API Design API Design Case Studies: Intersection Types My team recently cleaned up an API in an internal storage library. While it’s a simple case, it covers a couple interesting language tools and tradeoffs. Let’s dig in! The starting pointIt’s a function called enumStoreKeys that returns a Set of StoreKey enums for a given classKey.
Renderscript Detecting Blurriness with Renderscript About three years ago, I worked on a project at Uber to try to detect when photos taken client-side were blurry. The goal was to be able to fail fast, ask the user to retake them if necessary, and save the cycle of waiting for something we could programmatically determine
AutoDispose Announcing AutoDispose 1.0 About two years ago, just after migrating my CatchUp side project to RxJava 2, I started a branch called “boundObservers” to try out an idea I had for RxLifecycle-style automatic disposal of streams. I rewrote it from scratch a few times after, and a couple months later we had pulled
RxJava RxAndroid's New Async API “RxAndroid meets VSYNC rubber” — Icon used with permission from Ray WenderlichRxAndroid 2.1.0 has a new APIAndroidSchedulers#from(Looper looper, boolean async) This new async parameter affects Android APIs 16 and newer, and can significantly improve UI performance when set to true if your app makes heavy use of
CatchUp Catching Up on CatchUp: API Quirks I also wanted to do some practice with using different APIs. This blog is an account of how each one’s special in its own way. There’s no real overarching technical takeaway here other than some neat clever solutions along the way.
CatchUp Catching Up on CatchUp: A Dagger-powered Plugin System For context — see the introduction post. This is part of a series of technical deep dives into different things I’ve learned along the way. This post assumes some prior knowledge of Dagger. In CatchUp, the principle architecture is that you have a set of services available for consumption (Hacker
