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Vitalii Markus

Vitalii Markus

Android Engineer @ Flo Health Inc.

Barcelona, Spain

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Hey, I'm Vitalii, an Android Engineer at Flo Health Inc. We're building "The #1 women's health app worldwide with 60 million monthly active users." I'm working in the Health Monitor team, responsible for providing our customers with the most relevant information about their health, symptoms, and patterns.
Living in Barcelona provides an excellent opportunity for an active lifestyle and many outdoor activities. I usually play tennis and beach volleyball with our IT community; sometimes, we hike in the beautiful places of Catalonia; in our free time, we enjoy local restaurants and craft breweries and discuss new trends in IT.
The rest of the time, I usually spend time with my family, kid, and 8-kilos cat.

Area of Expertise

  • Health & Medical
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Android
  • Android Software Development
  • Android Development
  • Android Architecture
  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Apps

Tricky Back-Compatible Localization

In the main part, I want to speak about the new Android 13 feature "Per-app language preferences" which was introduced for all Android versions in AppCompat-1.6.0 this January.

I will explain how it works under the hood and what is wrong with how it was backported to Android 12 via AppCompat Library. I will show how AppCompat Library replaces resources, recreates the whole activity stack, syncs locales, etc.

Indeed, the experience is not the same for all Android versions, which we should keep in mind. I am eager to share my experience and suggest my solution for discussion and how I was able to unify it.

To spice it up, I have my story of ups and downs, which is quite entertaining and, at the same time, useful for the audience; how I broke the app for Indonesian users because of locales.

droidcon Berlin 2023 Sessionize Event

July 2023 Berlin, Germany

droidcon San Francisco 2023 Sessionize Event

June 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Vitalii Markus

Android Engineer @ Flo Health Inc.

Barcelona, Spain

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