Rethinking BlaBlaCar's app architecture

Growing an app and a team can be quite a challenge. BlaBlaCar’s app has been live for more than 3 years and the android team kept on growing. In this talk we will present our ideas for rethinking BlaBlaCar’s app architecture to lighten the app, isolate major components of our business and work with a team of ten on the same repository.

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1. Rethinking our app
2. Alexandra TRITZ Android dev - Monetize tribe France @LexouThirteen
3. Pierrick CAEN Android dev -Trust tribe France @prcaen
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5. We are in 22 countries
6. Our growth Following massive adoption in France, BlaBlaCar has expanded in 22 countries: January 2009 December 2009 May 2012 October 2012 April 2013 Februar y 2014 September 2014 January 2015 March 2015 April 2015 December 2015 January 2016 First employee in France Launch in Spain Launch in Italy Launch in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland & Portugal Launch in Germany Launch in Ukraine & Russia Launch in Turkey Launch in India Launch in Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Serbia Launch in Mexico Launch in Brazil Launch in Czech Republic and Slovakia June 2011 Launch in UK
7. 12 Android developers
8. 8 teams
9. One codebase
10. Code legacy
11. Increasing compilation time
12. Hard to maintain
13. What we’ve already done
14. Revamp our UI
17. + Retrofit 2 Rx
18. Dagger 2
20. + HockeyApp Continuous deployment
21. What about the future?
22. Split all features into libraries
24. APP Ratings ID Check Search Offer a ride Payment ... Core API
25. APP Ratings ID Check Search Offer a ride Payment ... Core API Trust Mobile Fundations Monetize Growth
26. All tests in Kotlin
27. Most components tested
29. Thanks! Follow us @BlaBlaCarTech