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How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic October 17th, 2019

State machines – they’ve been around for a long time in computer science, but are perhaps forgotten in the last few decades, at least in mobile apps. My team at Wayfair chose to revisit state machines and give them a try in our production app. This is how we came…

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This Week I Learned: Sharing My Learnings As I Navigate A New Language and Codebase

This Week I Learned: Sharing My Learnings As I Navigate A New Language and Codebase

David Alkire David Alkire July 24th, 2019

About a year ago I decided to change careers, somewhat. I was a full-stack engineer on Wayfair’s Room Planner project when I chose to try iOS development. Room Planner is a feature that lets users design their space by placing products in a virtual room. I joined the iOS side…

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Getting The Most Out of XML and Exploring Anko Layouts for Android

Getting The Most Out of XML and Exploring Anko Layouts for Android

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic June 11th, 2019

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) – are they worth the hype? In a recent investigation, our Berlin-based Android Team were looking to further optimize Wayfair’s Android app, and were looking around for options. With the inconvenience of creating a UI in XML, and the appeal of a language that focuses on a…

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My First Six Months at Wayfair: Listening, Planning, and Setting Ourselves Up For Growth

My First Six Months at Wayfair: Listening, Planning, and Setting Ourselves Up For Growth

Arnaud Lucas Arnaud Lucas May 15th, 2019

When it comes to mobile platforms, Wayfair has multiple end user focused apps across iOS and Android, with over 100 engineers working on them. As the recently appointed lead of the App Team here at Wayfair, I chose to ask fairly generic yet consistent questions upon my arrival to get…

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Open Tracing for iOS: A Performance Tool for Everyone

Open Tracing for iOS: A Performance Tool for Everyone

Simon-Pierre Roy Simon-Pierre Roy May 10th, 2019 Avatar Aaron Sky May 10th, 2019 Peter Tomaselli Peter Tomaselli May 10th, 2019

The App Platforms Team at Wayfair, empowering a team of more than 60 mobile developers with efficient tooling and processes, has been actively looking at the performance of it’s mobile offerings, turning this into more focused work in the past few months. We wanted to involve as many of the…

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iOS at Scale: Modularization of the Wayfair App

iOS at Scale: Modularization of the Wayfair App

Brad Smith Brad Smith October 18th, 2018 Sean Scalabrini Sean Scalabrini October 18th, 2018

Here at Wayfair, we are faced with challenges that the average iOS developer likely never has to come across. In the last eight months, we’ve had 47 different developers make 2,000 commits into our repository. Over the past six years, this monumental amount of changes has led to a codebase…

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Building a Composable, Flexible, and Functional Layout in our iOS App

Building a Composable, Flexible, and Functional Layout in our iOS App

Peter Tomaselli Peter Tomaselli March 22nd, 2018

The Wayfair iOS app aims to have complete feature-parity with our website. This means that we need to support a variety of screen sizes and orientations in ways that — at least from an iOS frameworks point-of-view — are “custom”. To be specific, we need to support three distinctly different…

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How We’re Using Codable Protocol in Swift 4

How We’re Using Codable Protocol in Swift 4

Jayesh Kawli Jayesh Kawli March 7th, 2018

At Wayfair, we’re keen to research, innovate, and invest in new technologies whenever the  opportunity arises. There are obvious advantages to this approach for our iOS teams in particular: It allows us to keep up to date with current developments and be prepared for potential API updates. This is particularly…

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Kotlin and JaCoCo: Will They Blend?

Kotlin and JaCoCo: Will They Blend?

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic February 6th, 2018 Avatar Michael DeMaso February 6th, 2018

Kotlin… Developers are clamoring for it. Some are calling it the future of Android Development. Others are claiming it lacks the tooling to make it “production” ready. At Wayfair, we decided to give Kotlin a try and come to our own conclusions. Initially, we used it for our “debug” features….

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Mobile Development Tech Talk Series, second installment

Ben Clark Ben Clark August 25th, 2014

Wayfair’s mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the second of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair’s mobile applications.  The event will be held at Wayfair’s new offices, 4 Copley Place, on Tuesday, September 9th, from 6 pm to 7:30.  Pizza will be served.  Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite…

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Mobile Development Tech Talk Series

Ben Clark Ben Clark July 28th, 2014

Wayfair’s mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the first of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair’s mobile applications.  The event will be held at Wayfair’s new offices, 4 Copley Place, on August 5th, from 6 pm to 7:30.  Pizza will be served.  It should be a great talk, in…

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