The Role of a Technical Advisor in Android App Development
summary
A technical advisor who joined PickUp Inc. in July 2017 describes leading development of a new Android app while coordinating iOS and Android versions. The talk covers the advisor role, daily work, project and team structure, having iOS and Android engineers write APIs, code review practices and tooling (CI), library and architecture choices, and company-wide skill-raising mechanisms.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Technical advisor role
- 2:20First project challenges
- 6:56Team building
- 8:49Sprints and tracking
- 10:16Code reviews and standards
- 14:37Release communication
- 16:03Tech blog
- 18:21External tech branding
- 20:13Employee engagement
- 22:07Mobile engineer meetups
- 23:38Cross-team learning
- 24:31Android architecture
- 26:46Technology selection
- 27:10Data analytics and monitoring
- 27:52Authentication modernization
- 28:40Future with Flutter
- 29:25Summary
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