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Animate on a Path with Android Jetpack Compose UI

Animate on a Path with Android Jetpack Compose UI

This tutorial showcases Android’s Jetpack Compose UI ability to animate an image on a path. In our example, we demonstrate an arrow flying…
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Phil Boyd
How We Open Sourced An ESLint Plugin for Internationalization At OkCupid

How We Open Sourced An ESLint Plugin for Internationalization At OkCupid

We developers often find ourselves faced with a problem that seems general enough and common enough that someone else could have already…
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Xiaoyun Yang
Cloud Native File Integrity Monitoring

Cloud Native File Integrity Monitoring

We at OkCupid are actively engaged in migrating our data centers to AWS’ cloud environment. As we’re going through this migration, we’re…
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Sammy Tbeile
A Guide To Writing A Robust Cross-Platform Implementation Plan

A Guide To Writing A Robust Cross-Platform Implementation Plan

Learn how OkCupid’s Tech Design Process helps developers eliminate uncertainties and generate accurate estimates.
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Claire Katherine Lynch
Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 1: Understanding Different Cultures

Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 1: Understanding Different Cultures

Learn how to internationalize your app from a technical perspective and how to think globally about different cultures from around the…
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Nick Brandt
Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 2: Web Tooling

Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 2: Web Tooling

Learn how to pick the right tools to support a modern React web app with legacy HTML templated components.
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Nick Brandt
Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 3: Technical Challenges

Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 3: Technical Challenges

Learn how to solve for the various nuances of language. This includes pluralization, accessibility considerations, date formats, and more!
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Nick Brandt
Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 4: Maintainability and Scalability

Internationalizing and Localizing Your App, Part 4: Maintainability and Scalability

Learn how to internationalize your app at scale with a Translation Management Service (TMS)
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Nick Brandt
Migrating Your App to Swift Package Modules Tutorial Part 2

Migrating Your App to Swift Package Modules Tutorial Part 2

Learn how to pass information and communicate between Swift Package Manager Modules.
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Dmitri Fuerle
Migrating Your App to Swift Package Modules Tutorial Part 1

Migrating Your App to Swift Package Modules Tutorial Part 1

Learn in this tutorial the first step towards migrating your app’s native code to Swift Package Modules.
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Dmitri Fuerle
Modeling UI States in A React Form Component Using A Finite State Machine

Modeling UI States in A React Form Component Using A Finite State Machine

A finite state machine (FSM) is an architectural design pattern that allows us to model a large system as a collection of loosely coupled…
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Xiaoyun Yang
Large-scale collaborative filtering to predict who on OkCupid will like you*, with JAX**

Large-scale collaborative filtering to predict who on OkCupid will like you*, with JAX**

* your likeability not guaranteed, but we will try ** JAX is experimental and not an officially supported Google product. Version lock…
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Zachary Jablons
The Shadow Request: Troubleshooting OkCupid’s First GraphQL Release

The Shadow Request: Troubleshooting OkCupid’s First GraphQL Release

As we were building our GraphQL API in a totally new stack, we wanted to see how it would measure up against our previous REST API with a…
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Michael P. Geraci
Moving OkCupid from REST to GraphQL

Moving OkCupid from REST to GraphQL

A lot has been written about the benefits of moving from a REST API to a GraphQL API¹. But let’s say that you’re already convinced. If you…
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Michael P. Geraci
An Intro Guide to Protocol vs Object-Oriented Programming

An Intro Guide to Protocol vs Object-Oriented Programming

The objective of this post is to compare some of the differences between object-oriented programming and protocol-oriented programming…
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Bruno Agatte
Vespa vs. Elasticsearch for matching millions of people

Vespa vs. Elasticsearch for matching millions of people

As a dating application, an integral part of the experience is in recommending to you great potential matches based on the myriad of…
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Eddie Ng
Android Improved Localization With Custom TextView Effects

Android Improved Localization With Custom TextView Effects

We have started the process of making our application more internationalization friendly. That typically requires the removal of all…
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Anton Begeima
Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management

Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management

Here at OkCupid, we’re pretty big fans of using GraphQL. When it comes to fetching data on any of our client platforms, the abstraction…
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Nick Brandt
Improve Android Testability with Fakes and Factories

Improve Android Testability with Fakes and Factories

Legacy code exists in the codebases of many companies. Often within, there are anti-patterns that can cause roadblocks during development.
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Brian Plummer
Using Fakes To Test Reactive Flows

Using Fakes To Test Reactive Flows

Unlike mocks, fake implementations give us full control of our dependencies in unit tests, allowing us to accurately and thoroughly test…
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OkCupid Tech Team
Cutting Through the Static — Find and Fix Issues the Smart Way with Android Studio Static Code…

Cutting Through the Static — Find and Fix Issues the Smart Way with Android Studio Static Code…

Did you know that Android Studio has static code analysis built in? You can run this tool using the inspect code dialog. When launched you…
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Brian Plummer
It’s OK to Choose SwiftUI and UIKit

It’s OK to Choose SwiftUI and UIKit

By now, you have heard of SwiftUI… this new, declarative, and “exceptionally simple” way of building user interfaces for Apple devices…
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Joel
Glow-Up: Bringing a Teenaged Website into the Modern World of SPA

Glow-Up: Bringing a Teenaged Website into the Modern World of SPA

What many SPA discussions don’t take into account is just how arduous a process it can be to migrate to a single page architecture…
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OkCupid Tech Team
Monitoring Performance the Easy Way: HAProxy to the Rescue

Monitoring Performance the Easy Way: HAProxy to the Rescue

Monitoring is a fundamentally difficult problem, which is annoying because it sounds like it should be easy. We built this service or…
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Sammy Tbeile
You Can’t Spell Update Without Date — A Guide to Getting Users to Update to Your Latest Release

You Can’t Spell Update Without Date — A Guide to Getting Users to Update to Your Latest Release

OkCupid’s Android team releases new features and bug fixes every week. In a short amount of time the app can see an improvement in…
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Shantal Taveras
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