Android

A brief look at Koin on Android

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’s a powerful tool that not only does everything I need it to but there is also a great community around it...

Android

Announce Your Actions: Making gesture actions accessible

We’re working towards better accessibility for our Android apps here at Buffer. That’s why when we recently added a new feature to Reply, we took...

Android

Exposing Notification Settings to the Android System

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...

Data

Churn Prediction: First Contact

There’s a lot written about churn. A quick google search returns several blog posts with various definitions and types of churn. That said, not a...

Android

Exploring Image Keyboard Support on Android

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...

Android

Exploring Android on Chrome OS: Optimizing keyboard navigation

A look at how we can optimize the input forms of our applications to make them navigable and intractable in a natural manner when it...

Android

Manage subscriptions with ease using the Google Play Subscription Center

At Google IO this year there was a great session on some new Google Play features to make subscriptions and billing operations easier for both...

DevOps

Video: Product-oriented GIT workflow [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

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

Architecture

Evolving Buffer’s Data Architecture

Introducing BUDA (Buffer's Unified Data Architecture). Learn about BUDA's high-level principles and components, as well as the considerations that led to their design. We’ll touch...

Inside Buffer

Video: Let Kotlin Come To You [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

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

Android

Google I/O: What’s new for Android

Last week we were lucky enough to be able to attend Google I/O in Mountain View, California. Between the two of us we managed to...

Inside Buffer

Video: AWS IAM Role on Kubernetes with kube2iam [Bufferdevs Snackchat]

At Buffer we invest heavily on Kubernetes. Since we use AWS as our cloud provider, getting services the right permission usually means having AWS keys/secrets in Kubernetes...

iOS

Building a GIF Booth for the Buffer Retreat

Last week the Buffer team descended on Singapore for our 9th Buffer Retreat. Ever since the first retreat back in San Francisco, I’ve tried to...

Android