Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik look at the Android N developer preview. They highlight the biggest changes that you as an Android Developer should keep an eye out for. There are tonne of features in N, so listen to this episode to get the highlights. Show Notes First preview of Android N: Developer API & Tools [android-developers.blogspot.com] Instruction for setting up your dev environment for the N preview (~=> Lambda support) [developer.android.com] Java 8 Language features [developer.android.com] ADB episode : 45 State of the Art Lambdas do not retain enclosing reference (unless really needed) commit note on Jack toolchain [android.googlesource.com] JacklrBuilder source createMethodInfoforLambda [android.googlesource.com] RxJava Android Samples using lambdas [github.com] javap - The Java class file Disassembler [docs.oracle.com] Issue tracking Annotation processing options in Jack [code.google.com] Other Java 8 language features for N [developer.android.com] Android MultiWindow features [developer.android.com] GCM Network Manager a.k.a Job Scheduler [developers.google.com] Android Notification styles [developer.android.com] Resources What’s new in Android N: Ian Lake + Joanna smith [youtube.com] 5 tips for preparing for multi window in Android N: Ian Lake [medium.com] DroidCon SF keynote: Chet and Romain [youtube.com] Random musing on the N developer preview [commonsware.com] Sponsor Hired - special offer: double your accepting bonus $2000 Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this very first edition of our Decompress episode we talk about life being code as an Android developer, some Xcode hating, Testing woes and the intensly discussed library that Google recently released Agera! Shownotes: Agera Sponsor Hired - special offer: double your accepting bonus $2000

In this mini Fragment we touch on a highly requested topic - working remotely. Donn talks about how to ease into remote working, tools for working remotely, tips and tricks for staying sane and productive while remote and he wraps it up by discussing the benefits employers have when hiring a remote workforce. Show Notes Remote work is best suited for information workers (programmers, designers, engineers, etc) Read Remote by DHH and Jason Fried Great book that echoes what I feel about working remote. Tip: Listen to it on Audible, it's faster to consume. How to ease into remote work at your current job Convince manager to allow a 1 day trial for one - three months. Remote day should be on Friday (fewer critical things happen on Friday, on average) After trial, if success, aim for 2-3 days of remote work. (Again, do this at the end of the week. Wed,Thu, Fri) Once successful, rally for full week of remote with an occasional in office visit (a day every week work two) Staying sane while working remote Donn's blog post on this topic Create a work day schedule (5am-2pm, 8am-5pm, 10am-7pm, etc) When you're done, you're done. Leave work (your office/etc). Schedule. Schedule. Schedule. Stick to a schedule. Get up at the same time Get dressed for work (no PJ's etc) Do your hair. Be presentable This is all mental Prepare for the day Get coffee/tea/water and snacks Try to limit the opportunity of distractions During the day Take a lunch, away from your desk. Go out for lunch with someone (significant other, friend, etc) at one to two times a week. Work out of the house a couple times a week, this increases our creativity. Outside of Work You need social interaction, Cabin Fever is a real thing. Exercise 3-4 times a week if possible. Group classes are perfect for this. CrossFit Martial Arts Yoga Pilates etc Communication When Remote Put 3x-4x more effort into communicating than previous. You're not visible seen so you need to be more vocal. Call SMS Blow up the Slack/Hipchat channel/etc Objective - Clear your own path Tools For remote to work effectively, everything should be considered remote. If one employee is remote, then all meetings should occur as if the team is remote. This ensures that everyone can work effectively without missing anything. Communication Group Chat Slack HipChat Video Chat Google Hangouts Skype Join.me Zoom.us Task Management Trello Jira Asana GitHub Remote for Employers Benefits from Remote workforce Much larger talent pool than the exhausted pool (or non-existent one that local). Higher quality employees/contractors/consultants for the same overhead. Remote creates much more loyal employees. You're giving them their life back and this is reciprocated. Your company becomes anti-fragile as you're able to adapt with the industry faster. You can hire in areas others cannot. On average, remote employees work harder and are more productive than their office counterparts. Less overhead! No need to pay for additional office space. Sponsor Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this mini Fragment we touch base on all the things you need to know about Vector drawables for Android development. How one can use it today, the recommended usage for vector drawable and formats, the limitations and everything else you need to know as an Android developer. Show Notes Vector Drawable [developer.android.com] Trello's Victor [github.com] What's our Vector Victor [youtube.com] Android Studio 1.4 release (with Vector Asset Studio announcement) [android-developers.blogspot.com] Support library announcements Android Support Library v23.2 [android-developers.blogspot.com] Vector Drawable backported Ian Lake also gives us the instructions in this post 9% of AAR saved on AppCompat [chris.banes.me] Android Support v23.3.1 announced [plus.google.com] Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com] Animated Vector Drawable AnimatedVectorDrawable [developer.android.com] Chiuki on Animated Vector Drawables [sqisland.com] Road Runner library [github.com] see youtube demo [youtube.com] Problems: Dan Lew's SVG test project [github.com] bug report on no gradient support for vectors [code.google.com] Vector format restrictions : Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com] Better conversation tool svg2android - Juraj Novák [inloop.github.io] Other references: Mark Allison - Vector Drawable Part 1 [stylingandroid.com] Mark Allison - Vectors for all (Almost) [stylingandroid.com] Using Android Vector Drawable [code.tutsplus] Sponsor Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode we talk Gradle with the amazing and awesome Annyce Davis. We deal with the basics of Android's build system and dabble with some tips on improving your build times. Also we released our first ever Fragmented T-shirt in collaboration with another amazing GDE Taylor Ling of AndroidTee fame. Show Notes Annyce's talk where she mentions Cyclomatic complexity [youtube.com] OffGrid Electric Corey Latislaw on TDD and Testing [fragmentedpodcast.com] Annyce Davis' Caster.io videos DAG: Directed Acyclic Graph [wikipedia.org] DAG discussion on Fragmented - Seek to 18:35 What commands does Andorid Studio's gradle aware make perform? [stackoverflow.com] MakeBeforeRunTaskProvider source [android.googlesource.com] Creating a Gradle Plugin Use apply from in gradle to include external files Learn Groovy Gradle dry run flag [docs.gradle.org] Madis Pink - Optimizing gradle build time : Droidcon Paris [youtube.com] Annyce's talks & videos: Be a good citizen: Develop Maintainable apps [youtube.com] Caster.io videos Fragmented T-shirt Blog post Purchase here Contact Annyce @brwngrldev [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

