Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social – Medium

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Pinned

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Anatomy of a .gitignore

What’s in a .gitignore file? And what SHOULD be there instead? Become a master at pretending files don’t exist and learn some neat tricks!

3 min readMay 13, 2022

--

Anatomy of a .gitignore

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social
in
{ dev → tips() }

Mocks, fakes and stubs: the stunt doubles of testing

When testing, you may have heard of fakes, stubs, mocks: what are they? Which one is the best choice? Let’s find with some examples.

4 min readApr 1, 2021

--

Mocks, fakes and stubs: the stunt doubles of testing

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

So, JCenter is shutting down…

JCenter and Bintray are shutting down. What does that mean for you? Is there anything you need to do, now?

2 min readFeb 23, 2021

--

So, JCenter is shutting down…

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Better video and audio from home? Sure can do.

Want to take your remote conferencing to the next level? Here’s how to improve your home audio and video setup.

2 min readJul 24, 2020

--

Part of my home studio audio setup: a microphone on an arm

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Squanchy and Firestore rules — a security post-mortem

How we found, and fixed, a security issue leading to potential PII leaking in Squanchy, our FOSS conference platform.

8 min readApr 16, 2019

--

Squanchy and Firestore rules — a security post-mortem

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Calling for papers: Droidcon Turin 2019

A retrospective on the Droidcon Turin 2019 Call For Papers.

7 min readFeb 6, 2019

--

Calling for papers: Droidcon Turin 2019

--

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social
in
{ dev → tips() }

Playing with elevation in Android 🥧 (part 2)

Now that we know the new APIs in Pie, we can work around their limitations to get all trippy…

4 min readNov 6, 2018

--

6

Playing with elevation in Android 🥧 (part 2)

--

6

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social
in
{ dev → tips() }

Playing with elevation in Android 🥧 (part 1)

With Android Pie we gained the ability to tint our shadows. This mini-series looks into how this works and how to make the most of it.

5 min readNov 6, 2018

--

1

Playing with elevation in Android 🥧 (part 1)

--

1

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social
in
{ dev → tips() }

Kotlin and Android #3 — know your properties

tl;dr Kotlin properties are awesome and super powerful, but each form comes with a bunch of gotchas. Make sure you fully understand them…

4 min readSep 13, 2018

--

2

Kotlin and Android #3 — know your properties

--

2

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social
in
{ dev → tips() }

Kotlin and Android #2 — Treacherous properties

Sometimes using a property can result in a confusing and dangerous API.

3 min readSep 6, 2018

--

2

Kotlin and Android #2 — Treacherous properties

--

2

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

Sebastiano Poggi — seb@androiddev.social

"It depends" 🤷‍♂️ - UXE on Android Studio at Google. A geek 🤓 who has a serious thing for good design ✨ and for emojis 🤟 Personal opinions only 😁

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams