Joao Alves

Engineering Manager at IndeedFlex

Recent posts

Nov 8, 2018
Firebase Android Playground — Authentication In this one we’ll look into Firebase Authentication and see how easy it is to authenticate your users in several different ways with the help of the available SDKs.
Oct 23, 2018
Firebase Android Playground — setting up and Analytics Hello everyone, welcome to my latest article. Guess what, I decided to write a new series 😀. Haven’t used most of Firebase features and…
Sep 29, 2018
Playing with Navigation Architecture Components

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Hello there everyone, welcome to my latest article. Today we’re going to play around with the new Navigation Architecture Components. Ok, maybe not so new 😃 but since it’s almost reaching it’s first stable release feels like a good time to write about it.

This article won’t be part of a series so I created a sample project just for it on GitHub, there’s a link at the bottom of the article.

Aug 29, 2018
Writing UI Tests with Espresso and Kakao

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Hi everyone, after completing 2 series of articles, I think now I’m going to write some individual ones for a change. The goal of an article every 2 weeks for 2018 remains, so expect more. But let’s jump into today’s one.

In the last article of my London Tube Status Series, I showed a very simple UI test for the main screen of the app using Espresso and Kakao. It was not very detailed, so I decided to write a bit more about it, hence this article.

May 9, 2018
Kotlin Playground — finish line

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Hi everyone. Welcome to article number 12 and last one of the Kotlin Playground Series. We got to the finish line. This is one doesn’t have any relevant content, it’s just a good bye and thanks for sticking around and reading all the articles and providing really nice feedback.

But I said my goal for 2018 was to write an article every 2 weeks so I have to stick to it, right? This one doesn’t really count, so today I also published the first article on my new series — London Tube Status App.