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• Crafting your Product AI Principles: Taking Cues from Apple & Google on the Themes of Reliability
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• 10 Tips to Spice Up Your Fresh-Grad Portfolio
  

  Benjamin Wood

  Creative Director

• Migration: Gson to Kotlinx.Serialization
  

  David Perez

  Software Engineer

• SwiftUI Custom Alignment
  

  Paul Himes

  Principal Engineer

• How to Design a Successful A/B Test
  

  Ali Joaquin

  Creative Director

• Intro to Polymorphism with Kotlinx.Serialization
  

  David Perez

  Software Engineer

• Cast Aside
  

  Benjamin Wood

  Creative Director

• Embracing the Distance: Strategies for Successful Unmoderated User Research
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• How to lead a software team when you have no idea what they’re talking about
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Talkback Ordering in Android Jetpack Compose
  

  Lucas Kivi

  Software Engineer

• XCTestCase Life Cycle Management
  

  Paul Himes

  Principal Engineer

• Optimize Your Product Strategy Efforts: The Art of Harnessing Unmoderated User Research
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• Error States, Your New Bestie
  

  Phylicia Flynn

  UI/UX Designer

• Pick the Process, Pick the Culture
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• What Barack Obama's Wardrobe Has in Common With a Good Git History
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• Design Audits: Adding One More Hat to the Product Design Haberdashery
  

  Chris Wodicka

  UI/UX Designer

• I Ditched User Personas — And Here’s Why You Should Too
  

  Ali Joaquin

  Creative Director

• Building Insights with Product Usage Data
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• Don't Live with Regret. Build a Kill Switch into your Mobile App
  

  Matt Schraan

  VP, Product Management

• Leveling Up as a Product Designer
  

  Ali Joaquin

  Creative Director

• Creating a Service Layer in Swift
  

  Josh Rondestvedt

  Software Engineer

• Tuning your Mobile Mindset to TV: 5 Tips for Product Managers Moving to Smart TVs.
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• Five Reasons To Write Unit Tests
  

  Josh Rondestvedt

  Software Engineer

• The RxJava Threading Mistake You Are Probably Making
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• My Favorite Design Patterns: State
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• Higher-Order Code Smells (Part 2)
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• How to connect your Android emulator to a local web service
  

  Sean Weiser

  Principal Engineer

• Integrating Your Roku Channel With Roku Pay
  

  Rob Abbott

  Software Engineer

• 3 Insights From My Budding UX Career
  

  Chris Wodicka

  UI/UX Designer

• Bad Dates with DatePicker
  

  Chris Fry

  Software Engineer

• A Core Location Abstraction Layer with Combine and SwiftUI
  

  Matt Czech

  Software Engineer

• A Selectable, Expanding List in SwiftUI
  

  Josh Rondestvedt

  Software Engineer

• A Product Manager’s Guide to Roku Beta Testing Programs.
  

  Jack Cunningham

  Director, Product Management

• PDF Pitfalls in Xcode
  

  Kagan Riedel

  Software Engineer

• The importance of <button>
  

  Nick Krantz

  Software Engineer

• Why I Test Technology Like a Toddler
  

  John Caplinger

  QA Analyst

• Coroutine Misconceptions: Whose Context Is It Anyway?
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• How Learning UX Made Me a Better Developer
  

  Megan Pekarek

  Software Engineer

• Higher-Order Code Smells
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• 10 Swift Extensions We Use at Livefront
  

  Josh Rondestvedt

  Software Engineer

• Don’t Make Your Code Predict the Future
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• The Journey from App to App Clip
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• SwiftUI’s Missing onLayout Modifier
  

  Paul Himes

  Principal Engineer

• RESTful API Design Tips for Digital Products
  

  Sam Kirchmeier

  VP, Engineering

• Advanced Android Edge-to-Edge (Part 2): BottomSheetDialogFragment
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• The Most Overlooked Aspect of Effective Software Development
  

  Matt Schraan

  VP, Product Management

• Advanced Android Edge-to-Edge (Part 1): Keyboard Transitions with MotionLayout
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• Mistakes to Avoid When Switching from Graphic Design to Product Design
  

