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Chris Mathew
Tuning Android build nodes for maximum throughput
Introduction Our Android team uses Gradle as our build tool of choice. Gradle offers lots of options for tuning its resource consumption, giving engineers an opportunity to optimize performance for running tasks on well-known hardware. In this post, we’ll explore how the team tuned our Gradle setup for Amazon’s m7i.8xlarge EC2 instances. General concepts Before… Read more
Sean Amos
Automating Exhaustive Branch Coverage for Sealed Types in Kotlin
We take code correctness and code quality seriously at Wealthfront. One of the most effective ways we ensure that our code is correct is through rigorous unit testing and strong typing. In Kotlin, sealed classes and sealed interfaces offer a powerful tool to model restricted class hierarchies. They provide strong guarantees about the types in… Read more
Cameron Greene
Going Edge-to-Edge: How Android SDK 35 Modernizes the Wealthfront App
One of our core engineering principles at Wealthfront is maintaining a high standard of quality and platform infrastructure, and that includes keeping our platforms up to date on the latest releases. On Android, this means keeping our targetSdk up to date, which provides Wealthfront’s Android users with the latest security and platform stability features, as… Read more
Gerin Amalaraj
Speed up your Android Tests Part 2: End to End Test Filtering
End to end (E2E) tests play a crucial role in ensuring software quality and when implemented effectively, can eliminate the need for manual testing (see our engineering principles). However E2E tests are notoriously slow since they often involve navigating through multiple screens, making API calls, and running on real devices. In our previous blog post,… Read more
Gerin Amalaraj
Speed Up Your Android Tests: Gradle Plugin for Unit Test Filtering
Writing tests is a fundamental part of writing good software. They help us to catch bugs, be confident in our changes and serve as documentation. At Wealthfront, our Android team relies heavily on our automated test suite to maintain productivity and code quality — until we hit a snag. With our codebase maturing and our… Read more
Niu Guangyuan
Streamlining Asynchronous Programming on Android
Background Asynchronous programming plays a vital role in mobile development, ensuring that applications remain responsive to user input even while fetching data from databases or networks. At Wealthfront, we heavily rely on asynchronous programming for making network calls to the Wealthfront API server on Android. Initially, RxJava was the go-to choice for this purpose, serving… Read more