The Techniques Behind Five Years of Maintaining the Hatena Bookmark App

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This talk explains the engineering practices used to continuously develop the Hatena Bookmark Android app over five years. It covers concrete technologies and approaches for long-term maintenance and evolution of the app (Android-specific development, codebase management, and ongoing feature work) and shares lessons learned to keep an app healthy across many releases.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:19Hatena Bookmark background
3. 2:26Development team history
4. 4:52Test and CI automation
5. 12:16Release flow automation
6. 14:23Development workflow
7. 16:50Refactoring legacy code
8. 18:56Preview builds
9. 19:40Maintainable app design
10. 27:29Q&A

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