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Android craftsmanship stories
Offline, you can't wait for a server to hand you an id. The client mints it at creation — a random UUID — so a new entity is addressable immediately, referenceable by the very next offline action. That one move deletes temporary ids and a whole class of reference-rewrite bugs.
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Offline-First KMP
When your mobile app must work without internet as a standard — not an edge case — picking the right sync layer becomes the most critical architectural decision. Here is how we evaluated the landscape.
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Your API key is not a secret
We have been hiding API keys in Android apps for a decade — with BuildConfig tricks, NDK, obfuscation libraries. None of it works. The fix is not better hiding; it is treating the key as a public identifier and proving the app is genuine instead.
Share iOs string resources with Android
There might be a requirement for mobile string resources to be defined or adjusted by management or copywriters. There also might be a requirement to add localization later by those roles. And on top of that strings should be synced across platforms.