Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode Donn talks to React Native magician Ryan Salva. React native and cross-platform development is typically one of our most requested topics so we kick the new year off with React Native. Ryan and Donn dive into the state of React Native today for mobile development, how it's matured since inception, what kinds of apps are suited to be built with React Native, what kinds aren't, what are the benefits to using React Native, some tips like pushing updates without having to upload to the play store every time and so much more. Listen on! Show Notes (Apache) Cordova React Native CodePush CodePush moving to App Center App Center Service workers: an Introduction Misc Expo JS nvm npm Noteworthy quotes from this episode: As developers, we are empowered to break things; it's our god given right! Javascript is a beautiful disaster Sponsors Mapbox Android developers don't have to settle for a default same-map-no-matter-what option in their Android app. Mapbox offers complete map design control, allowing you to create beautiful custom maps to meet the needs of your Android users. Check them out today at mapbox.com/android Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @ryanjsalva @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode, we talk to Alex Lockwood who created shapeshifter.design, while at Google. Shape Shifter is an amazing tool that can help developers create Animated Vector Drawables without losing all their hair. Think of shapeshifter as a developer-friendly, open source, After Effects alternative for Android developers. Alex talks to us about how and why he created Shape Shifter, the different tools that have evolved out of its creation and just getting a good grasp of its working. Show Notes Abt Alex Lockwood Alex's blog - androiddesignpatterns.com How to Leak a Context: Handlers & Inner Classes Handling configuration changes with Fragments Shape Shifter shapeshifter.design Blog post on icon animations An Introduction to Icon Animation Techniques SVGO SVGo - optimizer SVG-OMG - webapp that runs svgo on web by Jake Archibald Shape Shifting & Icon animations Alex Lockwood Droidcon SF 2017 Talk - In-depth parth morphing w/Shape Shifter Building play to pause animation with ShapeShifter [slides] Animal morph animation Nick Butcher talk - Learn some new moves Needleman-Wunsch algorithm AVDO github issue: AVDO -> 🥑 Lottie Sponsors Thanks to Buddybuild for sponsoring this episode of Fragmented! Ship apps faster with BuddyBuild 🚀 Give them a try for free at fragmentedpodcast.com/buddybuild. Contact @alexjlockwood [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode we sit down and talk to Ray Ryan from Square about the Reactive Workflow pattern that he recently gave a talk on. This pattern goes deep into RootViews, containers, ViewFactories and much much more. Show Notes Ray’s “The Rx Workflow Pattern” talk at Droidcon NYC: droidcon NYC 2017 - The Rx Workflow Pattern - YouTube Flow Navigation -GitHub - square/flow: Name UI states, navigate between them, remember where you’ve been. Square Coordinator Library - GitHub - square/coordinators: Simple MVWhatever for Android Composable State Machine Pattern - A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects (draft v3) · GitHub Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @rjrjr [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode, we talk to Jake Wharton of Google on a recent Kotlin coding style guide that they released: the Android Kotlin Guides. In this episode, we pick his brains and ask him how he structured the guide, how he partitioned it to fit some of the idiosyncrasies of Kotlin, what some of the challenges were, when coming up with the guide and much more. Jake's one of the best out there and it's always such a pleasure to have him on the show. Listen on: Show Notes The style guides Android Kotlin Guides official github repo for Android Kotlin guides Google Java Style Guide Jetbrains Coding conventions Jetbrains collection of Kotlin idioms (also very useful) Building the style guide Jekyll Android Testing support library website (inspiration for how to set it up) (github) Android Kotlin Guides Annotation use-site targets with Kotlin guide on interop and file-names for use-site targets logical ordering explanation for ordering companion object I am the reason for Hungarian notation - Cedric Beust blog post Mockito when problems: Kotlin reserved keywords Mockito Kotlin library (aliases when -> whenever) Misc Where to break lines Immutable collection prototypes for Kotlin @Kotlin tweet on immutable collections @JvmOverloads (we love this!) Contributing Contribute to github issues on Android Kotlin Guides Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @JakeWharton [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn makes the pilgrimage to Microsoft Connect 2017. Connect is Microsoft's annual developer conference where they announce a bunch of new products and services. Donn got to interview a bunch of folks, and in this episode, we talk to two of them: Miguel De Icaza (leading open source proponent who also helped create Gnome, Mono, Xamarin etc.) and Simina Pasat (Program manager for Microsoft's very new CI like service AppLink). Both of them were terrific guests and had quite a few gems to share, for us Android devs! Show notes Microsoft Connect Miguel MiguelDeIcaza (Wikipedia) Wine Midnight Commander Gnumeric speedsheet Evolution - Outlook clone for linux Cross platform development Mono project Xamarin Xamarin Live Player Xamarin Workbooks Misc Scott Hanselman on using Visual Studio Download Visual Studio F# (programming language) Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (youtube) Simina Pasat HockeyApp platform Visual Studio App Center Introducing App Center: Build, Test, Distribute and Monitor Apps in the