By Nate Ebel, Staff Software Engineer Most Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile sample projects follow the same project structure — an Android project directory, an iOS project directory, and a common module shared between them in a single mono repo.

by Nate Ebel, Android Engineer In January of 2021, we pushed the initial commit for our mobile-shared repo — a new Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) initiative within the mobile engineering team here at Premise. Fast forward to 2022, and our usage of Kotlin Multiplatform has increased along with our confidence in…

by Nate Ebel, Android Engineer Our mobile team here at Premise uses Firebase for a number of things, the most heavily used feature being Firebase Remote Config. We use Remote Config to control feature flags. …

by Nate Ebel, Android Developer The buildSrc directory of a Gradle project is a special directory that is treated as an included build and provides a convenient location to store common or complex build logic used throughout your Gradle project. …

By Nate Ebel, Android Developer The Mobile Engineering team here at Premise has made a concerted effort to improve developer efficiency over the past year. One of the biggest areas of tech investment has been into understanding and reducing the Gradle build times of our Android project. We worked with…

By Nate Ebel, Android Developer As Kotlin continuously evolves and adds new features, development teams can’t always keep up. …

Kotlin vs Java? Which language is best for Android development in 2021? New Android developers want to know which language they should learn for building modern Android applications. …

Unsurprisingly, when discussing take-home assignments for coding interviews, much of the focus is put on code. Can you code? Are you using “best practices?” What tools are you using?. There’s lots of code-related things that people think about, or even stress about. Unfortunately, non-coding tips for coding interview assignments don’t…

Are your Android Gradle builds ever slower than you expect? Sometimes even painfully slow? I think most Android devs have felt this at one point or another, and many engineers spend countless hours optimizing Gradle builds to improve the productivity of mobile dev teams. Unfortunately, sometimes, even a well-optimized Gradle…