Infinum Android - So Long, and Thanks for All the Bytes

is with very mixed feelings that I am leaving Google (as in, leaving right now — today is my last day). Or perhaps I should say instead “leaving Android” since I have always felt very much part of the Android team and very much ignorant of the rest of the company.

Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superior media experiences, minimize battery impact, maximize smooth app performance, and protect user privacy and security all on the most diverse lineup of devices out there.

I know that crashes are scary. They inconvenience our fellow engineers. They inconvenience users. They trigger loud workstreams where people run around with their hair on fire trying to understand what the problem is. But...

This new API makes it easy to add advanced document scanning capabilities with a high-quality and consistent user interface to your Android app. The ML Kit Document Scanner API enables your users to quickly and easily digitize paper documents.

I see a lot of startups still use Scrum in their engineering teams. Given that Scrum's public history goes way back to 1995, I'm astounded by the fact that the words "Scrum" and "startup" so often come up in the same sentence with a positive correlation even in 2019, so I decided to write this blog post.