Badoo
We're the team behind some of the world’s biggest dating brands, including Badoo, Bumble, Lumen and Chappy, and our products are used by over 500 million people worldwide.
As one of the leading tech companies in Europe, we’re constantly growing, investing and innovating to provide the best technology and user experience for our community, because we believe that happiness is better shared.
Our Engineering Team is made up of over 280 Agile people, and each team releases new and improved features every week! They are fast, innovative and creative, and their work impacts hundreds of millions of people every day. To find out more, you can check out our tech blog here, and peruse our OpenSource projects here.
Upcoming Events
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droidcon London 2019
Two days in London
Take your Android development skills to new levels at droidcon London 2019, the biggest Android developer conference in Europe.
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Mutative Design - Design for the "User", not "Users"
Featuring Faiz Malkani
Focus on the user, all else will follow. The splendid user-centric ideology strongly advocated by the Google Design team that - at a glance - makes perfect sense, but take a step back.
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Upgrading Android App Unit tests to Mockito 2.x
Featuring Hazem Saleh
Mockito 2.x solves many problems that most of the Android developers were having in their tests in Mockito 1.x. But what if you are having today large tests written in Mockito 1.x and PowerMock, will it be an easy task to migrate?
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Modularization - How Hard Can It Be?
Featuring Elin Nilsson
Modularizing Android codebases are all the hype these days. It can be as simple as moving a few files, and maybe creating a new build config or two along the way, or it can be much more gruelling.
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Machine Learning on Android: TensorFlow Lite
Featuring Laurence Moroney
Your next mobile app may not be coded traditionally and may be a machine-learned model.
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Why a Whole Country Skipped a Day: Fun with Timezones and Locales
Featuring Kai Koenig
The correct handling of timezones and locales is one of the most under-appreciated parts of software development. Commonly known as internationalisation (i18n), a lot of people underestimate the impact that getting it wrong can have for your users as well as your systems.
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Kotlinise your Gradle Build Scripts and Plugins
Featuring Marcin Koziński
Are you using Gradle to build your Android app? Are you writing Gradle plug-ins? You'll be delighted to learn you can do it in Kotlin and it'll make your life better
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Hunting Android Malware
Featuring Chris Le Roy
Android malware is a continuing problem in the Android ecosystem, even after 9 major Android releases. Android currently relies on implicit and explicit user participation to identify malicious applications, both on the Playstore and on devices.
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Cryptic to Clean: Architecture for Projects that Never Quite got around to it
Featuring Catalina Chioveanu and Andrew Fulcher
Clean architecture is increasingly popular in Android development, and you’ve probably seen elegant examples of it in inspiring talks and blog posts by experts in the field.
But what about the app your team works on? The one that was started in a hurry, with the intention of doing it right later...
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Android Autofill: 10 ways to optimize your app for a better user experience
Featuring Felipe Leme
The Android 8.0 release introduced the Autofill Framework, a secure and efficient way to enable password managers to automatically enter user data into other apps.
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