Android has supported autoBackup for apps by default since Android 6, enabling users to backup app data automatically to Google Drive. Configuration for this backup could be added with backup rules, or it could be turned off entirely with autoBackup=false. This also allowed apps to configure device-to-device transfer (D2D transfer),…
For years, our Quality Assurance team members manually verified long checklists of features alongside each bi-weekly release. Now, with 100% automatic deployments multiple times a day, automated tests are the essential tool to preserve site quality and stability. Every engineering team has the responsibility to ensure adequate automated testing. But…
Note: If you haven’t read my article about what it means to be a software engineer, I would recommend you go back and read it first for some valuable context. Okay, so you know that you want to be a software engineer, now what? Should I go to college? Now,…
Lucid recently opened its east coast hub in Raleigh, North Carolina. Having now spent nine months in Raleigh, I can definitively say we chose a great place. I’ve personally made many new friends and had great opportunities to learn and grow from the wonderful people in the area. It’s been…
I’ve been working for Lucid for almost four years as a senior QA specialist, and there is one thing that I look forward to every year: the Hackathon. All members of our R&D teams, which includes designers, engineers, QA specialists, product managers, and analysts, set aside their usual work and…
Having recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science and started working as a software engineer, I have found myself receiving a deluge of questions from friends, family, even random people in the streets. Among being asked to fix printers or getting solicitations for free coding work, one of the…
Lucid’s Strategy & Analytics team has the main responsibility and objective of helping our internal stakeholders achieve business impact. The way we accomplish this is through a combination of strategic analyses (providing data-driven recommendations on key issues) and data modeling (collecting and transforming data to make it clean, accurate, useful,…
Every year Lucid takes on a large number of interns across departments. We asked three interns from our Summer 2022 cohort—Amelia Ward, Customer Operations; Sriraag Govardha, Product Management; and Jaden Peterson, Software Engineering—to reflect on their internship experience from this year: What has been the most surprising part of your…
Toward the end of my junior year in university, my algorithms professor said he was restarting the university’s competitive programming club and that he was looking for students interested in participating. I didn’t have much going on during the summer and figured it would look good on my resume after…
Our annual Hackathon is an amazing part of Lucid’s culture. My first hackathon experience came within a few months of my arrival at Lucid in 2019—and I was not prepared for the awesomeness and craziness that was about to take place. We were encouraged to invite friends and family to…