The Android Support library framework is the biggest boon to Android developers. But how does one makes sense of the different versions and revisions available? In this fragment we try to address that question. Show Notes Introducing AppCompat V21 [android-developers.blogspot.com] [android-developers.blogspot.com] Prev episode with Mike Wolfson [fragmentedpodcast.com] Android Support Library - "Revision" changelog [developer.android.com] Revision vs Version [stackoverflow.com] Introducing Design Support Library Command to see dependency graph: ./gradlew -q app:dependencies Seinfeld Auditions Contact Fragmented Spec channel (sign up at the bottom) @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com] Contact email form

In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's eighth Item. This one is a doozy, probably one of the longest items in the group of the effective Java series, but most definitely quite important. This episode is brought to you by Rollbar. Go to rollbar.com/fragmented to get their Bootstrap plan for free for 90 days. Stay tuned for more items from our "Effective Java for Android developers" Fragment series. Show Notes Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch Obey the general contract when overriding equals When to not override equals: Each instance of the class is inherently unique. You don't care whether the class provides a "logical equality" test. A superclass has already overridden equals, and the superclass behavior is appropriate for this class. The equals method implement an equivalence relation which states it must be: Reflexive Symmetric Transitive Consistent For any non-null reference x, x.equals(null) must return false. A recipe for a high-quality equals method is as such: Use the == operator to check for references to this object. Use the instanceof operator to check if the argument has the correct type  Cast to the correct type. Check all field types and corresponding field types. Finally, when done, ask yourself - is this method symmetric, transitive and consistent? Caveats Always override hashcode when you override equals Don't be too clever! Don't substitute another type for Object in the equals declaration. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode we talk to Material Design Master and Google Developer Expert Mike Wolfson. What does Material design mean to us developers? How does one use the numerous support libraries to help with this? What widgets should and shouldn't we be using? Listen to the show and find out. Show Notes Material Design - Official site Material Design - The Specification Google Color Palette - list of "approved" colors Google Color Palette Library - picking colors from an image Android Support Lib 23.2 video [twitter.com] Resource for getting better at Material Design: Materialdoc.com - curated blog post for developers Android Historian - Mike's Material Design demo PSD resources - Up Labs [materialup.com] Official PSD layout templates Official Material Design Icons DroidconNYC 2015: Material design everywhere using the Android Support Libraries - Mike's talk Sponsors Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days [rollbar.com/fragmented] Contact Mike Wolfson: Twitter Google+ mikewolfson.com @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

If you've been an Android developer in the last 2 years, you must have seen this dreaded exception: dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 Quick googling would immediately bring up the phrase "65K method count" and the recommended solution "multi-dexing". But if you want to really understand this mysterious number and the reason behind its existence, listen on! Show Notes Official Dalvik specification [source.android.com] (look for invoke- prefix methods) Android and the Dex limit (great post) ADB Ep 11 : ART, pART 2 (Trash Talk) (discussion on ART) MultiDexing [developer.android.com] (solution to your 65K method count woes) Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]