kickstarter/android-oss
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
13 Months active
Languages Used
JavaKotlinGraphQLGradlegraphqlkotlinMakefileText
Technical Skills
Android DevelopmentCode MigrationKotlinLocalizationPush NotificationsRXJava
Isabel Martin
PROFILE
Isabel Martin
Over thirteen months, Arkariang contributed to the kickstarter/android-oss repository by delivering 28 features and resolving 7 bugs, focusing on user experience, code maintainability, and platform modernization. He led migrations from Java to Kotlin and RXJava2, upgraded the GraphQL client to Apollo v3, and implemented advanced search, filtering, and localization features. His work included UI modernization with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, robust payment and pledge flows using Stripe integration, and performance improvements through dependency and build optimizations. Leveraging Kotlin, GraphQL, and Jetpack Compose, Arkariang’s engineering consistently improved reliability, scalability, and developer velocity across the Android application.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
80%Features
Repository Contributions
75Total
Bugs
7
Commits
75
Features
28
Lines of code
43,182
Activity Months13
Your Network
2 peopleShared Repositories
2
Work History
October 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 — Focused on release-build optimization, code cleanup, and pledge-flow stabilization in kickstarter/android-oss. Achievements include enabling R8/resource shrinking for release builds, streamlining the service layer by removing unused ApiClient/ApiService, and aligning dependencies (Gemfile.lock and app/build.gradle). Pledge-flow work addressed UI and logic gaps: future-start AddOns display correctly, shipping rules collection/default selection robust, fix pledge flow payment-method visibility, and late-pledge UI alignment. These changes reduce APK size and build times, increase UX reliability, and reduce crash risk.
5 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 — Focused on release-build optimization, code cleanup, and pledge-flow stabilization in kickstarter/android-oss. Achievements include enabling R8/resource shrinking for release builds, streamlining the service layer by removing unused ApiClient/ApiService, and aligning dependencies (Gemfile.lock and app/build.gradle). Pledge-flow work addressed UI and logic gaps: future-start AddOns display correctly, shipping rules collection/default selection robust, fix pledge flow payment-method visibility, and late-pledge UI alignment. These changes reduce APK size and build times, increase UX reliability, and reduce crash risk.
October 2025
September 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered critical UX and platform improvements for kickstarter/android-oss. Fixed a video auto-play bug by reinitializing the player and preserving playback state when returning from comments or updates; modernized the UI with Material 3 across core components (Scaffold, Snackbar, DropdownMenuItem); updated dependencies (Material 3, Compose Material, Firebase Performance Monitoring) and enabled release-time optimizations (minification/resource shrinking) to improve performance and maintainability. This period focused on delivering a refreshed UI, improved playback reliability, and better performance visibility, enabling the product to scale with a modern design system and faster release cycles.
September 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered critical UX and platform improvements for kickstarter/android-oss. Fixed a video auto-play bug by reinitializing the player and preserving playback state when returning from comments or updates; modernized the UI with Material 3 across core components (Scaffold, Snackbar, DropdownMenuItem); updated dependencies (Material 3, Compose Material, Firebase Performance Monitoring) and enabled release-time optimizations (minification/resource shrinking) to improve performance and maintainability. This period focused on delivering a refreshed UI, improved playback reliability, and better performance visibility, enabling the product to scale with a modern design system and faster release cycles.
August 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered core feature upgrades and stability improvements for kickstarter/android-oss, focusing on media playback and networking. Upgraded media playback to Media3 (ExoPlayer) enabling new APIs and smoother playback, and modernized the networking stack with broad dependency upgrades, ApiClient/ApiService, and a MockWebServer. Implemented V1 REST API using Kotlin coroutines to streamline asynchronous calls. These changes reduce maintenance risk, improve app stability, and enable faster delivery of future features.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered core feature upgrades and stability improvements for kickstarter/android-oss, focusing on media playback and networking. Upgraded media playback to Media3 (ExoPlayer) enabling new APIs and smoother playback, and modernized the networking stack with broad dependency upgrades, ApiClient/ApiService, and a MockWebServer. Implemented V1 REST API using Kotlin coroutines to streamline asynchronous calls. These changes reduce maintenance risk, improve app stability, and enable faster delivery of future features.
August 2025
July 2025
10 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Delivered key features to improve content discovery and search, fixed a critical image-loading bug on legacy Android devices, and enhanced UI polish with dynamic empty states. These efforts raise engagement and retention by delivering richer, more reliable experiences across graphs, filters, and media rendering.
