Publications Open 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 Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Migrating our component library to the Material Button Feb 14, 2020 4 min read Overflow Header Photo by Pearse O’Halloran on Unsplash For our Android clients we have a small component library which is used to Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Selectively running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server Dec 20, 2019 8 min read Header Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash Modularizing your Android projects can bring a number of different advantages to your team. Some of these include Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow 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 Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Library module navigation in Android Applications Jul 30, 2019 9 min read Overflow Header Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash When it comes to building android applications, there’s no doubt that we’ll need Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow 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 Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow 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 files. Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow 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 Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Digging into failed redirects within Android Webviews Jan 8, 2019 4 min read Overflow Header Photo by The Nigmatic on Unsplash Discovering the issueIt was the 14th December and we were winding down ready for the Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow 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, and Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Fully Automated Continuous Deployment on Android with Bitrise Nov 29, 2018 17 min read Overflow Deploying mobile applications tends to be a fairly different process than when it comes to web applications. On the web we can push updates and Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Keeping check on your Android Libraries with Danger & Bitrise Oct 26, 2018 4 min read Overflow When you’re working on large projects, sometimes it can be difficult to ensure that all of your libraries are kept up-to-date. Whilst we can Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow A brief look at Koin on Android Sep 13, 2018 8 min read Overflow In my projects both at work and outside, I’ve always used Dagger for Dependency Injection. Not only am I familiar with it, but it’ Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Exposing Notification Settings to the Android System Aug 17, 2018 2 min read Overflow Have you ever looked at the Android System settings page for a specific application and wondered about the option to view “Additional settings in the Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Exploring Image Keyboard Support on Android Aug 9, 2018 5 min read Overflow During a recent hack day we added a bunch of small but impactful features into our application, one of these being integration with the GIF Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
Publications Overflow Exploring Android on Chrome OS: Optimizing keyboard navigation Jul 30, 2018 8 min read Overflow Recently I managed to get my hands on a Pixelbook. If you haven’t got one, or even read to much into them, then you’ Joe Birch, Senior Engineer @ Buffer
