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Highlighting Text Input with Jetpack Compose

Dec 13, 2022 6 min read Overflow

We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready,

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Hack-Week: Embedding Our Values and Causes in Our Product

Mar 1, 2021 9 min read Open

Towards the end of 2020, the Buffer engineering team held a two-day hack event where the team explored ideas that aligned with both our personal

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Migrating our component library to the Material Button

Feb 14, 2020 4 min read Overflow

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Selectively running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server

Dec 20, 2019 8 min read

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Getting Buffer Publish ready for Android 10

Sep 11, 2019 9 min read Overflow

Android 10 is officially here! On 3rd September it began rolling out for pixel devices, so we wanted to be sure that our app was

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Library module navigation in Android Applications

Jul 30, 2019 9 min read Overflow

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Video: Getting started with Go [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

Jun 7, 2019 1 min read Workplace of the future

At Buffer we regularly hold what we call ‘Snackchats’. These are short & informal presentations of something that we want to share with our team which

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Creating a custom video SeekBar on Android

Feb 8, 2019 7 min read Overflow

Header Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new feature we’ve been building out required the use of a thumbnail picker for video

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Video: Automate Everything – From Review to Release [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

Jan 18, 2019 1 min read Workplace of the future

At Buffer we regularly hold what we call ‘Snackchats’. These are short & informal presentations of something that we want to share with our team which

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Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews

Jan 8, 2019 4 min read Overflow

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Getting started with feature modularization in Android Apps

Dec 20, 2018 9 min read Overflow

Modularization in android applications is nothing new – I previously outlined the different types of modularization and the advantages they bring over in this post [https:

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