July 2025
10 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Delivered key features to improve content discovery and search, fixed a critical image-loading bug on legacy Android devices, and enhanced UI polish with dynamic empty states. These efforts raise engagement and retention by delivering richer, more reliable experiences across graphs, filters, and media rendering.
June 2025
8 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Delivered four key features across localization, location-based discovery, and funding visibility, plus a reliability fix on the AddOns page. These efforts expanded global reach, improved project discovery, and strengthened UX reliability while showcasing strong GraphQL, UI, and localization capabilities.
8 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Delivered four key features across localization, location-based discovery, and funding visibility, plus a reliability fix on the AddOns page. These efforts expanded global reach, improved project discovery, and strengthened UX reliability while showcasing strong GraphQL, UI, and localization capabilities.
June 2025
May 2025
9 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 for kickstarter/android-oss focused on delivering a major UX upgrade to search plus reliability and maintenance improvements. Delivered Enhanced Search Filters with a new Percentage Raised option, improved active filter pill counts, and a refined Reset All flow, implemented across UI and backend layers (MBL work items: MBL-2390, MBL-2389, MBL-2345/2347/2349, MBL-2352, MBL-2471). Fixed WebView content loading by enabling DOM storage to resolve empty content rendering (MBL-2469). Improved branding consistency with updated Facebook login button styling (no-jira). Completed codebase maintenance by removing an unused submodule and bumping version codes/names for release readiness (no-jira).
May 2025
9 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 for kickstarter/android-oss focused on delivering a major UX upgrade to search plus reliability and maintenance improvements. Delivered Enhanced Search Filters with a new Percentage Raised option, improved active filter pill counts, and a refined Reset All flow, implemented across UI and backend layers (MBL work items: MBL-2390, MBL-2389, MBL-2345/2347/2349, MBL-2352, MBL-2471). Fixed WebView content loading by enabling DOM storage to resolve empty content rendering (MBL-2469). Improved branding consistency with updated Facebook login button styling (no-jira). Completed codebase maintenance by removing an unused submodule and bumping version codes/names for release readiness (no-jira).
April 2025
10 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — Developer Monthly Summary for the Kickstarter Android OSS repository. Focused on improving discovery UX through Search and Filter enhancements, stabilizing navigation state, and enabling a safe staged rollout of next-gen capabilities. Key work includes delivering Phase 1 UI improvements, adding subcategory filtering, and introducing Phase 2 behind a feature flag. A critical bug fix preserved user selections when navigating between filter and category flows, reducing user friction and rework. Technical work spanned Android UI components, localization, state management, and feature-flag driven rollout, delivering business value through more accurate search, streamlined workflows, and safer incremental deployment.
10 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — Developer Monthly Summary for the Kickstarter Android OSS repository. Focused on improving discovery UX through Search and Filter enhancements, stabilizing navigation state, and enabling a safe staged rollout of next-gen capabilities. Key work includes delivering Phase 1 UI improvements, adding subcategory filtering, and introducing Phase 2 behind a feature flag. A critical bug fix preserved user selections when navigating between filter and category flows, reducing user friction and rework. Technical work spanned Android UI components, localization, state management, and feature-flag driven rollout, delivering business value through more accurate search, streamlined workflows, and safer incremental deployment.
April 2025
March 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for repo: kickstarter/android-oss. Delivered a major overhaul of the project search and filtering experience, enhanced by a GraphQL-based backend and a comprehensive UI/ViewModel integration. Key improvements include searchTerm, category, and sorting parameters, a debounced search input, a responsive filter menu, improved analytics, and pagination. The update also introduces new data types to support refunds, user groups, and rewards features, enabling richer search results and downstream capabilities. Release and maintenance activities included a version bump and the removal of an obsolete submodule to simplify dependencies and align with ongoing maintenance practices. Impact and value: Significantly improved project discovery for backers and project teams, reduced feature friction in search and filtering, and streamlined dependencies for more reliable builds and faster iterations. Analytics instrumentation now supports better product decisions around search usage and outcomes. Technologies and skills demonstrated: Android MVVM architecture, Kotlin, GraphQL-based data access, advanced UI/UX for search and filters, debounced input handling, pagination, analytics instrumentation, and dependency maintenance.
