Sat.May 06, 2017 - Fri.May 12, 2017

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Detecting List Items Observed by User

Zalando Engineering

Scrollable sets of items are one of the main UI elements of every app. Quite often a business wants to know if a user has viewed and perceived a specific item. From here, we need to figure out if a user spent enough time in order to accept the content. Let’s find an Android solution using RecyclerView and RxJava. Why and what? Our team met with the following requirement: identify which item of the RecyclerView list was viewed and perceived by the user.

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How to Dress Code – The Creation of Fashion for Tech

Zalando Engineering

There are certain things that simply shouldn’t go together. Yet, miraculously, they do: Think about peanut butter and jelly, Stan and Laurel or more on topic, fashion and tech. Both of these departments are part of what make up Zalando’s DNA and are essential to our daily work. Both also have clear opinions of the other, which make a collaboration between the two not the most seamless of tasks.

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