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Etsy Local Goes Mobile

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:15:43 +0000

Last week my anxiety and anticipation was building, as a whole lot of work from a great team of individuals I lead at Etsy was just about to be released to the world. And that feeling is exactly what I get out of bed and go to work for.

And then we launched the all new Etsy Local home screen tab on the Etsy app the iOS and Android!

Beautiful Android Design

Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:04:43 +0000

I’m super excited and very honored that Google recently placed our latest Etsy Android app on a very short list of the best Android apps released this season.

You can read more over on the Android Developers blog and if you haven’t yet been shopping on the new Etsy for Android app on your tablet or phone, this might be just the reminder you need.

Etsy Android Staggered Grid

Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:13:24 +0000

Last week at Etsy we open sourced the staggered grid view from the new Etsy Android app. Somewhat surprisingly there’s been a large amount of interest from the Android community. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Whilst working on various apps I’ve found it challenging to implement advanced UI elements such as the staggered or masonry grid.

Thankfully I had the opportunity during a recent project at Etsy to implement this grid view that would support advanced features such as rows of varying heights & syncing row positions across orientation changes. Before deciding to develop the grid, we did of course evaluate existing options available including the unfinished StaggeredGridView in the AOSP source. In the end we came to the conclusion that if we were going to build something stable, reliable and performant it was a necessity to understand the entire scope of how the grid functioned and to achieve that we decided to develop a new component.

Dash 1.3 is out

Sat, 03 Aug 2013 04:40:47 +0000

Yep it’s here! This long awaited release of Dash for App.net brings support for private messages.

You can now chat privately with all your App.net followers, anytime, anywhere.

Better yet existing Dash Plus features such as push notifications for mentions and background updates of streams are now totally free for all. That’s pretty big news for all you Android App.net fans out there. I’ll be expanding push notifications in the coming weeks to support private messages and more. So stayed tuned.

Solving Solved Problems

Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:35:13 +0000

Last week Google simultaneously announced and released Android 4.3.

The release included a number of new features to the platform plus performance improvements. For developers it brings a number of new API’s. They also updated system images, build tools and the Android support library.

The support library exists to bring backwards-compatible support to API’s introduced in new Android versions.

Most notably this latest support library update included a new ActionBar class which allows developers to bring backwards compatible support for the ActionBar, introduced in Android 3.0 (Feb 24th 2011), to Android 2.1+.

Dash 1.0 for App.net

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:05:57 +0000

Over the last few weeks, while working on bringing the latest and greatest features to Hooha, I’ve kept a constant focus on user feedback.

The biggest piece of feedback received was “Love the app, hate the name”.

I felt this update released today, which brings the app out of beta, was an appropriate time to spend some effort on the brand. Working together with my good friend Toby Simm (Simmple) on branding and graphic design, I’m pleased to bring the new and improved Dash for App.net.