Published inTuro Engineering·PinnedIntroducing Nibel: A Navigation Library for Adopting Jetpack Compose in Fragment-Based AppsAdopting Jetpack Compose in existing codebases is a challenge many teams face nowadays. Recently, we published a story about how we designed a Jetpack Compose architecture for the Turo Android app that heavily relies on fragments. Today, we are excited to make it open-source as Nibel. Nibel — is a…Android10 min readAndroid10 min read
Published inTuro Engineering·PinnedDesigning Jetpack Compose architecture for a gradual transition from fragments on AndroidAdopting Jetpack Compose at Turo — Jetpack Compose is a modern toolkit recommended for building native UI for Android apps. It provides a more intuitive developer experience helping engineers to write less UI code while making it more reliable. The engineering team at Turo was excited about adopting Jetpack Compose in our Android app. However, as…Jetpack Compose15 min readJetpack Compose15 min read
Published inTuro Engineering·PinnedHow we reduced our Android startup time by 77%Mobile performance at Turo — The startup time of a mobile app is one of the most important indicators of its performance and has a significant impact on the user experience. A fast-loading app not only provides a positive first impression, but also increases engagement and retention, reduces user churn, and can improve visibility in…Android13 min readAndroid13 min read
Published inLyft Engineering·Jan 17Detecting Android memory leaks in productionMonitoring mobile performance and resource consumption at Lyft — Android developers have a number of tools in their arsenal for detecting memory leaks such as Android Studio Memory Profiler, LeakCanary, Perfetto, etc. These tools are useful when analyzing app builds locally. However, in production the app is running on a wide range of devices in different circumstances and it…Android8 min readAndroid8 min read
Published inCodeX·Nov 14, 2022Building Vulkan shaders with BazelBazel for Vulkan projects — This is the second part of a series of blog posts about building projects that use Vulkan graphics API with Bazel build system. In the first part, we performed an environment setup for a simple Vulkan project that uses GLM and GLFW libraries. …Vulkan4 min readVulkan4 min read
Published inCodeX·May 6, 2022Setting up Bazel for Vulkan projectsBazel for Vulkan projects — In this blog post, we will see how to set up an environment for Vulkan projects built with Bazel. Then, in the second part, we are going to see how Bazel can build GLSL shaders for Vulkan. Vulkan — is an open standard for 3D graphics and computing that enables…Vulkan5 min readVulkan5 min read
Published inLyft Engineering·Apr 13, 2022Monitoring CPU performance of Lyft’s Android applicationsMobile performance at Lyft — 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine Android applications such as Lyft’s apps are developed by a large number of contributors. This means that the codebase grows and changes very quickly. Features are constantly being added or improved, and all these modifications can potentially impact the performance of the application. …Performance9 min readPerformance9 min read
Published inProAndroidDev·Feb 21, 2022Building multi-module Android apps with BazelBazel for Android — Bazel for Android — is a series of blog posts that show the basics of building Android projects with the Bazel build system. Part 1 — Getting started with Bazel for Android Part 2 — Building multi-module Android apps with Bazel ← this post In this part, we will see…Bazel6 min readBazel6 min read
Published inProAndroidDev·Nov 11, 2021Navigating through multi-module Jetpack Compose applicationsDesigning a scalable architecture for multi-module Jetpack Compose apps — Jetpack Compose, navigation, multi-module architecture, API and Impl modules, dependency injection — in this blog post, we will see how these components can be combined into a scalable multi-module architecture using best practices in Android development. We will also see how to use a Compose Navigation API to efficiently navigate…Architecture14 min readArchitecture14 min read
Published inProAndroidDev·Aug 5, 2021Automated migration of your projects to Bazel build system with AirinAirin is a framework for automated migration of your projects to Bazel build system. In particular, it can help to migrate Android apps from Gradle to Bazel. Bazel is an open-source build system developed by Google. It provides fast incremental builds by using local and remote caching. It can build…Bazel9 min readBazel9 min read
