Developer's Experience Implementing Automatic eSIM Installation on Android
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Summary
The article details a developer's experience implementing automatic eSIM installation on Android, starting from Android 9 (API level 28). The author shares their unique challenge of developing this functionality blindly without the ability to test it during development. The content covers both technical aspects of eSIM implementation and the personal story of overcoming development obstacles, explaining how this feature can be integrated either in Mobile Operator applications or as separate features within existing apps.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI love my job because, surprisingly, over the years it keeps becoming more and more non-trivial and engaging.
My story of implementing automatic eSIM installation was interesting because it was developed blindly, without any possibility to test the functionality at the time of development.
This article will discuss both eSIM itself and my curious story around it.
Starting from Android 9 (API level 28), it became possible to work with eSIM.
This functionality can be implemented either in a Mobile Operator application or as a separate feature inside an existing application that may n
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