In Microsoft To Do we put a lot of work into making our features available for everyone using our apps. We discovered that the way our task reordering was implemented was not accessible and this is how we approached this problem.

Many Android applications suffer from similar Talkback issues and at Microsoft To Do we run into these often as well. We use multiple strategies to make our app more accessible. This article covers a few scenarios where Talkback experience is improved.

Does your team struggle with pull requests? Is there never enough time in the day to review others code? Do you feel like you need to keep asking your teammates for code reviews? Is the list growing everyday with no end in sight? Pull requests are hard. Our Android team at Microsoft To Do made some changes recently to improve the process. I have suggested adding labels to pull requests and this article shows my solution.

Making sure as many people as possible can use an app you are developing is so important for many of us. If you are just starting to think about accessibility in your Android app, it can be hard to understand what the requirements are and how to get started. This article will allow you to start exploring common accessibility issues in Android apps; making these small improvements will help many users of your app.

When I install Android Studio, I like to make some adjustments which help me be more productive. These are my tips for customising Android Studio.

I have attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) in 2019. I was really excited to go. It is the biggest conference for women in tech fields, named after Grace Hopper: computer scientist, admiral, inventor of the first compiler and a lot of other contributions to the fields of computing. GHC has been running since 1994, starting out with 500 attendees. In 2019, this number grew to 26000.

I have been using Kotlin for about a year now, and also started using Kotlin Android Extensions recently. These are a few of my favourite Kotlin things!

Happy 10th birthday, droidcon Berlin!

This year was droidcon Berlin’s 10th birthday and I enjoyed three days packed with all things Android. In this post, I am sharing my experience and the things which stood out to me the most.

There are many parallels to be drawn between the software development and minimalism. I have noticed that the reasons unused code keeps hanging around the software projects are the same emotional reasons which cause clutter to collect at our homes. These are the reasons I have encountered most.