library for data-driven DOM manipulation. This is a generic sentence, but when you look at the sheer amount of examples in their repository, it starts to make sense. We are sure most of you reading this article already heard about D3.js. So what’s the point of this article? It’s intended for […]
Believe it or not, only a minority of Android developers use Unit tests or tests at all. That brings up a question – how can they be sure that the source code they produce works. Many companies don’t use them by default, and the client, in most cases, is not willing to pay for extra […]
How to check internet connection with GetActiveNetworkInfo? If you are developing Android devices, you probably faced checking if a user has access to the Internet. The general use case is when a user has access to the Internet you would call an API and update the local database, but if a user doesn’t have access to the […]