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109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood | Swift by Sundell

Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of various sizes. Also, the design of ShapeScript, using async/await within unit tests, and much more. RevenueCat: In-app subscriptions made easy. RevenueCat handles the pain points of implementing subscriptions and in-app purchases, […]

iMessage reactions now appear as emoji on Android

iMessage reactions now appear as emoji inside the latest version of the Google Messages app on Android. Prior to this release, Android users saw somewhat lengthy template messages when they received an iMessage reaction from a contact using an iPhone. This change offers a cleaner, much more streamlined experience. Google Messages adds iMessage reactions If […]

The state of managing state (with Compose)

Posted by Jake Wharton on November 11, 2021 Five years ago the Cash App Android client started splitting our UI rendering and UI presenter responsibilities into distinct types. We had leaned into RxJava heavily in the years prior, and it became very effective in facilitating this split. I ended up giving a fun talk, “The State […]

Density & the Future of Real Estate

Nearly six years ago, I was thrilled to invest in Andrew Farah and the team at Density when they had a vision for building anonymous tracking of how people use office buildings, rentals and other public spaces. And today, as the company announces their latest funding round of $125M at a $1B+ valuation, I’m still […]