# Starting Android at Khan Academy

DevFeed: [Starting Android at Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/starting-android-at-khan-academy-27408.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/starting-android.htm>)

Author: Khan Academy

Published: 2016-02-29T23:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/khan-academy.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-development.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mocking.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-development.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [libraries](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libraries.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [mocking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mocking.md>), [module](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/module.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [picasso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/picasso.md>), [play-store](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/play-store.md>), [pre-commit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pre-commit.md>), [retrofit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrofit.md>), [test](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>)

## AI overview

Khan Academy describes its first Android app, launched in August 2015, and the engineering practices used to build it. The team adopted established Android and open-source libraries, separated Android-independent core code from the app module, and used fast JVM tests and continuous integration.

## Source excerpt

By Ben Komalo The journey of a thousand miles... In March, 2015--almost 1 year ago to the day--we ... Read more