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By Hannah Blumberg At Khan Academy, (nearly) every piece of code that goes into our codebase has been reviewed by at least one other person. Code reviews help us keep code maintainable and clean, …
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By Jared Forsyth Over the past few months, we’ve been adding some React Native to our existing iOS and Android apps. We started out by just creating a react-native repository and adding it as a …
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By Bryan Clark One of the more tedious design tasks is keeping your App Store promo images up-to-date. As you add localization support and new features, it can mean taking a few days of a …
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By Charlie Marsh App size is important to us. As a team striving to deliver a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, it’s essential that we build an app our learners can download and keep …
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By Bryan Clark Today, we’re releasing SwiftTweaks, a way to adjust your Swift-based iOS app without needing to recompile. Your users won’t see your animation study, Sketch comps, or prototypes. …
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By Ben Komalo The journey of a thousand miles… In March, 2015—almost 1 year ago to the day—we started developing our first Android app at Khan Academy. A single step By then, Android was on version …