Cloud How to upload an Espresso Test to Visual Studio App Center @vsappcenter Contact @MiguelDeIcaza @SiminaPasat @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode of Fragmented, we talk to Hannes Dorfmann about using the Model View Intent (MVI) pattern for Android. The MVI pattern was sparked through cycle.js (for javascript). Hannes took this pattern and tried to adapt it to Android. This pattern has gained a lot of traction and interest in the Android community. In this episode, he breaks down the pattern for us. He tells us how to implement it, how it helps with testing, the benefits of the pattern and some of the pitfalls. Recording this episode was riveting for us and we dive into some juicy technical details. Listen on! Show Notes About Hannes hannesdorfmann.com blog Mosby Tickaroo Freeletics The Context podcast MV* patterns cyclejs André "Staltz" Medeiros MVVM pattern MVP pattern KG - What i learnt using Presenter patterns MVC by Trygve Reenskaug MVI like patterns Hannes series on MVI for Android (must read!) : Reactive apps with MVI Part 1 - Model Reactive apps with MVI Part 2 - View and Intent Reactive apps with MVI Part 3 - State Reducer Reactive apps with MVI Part 4 - Independent UI components Reactive apps with MVI Part 5 - Debugging with Ease Reactive apps with MVI Part 6 - Restoring state Reactive apps with MVI Part 7 - Timing (Single live event problem) Misc Kategory - (Jorge) Redux Redux Saga - alternative side effect model for Redux apps Redux Observable - AirBnB Groupon Grux Instacart LCE The Journey of Android Engineers: Redux-ing UI Bugs by Christina Lee Managing State with RxJava by Jake Wharton Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Rollbar open source library (alpha) Contact @sockeqwe [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and I decompress. I had the pleasure of attending KotlinConf 2017 - Jetbrain’s very first conference dealing completely just on Kotlin. I have a quick chat after Day 1 with Donn, giving him the juicy updates. We talk about how the conference was organized, some of the technical talks I attended (our thoughts on these…) and some of the folks I had the opportunity to meet. Overall it was an amazing time at KotlinConf and if you want to vicariously enjoy it, listen on to the show. Show Notes Pixel 2 Google Store - Pixel 2 dbrand skins Amanda's tweet on Samsung being annoying KotlinConf KotlinConf 2017 page Pier 27 photo Meeting folks Erik Meijer Talking Kotlin podcast - Hadi Harriri Talks at KotlinConf Amanda Hill - View state machine for network calls on Android (slides) Roman Elizarov - Introduction to Coroutines (slides from another conference) Jorge Costillo: Architectures Using Functional Programming Concepts (slides) Jorge's medium blog Coroutine introduction Antonio Levia's post - A first walk into Kotlin coroutines on Android Book - Kotlin for Android developers Other interesting stuff Kotlin Style Guide - courtesy Jake Wharton Google Java Style Guide google-java-format now for google-kotlin-format github isse (+1 this :D) @JvmOverloads overloads generation Sponsors Thanks to Buddybuild for sponsoring this episode of Fragmented! Ship apps faster with BuddyBuild 🚀 Give them a try for free at fragmentedpodcast.com/buddybuild. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

Another day, another opportunity to learn more Kotlin. In this episode, Kaushik walks through the concept of visibility modifiers. How do the modifiers in Kotlin differ from the ones in Java? What is this new internal modifier? When should I use each of the operators? Listen on to find out! Shownotes: Visibility modifiers Effective Java Item #13 - Ep 63 discussion: Why the default should be internal Scopes in programming language (white paper) Scopes in programming language (wikipedia) Image visualizing differences between the protected modifier in Java and Kotli Excellent resource explaining visibility modifiers in Kotlin Detailed shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com #Sponsors Thanks to Buddybuild for sponsoring this episode of Fragmented! Ship apps faster with BuddyBuild 🚀 Give them a try for free at fragmentedpodcast.com/buddybuild

This is the 100th episode of Fragmented. We do things a little differently for our 100th episode and field a bunch of listener questions that came in. We're going a little meta and talking about our experience starting Fragmented, our process, how we pick guests and topics, our setups, our favorite Android libraries and classes (?!). Thank you so much for being a listener. We cannot express how grateful we are to have you. Shownotes Android from the trenches (first talk KG saw of Donn's) No “yes.” Either “HELL YEAH!” or “no.” Google Pixel 2 store Setup KG Shure Beta 87A USB Pre 2 LG 34UC87C 34 ultra wide display Headphones (KG has too many - ping em if you're curious) Donn Shure Beta 87A Heil PR 40 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Mackie Onyx Blackjack Dell E2715H monitor Android Resources Android Weekly Android dev digest Android resources (curated) one where we point people to Awesome android github .. and many many more Android View class Android Canvas class RxJava Dagger Roboguice Donn Felker - make the most of your time Robinhood Square Cash app Google Play music app Android niceties Caster io - MVP series RxJava Android samples TrueTime Android Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Rollbar open source library (alpha) Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode, Donn talks about Item #17 from the Effective Java book: Design and Document for inheritance or else prohibit it. Learn how you should be documenting your code that is built for inheritance when you should not call overridable methods and much more. Show Links Fragmented - Effective Java Fragments Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe