Android Community Month at Delivery Hero
Article Summary
Sid Patil from Delivery Hero shares how his team turned Droidcon Berlin into a masterclass on scaling Android apps across 50 countries. Over 300 developers stopped by their booth to learn what it takes to build at this level.
Delivery Hero's Android team went all-in on community engagement during their Android Community Month in July 2022. They sponsored Droidcon Berlin, delivered three technical talks, and hosted local meetups to share hard-won lessons from managing 13 brands across 50 countries.
Key Takeaways
- 1,500 engineers attended Droidcon where Delivery Hero presented three technical talks
- Custom crash reporting dashboards beat off-the-shelf tools for multi-brand scale
- Modularization strategies shared for transforming monolith apps into scalable codebases
- Hosted Berlindroid meetup with Google Developer Experts on Android development realities
Delivery Hero demonstrated how operating at massive scale (13 brands, 50 countries) drives innovation in crash reporting, modularization, and Material You implementation.
About This Article
Delivery Hero runs 13 different Android brands across 50 countries. Managing app crashes at this scale is incredibly complex.
Tahsin Dane and Sevan Acemoglu built custom crash-reporting techniques and dashboards that worked better than existing tools for handling large volumes of crash data.
Over 300 developers came to Delivery Hero's booth at Droidcon Berlin to learn about their crash-reporting and modularization strategies for building scalable Android apps.