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2019

  • 5 min read

Mews Challenge

At the latest WebExpo conference we had a mini-game in our booth (or 2 mini-games to be precise – tests for designers and developers). The candidate selects one right answer per question and had only one attempt to pass the test. The ranking was done by the number of correct answers and by the time (in the case of a tie).

The designer test included 20 questions where you needed to select one of 2 images that presented "the right way" and "the wrong way" from UX and UI points of view.

The developer test was more complicated. It consisted of 20 questions across all our technology stack with 4 options to choose from: C# for backend questions, JavaScript for frontend questions, Dart for mobile development, Python and SQL from Data department (if you're interested in our technology stack check out this repo).

  • 4 min read

Dependency Injection in Flutter

As I wrote in a previous article, we’re experimenting with Flutter while developing our side project for step challenges with colleagues. This side project should also be considered as a playground, where we can check if we can use Flutter in more serious projects. That’s why we want to use some approaches there that can look like an over-engineering for such a small project.

So one of the first questions was what can we use for dependency injection. A quick search in the internet revealed 2 libraries with positive reviews: get_it and kiwi. As get_it turned out to be a Service Locator (and I’m not a fan of this pattern), I was going to play with kiwi, which looked more promising, but then I’ve found another one library: inject.dart. It is heavily inspired by Dagger library, and as we use the latest one in our other Android projects, I’ve decided to dig into it.

  • 4 min read

Multi-platform apps: are we there yet?

The weekend was rather rainy, so I was playing with Flutter. Last time I’ve tried it, it was still in beta (or even alpha?), so I was interested if it finally became useful for building multi-platform apps.

I’ve decided to re-make our MileFarClub app (it’s our internal side project for tracking steps and competing with colleagues). Here’s what I was able to achieve while investing into it several hours for 2 days: