Category: DaLumino Development

  • Day 20: Ad Mobs Everywhere

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we spent our time looking at and inserting a banner Ad into the app and fixing an assumption. This ended up being straightforward as Google Ad Mob provided test ads while we waited for our account to become live. We played around with several…

  • Day 19: Saving State!

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we finally made it back around to saving state.  And it was a really valuable learning lesson as we found some neat hacks for SharedPreferences. Firstly understanding what we needed out of it:Save state of groups/devices ie. labels and associationsand what SharedPreferences doesProvides a…

  • Day 18: And, we’re back!

    📊 Daily Stand-Up: Last we talked we had a few things left on our todo list. * Advertising* Loading screen* Saving of local state (we never circled back to SharedPreferences vs local storage)* Inserting of client logos/branding* Ability to change background* Deploying to stores As the Product Manager, we used…

  • Day 17: Happy Holidays!

    Day 17: Happy Holidays! Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we focused on the remaining feedback items and fixed our error handling! We didn’t get an opportunity to look at the advertising. So what’s left, (at a high level)?* Advertising* Loading screen* Saving of local state (we never circled back…

  • Day 16: Focused on the Feedback

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we stepped into our Delivery Manager role and put some estimates on the feedback items we got from our customer. We estimated these to be small, T-Shirt size. Yesterday we spent most of our time in the Lead Engineer role. We looked at the feature…

  • Day 15: The customer meeting!

    Hi Friends. 📊 Daily Stand-Up:  Last Thursday we meet with the client and talked through our questions and learned a lot. Some of the highlights from the customer: This is great; you’ve exceeded my expectations.To me an app has to be completely intuitive for me to like it.While I like…

  • Day 14: Skip day

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we prepped for a client meeting but our client had to switch it last minute to today. Though we were able to confirm they received and downloaded our firebase release! So as the Lead Engineer we continued getting frustrated with our audio feature. In…

  • Day 13: PM Time!

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up:  Yesterday we continued evaluating libraries for our audio feature and stepped into our PM role and drew up questions to ask our client in the call. The goal of these questions is to validate our assumptions against the requirements our client provided to us. This…

  • Day 12: Mic Check 1, 2

    Hi Friends! 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Yesterday we evaluated some libraries to capture audio and tested them, primarily two (check out the resources). First we drew up a list of our requirements and then evaluated the two libraries against them: * Needs to sample sound from the mic at a rate…

  • Day 11: Isolates!

    Hi Friends. 📊 Daily Stand-Up: Friday we looked into Dart isolates, which was a blast to learn. Once again we first learned all the ways not to build functioning isolates. Key takeaway for anyone interested in this specific niche of Dart, your isolate functions have to be static functions not…