Android on code.kiwi.com

Type-safe arguments in Jetpack Navigation Compose

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 20:07:00 +0000

NavigationComposeTyped in action

Jetpack Navigation Compose is the Jetpack Navigation library enhanced for usage in Compose. But the actual “enhancement” is a bit limited and different from the View-based navigation. Most importantly, there are no SafeArgs — a type-safe compile time solution for passing arguments between destinations. Navigation for Compose uses a simple URL pattern — arguments have to be converted to a string as a query parameter/path segment.

Rewriting Android App’s Back-Handling Logic

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:04:00 +0000

Our Kiwi.com app is quite old and vast. It is in development for about 7 years; each year we’re adding more features and code, each year the app is being worked on by more developers.

Page Objects for E2E Android UI testing

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:22:00 +0000

Android end-to-end UI testing is not that difficult, but we have observed that the official API/tooling doesn’t scale much if you have a big app.

“Page Object” is a design pattern abstraction over a particular screen: it provides access to read the screen’s data and provides an API to interact with the screen. You may read the pattern description on Martin Fowler’s site.

React Native at Kiwi.com

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:25:00 +0000

Kiwi.com app is running on three main platforms — web, iOS and Android — and was written with different platform-specific technologies. We were curious about the possibilities of sharing code across multiple platforms and dug into React Native (and React Native Web). Read on to find out what we learnt on the way.