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I’ve been more or less mute for the last four weeks because I somehow managed to get an injury inside my throat. Not being able to talk means going out and meeting people is not much fun (wonder what that says about...

In June 2018, Quintype approached Uncommon to help them improve the performance of their reader-facing web frontend as well as their customer engagement platform.With Uncommon’s guidance, Quintype achieved the...

Every aspect of uncommon is an opportunity to apply design thinking to situations and our infrastructure is no exception: we live on the internet —and therefore, our internet should always be alive. When it was time...

We are very pleased to welcome Vikalp Gupta to the Bangalore Design team.Vikalp, playing PUBG in real life.Vikalp graduated from IIT Roorkee with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He was an early member of the...

We’re pleased to welcome Rakshak R. Hegde to our Bengaluru Engineering team. He joins us as an Android engineer, continuing to help our clients architect clean, testable apps.Rakshak was born and raised in Bengaluru....

Over the last three months, we’ve been busy at work setting up our new, Central Bangalore office.Uncommon's new office is coming up nicely. — @SaketmeWe’re finally settled in, and we’d love you to come by...

Spans in Android are something that don’t get as much attention as they deserve for how widely they’re used across the platform. I was fortunate to be able to talk about them at Droidcon San Francisco this year.Do...

React Native is a fantastic technology that is quickly becoming popular and is fundamentally changing how companies build mobile applications and share common code across platforms.Official guide has good documentation...

One of my favourite navigation libraries in React Native community is react-native-navigation by Wix. This is a brilliant library that embraces native navigation instead of pure JS based implementations. It is powerful...

setState(..) is the most fundamental call in any RN Component. Often, you notice a pattern where child component’s state is derived from props received from parent component. This quickly becomes unmanageable once...

ViewPager w/ TabLayout in action.Tab based swiping is a common pattern in Android. We were recently working on a grocery store application; our Android design included tabs to show multiple sub categories of a...

A guide to SortedList (part 5/5) — PaginationIndexPart 1 — Replacing ArrayList with SortedListPart 2 — Deep dive into data operationsPart 3 — Separation of data and view concernsPart...

List grouped by various criteriaA guide to SortedList (part 4/5) — Section ListsIndexPart 1 — Replacing ArrayList with SortedListPart 2 — Deep dive into data operationsPart 3 — Separation of...

One of the methods we use a lot in our everyday battles with Android is findViewById(). It lets us find Views from layouts written in XML and returns a reference to their Java objects. And yet we know very little about...

Images rendered on various devices.Mobile devices come in multiple screen resolutions. When we display images it is important to ensure that the images displayed are optimized for screen resolution. This will ensure...

A guide to SortedList (bonus) — Deep dive into data operations through JUnit4 testsscreenshot of passing testsIndexPart 1 — Replacing ArrayList with SortedListPart 2 — Deep dive into data...

Combine the master branch, feature branches and git describe till you have a smooth mixture. Serve hot.If your Android application release cycle involves someone creating a production build by hand, chances are (that...

IndexPart 1 — Replacing ArrayList with SortedListPart 2 — Deep dive into data operationsIn part 1 of our SortedList series, we looked at the basics of the API and the advantages it offers over a simple...

Our design lead at uncommon Dhruv Saxena has written this wonderful post about how he uses tools like Framer to build a comprehensive prototype of his designs. In the post he details out an approach to implementing a...

Working with RecyclerView and its adapters is not complicated as long as your data is simple and static. But if you have content that changes over time, you might run into cases of incorrect item positioning and might...