The Android QuizUp Saga

The story of creating QuizUp for Android and how the environment is today. See presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEa9dihZEs

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1. The Android QuizUp Saga Berglind Ósk Bergsdóttir b@q.is
2. The Birth • August 2012 • Math QuizUp • AndEngine, 2D OpenGL Game Engine
3. The Twilight Saga QuizUp • Crunch! • 11th November 2012 • Over million users • Bugfixes!!!
4. QuizUp family • iOS {Movies, Video Games, Basketball} QuizUp • Math QuizUp (January 2013) • NatGeo Wild (June 2013) • Picture questions
5. QuizUp 1.0 • Cross platform experiments • Native won • Social steps • Async & semi-async games
6. • More Android resources • Refactoring • Manual regression testing • QuizUp iOS November 7th 2013 • Beta group, Christmas • QuizUp Android, March 6th 2014 QuizUp 1.0 “Im suck of waiting dammit. I know you have one so just come out with it already. “
8. • Development started July 2014 • New design & new code setup • SOCIAL • Topic pages • Newsfeed • Discover People • Improved chat / search / everything! • Shipped it May 2015!! QuizUp 2.0
9. Code setup
11. Environment
13. Libraries
14. Tools and practices • Asana • project management / user stories / email / bug reports • Slack • inhouse IM • Github • PR /Code Review • HockeyApp • crash reports/inhouse qa distribution • Play Store Beta group
16. Help others learn! • Conferences (Google I/O SF 2014) • Hackathons • Engineering ReadUps • MeetUps • Learn new stuff
17. Fun in every action! • GoT themes • Theme days • Random seating lunch • Team dinners • QuizUp race, bakeoffs, ski-trips, boardgames, parties, QuizUp tournament etc. etc.
18. Questions?