Monitoring 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…

Building a triangle Vulkan app with Bazel — This is the second part of a series of blog posts about building projects that use Vulkan graphics API with Bazel build system. In part 1, we performed an environment setup for a simple Vulkan project that uses GLM and GLFW libraries. …

Running projects that use Vulkan graphics API with Bazel build system — In this blog post, we will see how to set up an environment for Vulkan projects built with Bazel. Then, in part 2 we will work with the project that builds GLSL shaders and draws a triangle. Vulkan — is an open standard for 3D graphics and computing that enables…

Mobile 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. …

Building Android apps with Bazel build system. — Bazel for Android — is a series of blog posts that shows the basics of building Android projects with the Bazel build system. Part 1 — Getting started Part 2 — Multi-module projects ← you are here Part 3 — Using Kotlin (coming soon) Part 4 — Adding external dependencies…

Designing 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…

Airin 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…

A guide for creating your first Kotlin Symbol Processor (KSP) — Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) is a new API from Google for creating lightweight Kotlin compiler plugins that do annotation processing. The benefit of KSP is that it provides an idiomatic way of processing Kotlin code by understanding Kotlin-specific features, such as extension functions, local functions, declaration-site variance, and others. …

Building Android apps with Bazel build system. — Bazel for Android — is a series of blog posts that shows the basics of building Android projects with Bazel build system. Bazel — is an open-source build system developed by Google. It provides advanced local and distributed caching, optimized dependency analysis, and parallel execution. It supports a wide variety…