Chess.com's Android app, which is used by about three hundred thousand people daily, and a million monthly, and who speak over 69 languages, is get...
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I love this post. Really great primer on how this process comes to happen.
Thank you! I was worried it might come across as promotional, but really I'm just excited to get to work on a greenfield project and do things "right" from the start.
Nah, great overview. It's not like you're out here pushing stuff on us. Everybody here writes code for some company and it's natural to make it part of the story. As you've done here, when your intentions are to write something useful, it comes across.
BTW it would be awesome if, from time to time, you were able to update dev.to with the progress of the rewrite (barring trade secrets obviously :-))
I intend to! I'd like to publish every couple weeks. I have several planned posts, including: Kotlin, Moshi, dagger.android, Room, the Paging lib, static analysis & CI, etc etc....
I'm super interested in this!
I'm currently redoing all the exercises that are part of Udacity's Android Basics courses with Kotlin and I bet I can learn a bunch from you :)
Terrific story and good luck for the rewrite :-)
Are you also planning to adapt Android Architecture Components while re-writing app? What architecture does Chess.com use now(MVP/MVVM/MVI or something else) and planning to make architecture change?
Heh, great question. The current app, as noted, has been around for a while. So, for various reasons I won't go into, it's largely a Big Ball of Mud. Over the past couple of years we've engaged in a huge refactoring effort to convert parts of it to a hand-rolled MVP pattern, but it's been hard going. Moving forward, we're adopting the new Android Architectural Components with ViewModels, Room, LiveData, etc. We already have a few features in the current app utilizing this pattern, and so far, we're really impressed.
Great intro post! Really looking forward to the future posts about the re-write of one of my most used Android apps. Especially as I'm starting to dabble in Kotlin myself. Nice work 👍
Excellent post Tony. I usually play on chess.com website but I also have the android app and it's great! My question is how are they planning on minimizing the delay between moves?
Do you mean between the current version available in the Play Store and the rewrite version? We're continuing to update the current version for a few months, most likely, with several big features nearly complete and ready to roll out to our beta community.
Great post. Really looking forward to the new app.
Are you using an agile framework like Scrum for development? If not, are you planning to use one for the app redesign? Just curious!
We actually already employ a modified kanban process, which we'll be continuing for the rewrite project.
Wow I use a lot chess.com Android app and I can't wait that you start to share the process of the new one. Feel free to contact me as a tester :D although I'm a very bad player I love this game.
Hahaha... I'll see what Hikaru thinks ;-)