Startup evangelist Robert Scoble recently said SwiftKey was the "number one reason" he switched from iOS to Android. He interviewed co-founder and CTO Ben Medlock because he wanted to find out more about the "geek behind SwiftKey". Watch his Google Hangout with Ben and CMO Joe...
One of the things we enjoy at SwiftKey is meeting other companies, large and small, and sharing knowledge with them. Today we played host to Jouko Kaasila and Henri Kivelä from Bitbar, who came to talk to us about automated cloud-based testing for Android. Michele Sama (second from right),...
This one is for the Android nerds out there! Today, at DroidCon UK 2011, I presented the TouchType way of dealing with configuring Android APKs. We've come up with a clean framework to generate different APKs from a single source tree according to given feature requirements. (Our system is a bit...
This week I gave a talk to Londroid testing enthusiasts on how we do TDD on Android at TouchType. Our system uses RoboGuice (an Android version of Google Guice) and an open-source Scala mocking framework called Borachio, developed by Paul Butcher, our Chief Software Architect. We write our tests...
We're looking for a full-stack web developer to join the best company in the world - TouchType - to do a variety of fun, engaging and innovative things with our technology. Do you think you fit the bill? If so, check out our job description here. No recruiters please. Cheers! Joe...
As we saw in part 2 of this series, mocking Android's PowerManager service directly is impossible. But there is an alternative approach that gives us something close enough. This article describes that approach. (more...)...
In part 1 of this series, I showed how to mock an interface that we created ourselves under Android. That's useful, but mocking really pays dividends when mocking OS services—doing so allows us to test our code in isolation, verify that it interacts with the OS correctly and that it handles...
In the next few "Technical Wizardry" articles, we're going to look at the approach we've developed to help with testing Android code (first published here). (more...)...
Welcome to the new "Technical Wizardry" section of the TouchType blog. Here's where we'll be sharing a few of the tips and tricks we've learned while developing SwiftKey and the Fluency prediction engine that underpins it. We're going to start off with a series of articles on Android development...
The dust has now settled on our paid launch in September and SwiftKey is already establishing itself as a leading solution to the problem of typing quickly and accurately on the go. At last month's DroidCon Android conference in London, I pitched our app at the AppCircus competition and we won....
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