engineering We went to Google I/O 2018, here's what we are excited about As every year, a selection of Novoda team members headed to Shoreline Amphitheatre last week for Google I/O 2018. They attended sessions, talked to Googlers about our clients' problems and needs. Here's what they found exciting.
engineering Using TalkBack (II) Did you think I forgot? đŸ˜… Part two will introduce some more gestures as well as some advanced TalkBack usage. Continuing from our last post from the Using TalkBack series, we'll
product & design Accessibility Sessions at Google I/O 2017 There were three recorded accessibility sessions at Google I/O this year, with three additional "office hours" with Google's accessibility experts for those lucky enough to attend. Read
engineering Using TalkBack (I) At Novoda, we maintain a competency or skills matrix for each of our projects. We rate ourselves in areas of the project or technology, from one to four, and this
testing & QA Testing Views in Isolation with Espresso In this post, we'll show you how and why you should use Espresso to test your custom Views on an Android device. Note: this blogpost refers to an old version of the espresso-support library. The latest version can be found at its GitHub repo.
testing & QA Making your Android Apps More Inclusive with accessibilitools accessibilitools 1.4.0 was released a few weeks ago. In this post, I'll share what this small set of classes consists of and how you can use it to
engineering Customising usage hints for Android TalkBack In this post, you'll discover how to provide usage hints for visually impaired users and customise built-in ones to suit your app. TalkBack offers a set of usage hints which
product & design UX for Missing Content Descriptions We know it's important to add content descriptions, but what happens when you don't? In this post, we look at a TalkBack feature designed to help users provide their own
engineering Top 3 Android Studio Shortcuts - Ataul Everyone likes to increase their productivity and everyone has their own favourite productivity hacks, but not everyone agrees! In this blog, Ataul will talk about his top three Android Studio
product & design Designing alternative interfaces: a Tweet view with custom actions The Google+ Android team have been focusing a lot recently on improving TalkBack support. In this post, I'll explain one of my favourite features, custom actions, and how you can
testing & QA Having Trouble Focusing? A Primer on Focus in Android Designing for non-touch users means ensuring two things: access and feedback. As always, it's a case of identifying user journeys and making sure they are achievable by your target users.
product & design Designing Android Apps For Vision Impaired Users Making your app suitable for vision impaired users is part of a larger topic on developing accessible apps. Although Android isn't as well regarded as iOS for its support of
Collapsing AppBarLayout on Android TV CoordinatorLayout has really made it easy to perform animations for elements that are dependent on one another, but not all of the behaviours work out of the box for Android
Wutson: Exploring Design And Development Workflows At this month's Londroid, Qi and I presented Wutson - an app we've been working on since the start of this year. We share our workflow describing how we worked
Maintaining String Resources with Translation in Mind Translation and localization is a vital part of any growing app. It is, however, time-consuming—often being carried out in disjointed phases and as such it’s all too often
Novoda in Italy: ESA AppCamp 2014 One month on, we look back to September when Novoda were selected to join four other teams at ESRIN in Italy to take part in the third annual ESA App
