Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode of Fragmented we talk to our friend Piwai from Square. Piwai's a pro at testing and breaking apps (he built LeakCanary - so not terribly unexpected). He teaches us some strategies on debugging app crashes and briefs us on this concept he calls "offensive programming" which has helped him a lot with his Android development. It's good stuff and we hope you enjoy the show. Show Notes Defensive programming Py's libraries: AndroidAnnotations LeakCanary Misc resources: Luhn check - algorithm Debouncing in general Debounce operator in RxJava Advocating against Android Fragments Pending touches and UI event: Cancel pending touches DebouncingOnClickListener (RxBindings) Py's talk - All apps shall crash Contact @piwai [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #16 of the Effective Java series - Favor Composition over Inheritance. You'll learn why using inheritance is not always a great idea and how you can use composition in place of it to make your code more anti-fragile, resilient and clean. Show Notes Effective Java Book Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He doesn't just talk about the book itself, but he talks about how to approach a legacy code base and start delivering value as soon as possible, yet with confidence. If you've recently started a new job, moved to a new team, started working on an existing code base, then this episode is bound to help you. Show Notes Working Effectively with Legacy Code Book Sponsor Rollbar Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode, we talk to Dan Kim about Kotlin. Dan is an Android developer at the company Basecamp and has some great Kotlin posts on the company's famous blog Signal Vs Noise. He was pretty early, on the Kotlin train and has been working with the new language for quite sometime now. Instead of trying to go into every single detail about Kotlin, the nuances of the language, it's syntax etc. we take a more general approach and talk about starting out on Kotlin, how does on go about migrating an Android codebase to Kotlin, what are things we should watch out for when using the language. This and a whole lot more! Show Notes Basecamp blog - Signal vs. Noise Jake Wharton - Using project Kotlin for Android Fragmented - Ep 20 with Hadi (spl. mention shownotes) Dan Lew - Mutable vals in Kotlin Kotlin idioms Kotlin - coding conventions kapt - Annotation processing for Kotlin Kotlin website Kotlin website (source) Kotlin view (binding) libs Kotlin Android extensions Kotterknife Anko Synthetic properties Resources Jake's youtube video Dan's blog posts: How we made Basecamp 3’s Android app 100% Kotlin Some of my favorite Kotlin features Android development with Kotlin - Jake Wharton (video) Introduction to Kotlin - Google I/O 17 (video) Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @dankim or [email Dan](mailto: dan@basecamp.com) @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

This was truly one of the most memorable IOs Google has ever conducted. In keeping with tradition, Donn and Kaushik talk with a bunch of awesome #AndroidDev and get their opinions/thoughts on IO and Android in general. As always, these are super fun episodes. Show Notes Dan Kim (Basecamp) @dankim or dan@basecamp.com Vysor app Mark Allison - being brave with the O preview Patryk Poborca (Kozio Digital) @patrykpoborca Trello app Jerrell Mardis (Salesforce) @jerrellmardis Robinhood app Android architecture components talk Annyce Davis (Offgrid Electric) @brwngrldev Forest app React Native: Building Mobile apps Zac Sweers (Uber) @pandanomic YouTube TV app Slack app Matt Kranzler (Salesforce) @mattkranzler Flamingo app Roberto Orgiu (Caster) @_tiwiz Christina Lee (Pinterest) @RunChristinaRun Christina's Fundraiser - Running across America Robinhood app Talk at IO - Life is Great and Everything Will Be Ok, Kotlin is Here Hugo Visser (Little Robots) @botteaap or +HugoVisser Android APT Raveesh Bhalla @raveeshbhalla Enki app Etienne Caron (Shopify) @kanawish Safari Queue app Chris Jenkins (Owlr) @chrisjenx Calligraphy font lib by Chris Waze app Brenda Cook (Seesaw) @kenodoggy Mint app Memrise app Joaquim (Twitch) @joenrv The Making of Falcon Pro 3 Falcon Pro (Joaquim's app) Strafe Esports app Previous Google IO Episodes Ep 43 - Google IO 2016 (part 2) Ep 42 - Google IO 2016 (part 1) Ep 9 - Google IO 2015 Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

RxJava is considered a functional reactive programming library. But the paradigms of functional programming have existed for a very long time. In this episode we talk to Android GDE Anup Cowkur, about his experience experimenting with "pure" functional languages. He breaks down some of the basic concepts, explaining the different terms along the way. Download directly Show Notes Gordon Moore & Moore's law Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation PCollections - persistent Java collections library Functional languages: Elixir Elm Scala Lisp Haskell Erlang Resources Anup's multi part series on functional programming The Context podcast - Functional programming with Paco Estevez Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016 Learning functional programming and compositional software techniques in JavaScript - Eric Elliot Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @anupcowkur [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

It's pretty awesome, when you use a third party library, love using it and finally get to talk to the person who actually helped build it. In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Peal. Besides having quite the illustrious career in Android development, Gabriel now works at Airbnb and helped build Lottie - an animation library. What is Lottie, how do you use Lottie? why is so Lottie so cool? how does it actually work under the hood? Listen to this episode and find out. Show Notes Lottie for Android (github) Bodymovin (github) Install via Adobe cloud extensions lottiefiles.com - sample Lottie animations Using lottie - example snippets Lotte Reiniger- the animator Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @gpeal8 or lottie@airbnb @fragmentedcast @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

It is the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Google's answer to that is the Android Things. In this episode, we talk to the amazing Rebecca Franks. She explains how Android things works and talks of some of the adventures and examples she's embarked on with Android Things. If you've had that hobby Raspberry Pi or Arduino board lying around and not sure how to put it to use, this episode's for you. Show Notes Ep 42 - Google IO episode Rebecca's blog posts: Distributed Piano with Android Things Electricity Monitoring app with Android Things Hardware basics for the Software Engineer Android Things Developer Kits Arduino Starter Kit (includes the h/w book she recommends) Android Things - official github repo Android things Contrib drivers - (e.g. button gradle dependency) Sponsors Kobiton Contact @riggaroo and riggaroo.co.za @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode Donn and Kaushik recommend 10 books on Software programming that they think every Android developer would greatly benefit from reading. These are books that helped them become better programmers and have had the most impact in their daily lives as Android developers. Show Notes Effective Java - Joshua Bloch Effective Java Items (Fragmented fragments) Working effectively with legacy code - Michael Feathers Head first Design Patterns Don't make me think - Steve Krug, 3rd edition Java Concurrency in Practice XUnit testing patterns Website xunitpatterns.com Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler Javascript the good parts - Douglas Crockford Gary Bernhardt - WAT Clean Code - Robert.C.Martin Clean Code: Writing code for humans (Puralsight) Coders at Work - Peter Seibel Honorable mentions Release it Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Gang of Four) Pragmatic Programmer CODE - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Soft Skills - John Sonmez Deskbound - Kelly Starett 8 steps to a pain free back - Esther Gokhale Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

Have you ever thought about building VR (Virtual Reality) apps? Where do you start? How difficult is it? How similar is to Android development? Do you still code in Java? In this episode, Etienne Caron AndroidDev extraordinaire and expert VR hobbyist gets us up to speed on what you need to know, to start creating VR apps. Show Notes Shopify Engineering Blog (VR) Demoscene Save a cat from a skyscraper (VR game) Rajawali - Android OpenGL engine Build your first Google VR app in 10 minutes : caster.io course developer docs on Google VR Unity game engine Vulkan API (open GL) Project Rider - C# IDE Shadertoy.com OpenGL ES Apple docs Learn OpenGL ES.com Contact @kanawish [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe