Building Apps for Rural Users in Kenya
summary
Apollo Agriculture ships two Android apps: an agent workflow app and a farmer checkout app that run reliably on ~1GB devices and in the field with intermittent connectivity. The codebase moves from the Anko DSL to Jetpack Compose, a migration that takes about six to eight months for complex, server-defined forms. Expect concrete details on offline-first data sync, server-side driven UI for changing questionnaires without Play Store updates, and Jetpack Compose migration 6–8 months tradeoffs and performance fixes.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:22Kotlin adoption
- 2:45Apollo’s mobile apps
- 3:47Apollo for Kenyan farmers
- 4:50Rural app challenges
- 6:57Field testing and feedback
- 8:01Jetpack Compose adoption
- 10:10XML to Compose migration
- 10:32Server-driven UI
- 12:43Benefits of server-driven UI
- 13:24Droidcon Kenya
- 14:06Where to find the speaker online
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