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Building a Pride Rainbow Easter Egg into the Over Android App 🏳️‍🌈

This post originally appeared here on the GoDaddy Engineering blog. The Over App is a playground for creating beautiful content for social media. As developers on the app, we are often inspired by the pictures and videos that our users make. To inspire our users a bit more, we decided to create a small easter […] The post Building a Pride Rainbow...

Sun Jun 13, 2021 13:27
Writing a better Tech Resume / CV

Your resume doesn’t need to be boring! In the past couple of years of my career I’ve been involved in the recruitment process of software engineers, which has meant reading a lot of resumes and deciding when to move forward with a candidate based on its content. I’ve seen some really great resumes and unfortunately, […] The post Writing a better Tech...

Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:19
start(“Your Career in Tech”); 🚀

Getting starting in the tech industry is a daunting experience. I remember being fresh out of university back in 2012 with big expectations of what the working world would be like. Navigating the industry for the past 9 years has taught me a few key ideas that I feel really helped me steer my career […] The post start(“Your Career in Tech”); 🚀 appeared...

Tue Apr 6, 2021 22:08
Language Injections in Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA 💉

Android Studio is a powerful IDE with a multitude of features that I’ll probably never discover. However, when I do discover a feature of the IDE that I’ve been dreaming about, I get irrationally excited about it (and often times write a blog post such as this one). One feature that really piqued my interest […] The post Language Injections in Android...

Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:25
Resources for Learning OpenGL  -  An Android Developers Guide

In 2018, I started my journey of learning OpenGL, we were migrating our app from using the Android Canvas system to using the more flexible (but indeed more complex) OpenGL ES. OpenGL ES is a cross-platform graphics API that specifies a standard software interface for 3D graphics processing hardware. OpenGL allows you to build interesting […] The...

Fri Jan 8, 2021 11:33
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 […] The post Using Github Actions to Automate...

Wed Oct 7, 2020 13:44

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