Caring for your dependency garden: An approach to Android Dependency Management

Part 4: Pulling out the weeds — Suspicious and vulnerable dependencies

When building Android apps we also need to keep on top of any dependencies we add or update to make sure we are not including anything we don’t intend to.

August 8, 2022 · Bilue Product Design & Technology Blog

Caring for your dependency garden: An approach to Android Dependency Management

Part 3: Get out your pruning shears — Detecting unused & incorrectly configured dependencies in Android

See how we prune the dependencies we don’t need and correctly include the ones we do using some useful gradle plugins.

August 1, 2022 · Bilue Product Design & Technology Blog

Caring for your dependency garden: An approach to Android Dependency Management

Part 2: Replanting the annuals: Is it time to update that dependency?

How to use the Gradle Versions Plugin to find out what Android app dependencies are ready to update and automate this using your CI/CD process.

July 25, 2022 · Bilue Product Design & Technology Blog

Caring for your dependency garden: An approach to Android Dependency Management

Part 1: Preparing your garden bed — Consistency is best & general tips

Let’s look at some excellent gradle plugins, CI/CD features and tips and tricks to make dependency management as easy and predictable as possible!

July 18, 2022 · Bilue Product Design & Technology Blog

How to version your app in a continuous development world

Let's focus on build version numbers

Advice on how to manage mobile app versioning - specifically build version numbers.

November 26, 2021 · Bilue Product Design & Technology Blog