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Using Github Actions to Automate Our Release Process

At Over, we’ve recently translated our app into 12 new languages. This meant that our release process started to get a bit more tedious as more steps were introduced into making a new release for the Google Play Store. We were starting to feel the fatigue of manually completing the exact same steps for every […]

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Automated Testing of SQLite Database Upgrades – Android

As a follow up to my previous post [How to use onUpgrade() correctly in Android], I decided that I should probably add some tests to avoid database upgrade failures in the future. Manually testing database upgrades in Android can be quite a pain and you are bound to miss something, especially if you have had loads of versions […]

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Android SQLite Database – How to use onUpgrade() correctly

After reading this blog post (and a few others) on how to use the onUpgrade() method for your Android SQLite Database, I thought I should share my experience about how to correctly upgrade your database. It will also be beneficial to highlight why the final solution listed in that blog post would also fail at some point for some scenarios. […]

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Book Dash Android App

I have been working on this app for a couple of months and I am SOOO excited to share it with everyone. The app that I have made is for a NPO called Book Dash. Their cause has inspired me and I decided I wanted to make an app for them that would showcase their […]

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[Github Library] Android Material Info Tutorial

I made a Github library to create an on-boarding activity for your Android application. It is inspired by the tutorial in the Google Sheets app. The library offers the ability to set a different background colour per slide. It transitions the colours into one another by calculating the colour between the one it’s transitioning to and where it is […]