  Justy Carlin

  Designer

• Best practices when responding to App Store reviews
  

  Jennifer Morgan

  Product Manager

• Improve Android build-times by using resConfigs
  

  Sean Weiser

  Principal Engineer

• What to do with a Green Candidate with a Great Attitude
  

  Nels Pederson

  Partnerships

• Is an App Clip Right For Your App?
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• View Constructors in Kotlin
  

  David Perez

  Software Engineer

• Kotlin @ 60FPS
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Dagger Hilt: Testing injected Android components with code coverage
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• Suspending Lambdas in Kotlin
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• sealed-enum: Replacing Enums in Kotlin
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• 5 Tips to Surviving a Remote Internship
  

  Jubie Alade

  Software Engineer

• Adapting Gson to Kotlin
  

  David Perez

  Software Engineer

• Kotlin: A tale of cyclical static initialization
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• Fixing Issues with Codable Identifiers
  

  Mason O'Neil

  Software Engineer

• Take More Shortcuts
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Android Static Code Checks — Keep Your Codebase Tidy With Detekt
  

  Andrew Haisting

  Software Engineer

• kotlinx.serialization: (de)serializing JSON’s nullable, optional properties
  

  Alex Vanyo

  Software Engineer

• What is Type Erasure?
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• TransactionTooLargeException and a Bridge to Safety — Part 2
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• Native Android Libraries Gone Bad
  

  Sean Weiser

  Principal Engineer

• Swift expected nil, not <nil>

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• How (Programming) Languages Shape Problem-Solving

  Keehun Nam

  Software Engineer

• When Will It Be Done?
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Applying Design Concepts to Code — Part III
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• How to get featured on the App Store by making Apple look good

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• The First 2 Commits Every Android Project Should Have
  

  Andrew Haisting

  Software Engineer

• Why isn’t viewWillAppear getting called?

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Applying Design Concepts to Code — Part II
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• TransactionTooLargeException and a Bridge to Safety — Part 1
  

  Brian Yencho

  Director, Engineering

• Kotlin for Java: Part I — Constructors & Builders
  

  David Perez

  Software Engineer

• Practical Dynamic Type, Part 3: Attributed Text

  Keehun Nam

  Software Engineer

• How To Sabotage Your Project Using Inconsistency
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Understanding Swift's CharacterSet

  Keehun Nam

  Software Engineer

• Adventures in iOS Dev Automation

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• You're Misusing MVVM
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Your code will be a liability if your types have mediocre names

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Home improvement insights that will make you a better designer.

  Andy Davis

  Designer

• Documenting Design Workflows

  Josiah Gulden

  Designer

• Uploading data in the background in iOS

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Spacial Orientation for Developers in a Hurry
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• Basic Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Xcode, and GitHub

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Practical Dynamic Type, Part 2: Testing

  Keehun Nam

  Software Engineer

• 4 hard-won lessons from working on a professional software engineering team

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Introduction to SwiftPoet

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Unit Testing race conditions by creating chaos (Swift)

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• If You Want To Design Good APIs, Start Thinking Like A Designer
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• How to change the Toolbar font on Android
  

  Andrew Haisting

  Software Engineer

• Applying Design Concepts to Code
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• Alarming technique for letting your user rearrange objects

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Stop Putting State In Your View Models
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• How to debug background fetch events on iOS

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• How to add a dynamic Swift framework to a Command Line Tool

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• RecyclerView Trick: Selectively bind ViewHolders with Payloads
  

  Andrew Haisting

  Software Engineer

• 4 tips for using Carthage

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• UIApplicationDelegate call sequence reference

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Practical Dynamic Type
  

  Chris Sessions

  Software Engineer

• Cover up your users’ sensitive data — it’s private.

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Tidy up your Observable Streams with Kotlin’s Sealed Classes
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• The (best) way to perform online user testing with Principle

  Andy Davis

  Designer

• Animating font size in UILabels

  Sean Berry

  Software Engineer

• Thinking Functionally in Swift
  

  Tyler Johnson

  Software Engineer

• It's Alive! Turning design mock-up into reality
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer

• The Language of Motion: Advanced Touch Processing in Android
  

  Collin Flynn

  Principal Engineer