Tag: Mobile
Building a Scalable and Reliable Map Interface for Drivers
In our ongoing series about rewriting the Uber driver app, engineer Chris Haugli explains how we designed the map display to be resilient, and always show the most useful information.
How to Ship an App Rewrite Without Risking Your Entire Business
Rather than shipping out our new driver app as a simple update to Android phones, Uber engineers delivered a dual binary package, enabling a safe and structured rollout of the new app while maintaining support for the previous version.
Scaling Cash Payments in Uber Eats
Uber's new driver app leverages its offline mode along with a cash-drop system organized around restaurants so that Uber Eats customers can pay for deliveries with cash.
How Uber’s New Driver App Overcomes Network Lag
In our continuing series about building our new driver app, Uber engineers discuss building its Optimistic Mode feature, which lets the app continue functioning while traversing network lag areas.
Architecting Uber’s New Driver App in RIBs
In our continuing series about building our new driver app, Uber engineers discuss designing the architecture of the mobile app using RIBs, our open source mobile development framework.
NEAL, Uber’s Open Source Language-Agnostic Linting Platform
Not Exactly a Linter (NEAL) takes code reviews one step closer to full automation by allowing engineers to write custom syntax-based rules in any language.
Playing the Perfect Game: Building Uber Eats on Android
To mark the two-year anniversary of Uber Eats, Android engineer Hilary Karls discusses how her team's commitment to "playing the perfect game" resulted in one of Uber’s most successful products.
Harnessing Code Generation to Increase Reliability & Productivity on iOS at Uber
Uber's mobile engineers leverage code generation to make our applications more reliable and boost developer productivity.
Year in Review: 2017 Highlights from Uber Open Source
As we approach the New Year, Uber Open Source revisits some of Uber Engineering's most popular projects from 2017.
Year in Review: 2017 Highlights from the Uber Engineering Blog
To ring in the New Year, the Uber Engineering Blog shares some of our editor's picks for 2017.
Unifying Mobile Onboarding Experiences at Uber
By unifying mobile onboarding experiences for our new rider app, Uber Engineering made it easier than ever before for users to "get moving."
Architecting Uber Support with Customer Obsession Engineering
Uber’s Customer Obsession team builds tools that make the customer support experience quicker and more seamless for users across our services.
Scaling Reliable Transportation for India: Meet Uber Bangalore Engineering
In this article, members of Uber Bangalore Engineering discuss their role in building reliable transportation systems at scale for India—and beyond.
Engineering NullAway, Uber’s Open Source Tool for Detecting NullPointerExceptions on Android
Uber Engineering built and open sourced NullAway, our fast and practical tool for eliminating NPEs, to help others deploy more reliable Android apps.
Meet Horovod: Uber’s Open Source Distributed Deep Learning Framework for TensorFlow
Uber Engineering introduces Horovod, an open source framework that makes it faster and easier to train deep learning models with TensorFlow.
Introducing AthenaX, Uber Engineering’s Open Source Streaming Analytics Platform
Uber Engineering built AthenaX, our open source streaming analytics platform, to bring large-scale event stream processing to everyone.
How to Have Your Software Engineering Job and Eat It Too
Uber Engineering’s Aimee Lucido reflects on how she redefined her career as a software engineer through advocacy and writing.
Deploying More Reliable Apps with Uber Engineering’s XP Background Push
Uber Engineering's XP Background Push mitigates bugs safely and efficiently in real time, facilitating more seamless user experiences on our apps.
Unpacking the Android Bundle with AutoValue Extensions at Uber Engineering
Uber Engineering's new open source tool, AutoValue: Bundle Extension, decreases the likelihood of encountering bugs by enabling Android engineers to quickly unbundle data into value classes.
Building More Reliable Apps with Uber Engineering’s Startup Reason Reporter
In this article, members of Uber’s Mobile Platform team introduce Startup Reason Reporter, our new open source tool for detecting startup reason on iOS.