March 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for repo: kickstarter/android-oss. Delivered a major overhaul of the project search and filtering experience, enhanced by a GraphQL-based backend and a comprehensive UI/ViewModel integration. Key improvements include searchTerm, category, and sorting parameters, a debounced search input, a responsive filter menu, improved analytics, and pagination. The update also introduces new data types to support refunds, user groups, and rewards features, enabling richer search results and downstream capabilities. Release and maintenance activities included a version bump and the removal of an obsolete submodule to simplify dependencies and align with ongoing maintenance practices. Impact and value: Significantly improved project discovery for backers and project teams, reduced feature friction in search and filtering, and streamlined dependencies for more reliable builds and faster iterations. Analytics instrumentation now supports better product decisions around search usage and outcomes. Technologies and skills demonstrated: Android MVVM architecture, Kotlin, GraphQL-based data access, advanced UI/UX for search and filters, debounced input handling, pagination, analytics instrumentation, and dependency maintenance.
February 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 for kickstarter/android-oss focused on unifying the pledge experience and establishing a foundation for data-driven experimentation. Key work delivered includes a UI consolidation for the pledge flow and the introduction of feature flagging infrastructure with an initial search revamp pathway behind a feature flag. Commit references: Pledge Flow UI Consolidation (9263ca9331f4c6447d8edeea47f962a1e9fcb076) associated with MBL-2041; Feature Flagging Infrastructure and Enhanced Search Experience with Statsig integration (f76c24545121f596b210df54e2f20957c4a5f4e1) for MBL-2039 and (9a75752bfec776a502377bd3ab006bdf8994bbd2) for MBL-2134.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 for kickstarter/android-oss focused on unifying the pledge experience and establishing a foundation for data-driven experimentation. Key work delivered includes a UI consolidation for the pledge flow and the introduction of feature flagging infrastructure with an initial search revamp pathway behind a feature flag. Commit references: Pledge Flow UI Consolidation (9263ca9331f4c6447d8edeea47f962a1e9fcb076) associated with MBL-2041; Feature Flagging Infrastructure and Enhanced Search Experience with Statsig integration (f76c24545121f596b210df54e2f20957c4a5f4e1) for MBL-2039 and (9a75752bfec776a502377bd3ab006bdf8994bbd2) for MBL-2134.
February 2025
January 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance summary for kickstarter/android-oss focused on stabilizing payments UX, UI alignment, and release readiness while delivering measurable business value. Key outcomes include improved late pledge flows and Stripe integration reliability, Android 15 UI compatibility, locale-aware currency formatting, and safer GraphQL request handling, plus proactive release versioning housekeeping.
January 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance summary for kickstarter/android-oss focused on stabilizing payments UX, UI alignment, and release readiness while delivering measurable business value. Key outcomes include improved late pledge flows and Stripe integration reliability, Android 15 UI compatibility, locale-aware currency formatting, and safer GraphQL request handling, plus proactive release versioning housekeeping.
December 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Major GraphQL client upgrade and build modernization. Migrated from Apollo Android v2 to v3, updated schema and event tracking for Apollo3, and performed a Gradle upgrade to modernize the build and improve third-party event tracking integration.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for kickstarter/android-oss: Major GraphQL client upgrade and build modernization. Migrated from Apollo Android v2 to v3, updated schema and event tracking for Apollo3, and performed a Gradle upgrade to modernize the build and improve third-party event tracking integration.
December 2024
November 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered two high-impact features in the android-oss repo that deliver business value through backer shipping accuracy improvements, data fetch performance gains, and a cleaner, more maintainable codebase.
November 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Delivered two high-impact features in the android-oss repo that deliver business value through backer shipping accuracy improvements, data fetch performance gains, and a cleaner, more maintainable codebase.
October 2024
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month 2024-10: Delivered two feature-oriented changes in kickstarter/android-oss, focused on maintainability and user-facing clarity. Migrated PushNotifications from Java to Kotlin and upgraded to RXJava2, and refreshed funding flow copy across screens to clearly communicate charging at project deadlines and pledge proof. No major bug fixes recorded this month; the work emphasizes long-term stability, improved developer velocity, and clearer user communication across the product.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024Month 2024-10: Delivered two feature-oriented changes in kickstarter/android-oss, focused on maintainability and user-facing clarity. Migrated PushNotifications from Java to Kotlin and upgraded to RXJava2, and refreshed funding flow copy across screens to clearly communicate charging at project deadlines and pledge proof. No major bug fixes recorded this month; the work emphasizes long-term stability, improved developer velocity, and clearer user communication across the product.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness89.2%
Maintainability87.8%
Architecture86.2%
Performance83.0%
AI Usage22.4%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
GradleGraphQLJavaKotlinMakefileRubyTextXMLgraphqljava
Technical Skills
API IntegrationActivity ManagementAnalyticsAndroid DevelopmentApollo ClientBackend IntegrationBuild ConfigurationBuild System ManagementCode MigrationCode RefactoringComposeCompose UICoroutinesData TransformationDependency Management
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