Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode we're trying something new. Everyone has requested more episodes of the podcast. In short, everyone wants a weekly show. So this week, we're introducing what we call a mini-episode ... or as we like to call them a "Fragment". Fragment episodes will be shorter in length but still packed with goodness. They will range from ~7-25 minutes in length and will showcase either Kaushik, myself (Donn) or both of us. In the first "Fragment" installment we're going to talk about Continuous Integration (CI) and Collective Code Ownership (CCO). Donn talks about what CI is, why its important and how it benefits you and your team. He then dives right into CCO and how it can be facilitated through testing. We hope you enjoy these new mini-episodes ... aptly named ... Fragments. :) Show Notes Thoughtworks - Continuous Integration [thoughtworks.com] Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers [amazon.com] Continuous Integration solutions: Jenkins CI [jenkins-ci.org] Cloud solu

In this episode - Donn and Kaushik dive into a topic that is very near and dear their hearts - application architecture. They talk about how Martin Fowler has inspired a lot of their architectural decisions and how they're moving towards defining what a clean architecture means to them and other developers. They talk about Model View Presenter, Model View Controller and many other topics that surround these two common patterns. Take a listen and go for the ride on architecture train ... all aboard! Show Notes Chit-chat: Exponential backoff with RxJava [github.com] RxJs - ReactiveExtensions for Javascript [github.com] Follow up: Moving GC only applicable when app goes into background: A closer look at ART in Android L (see last paragraph) [anandtech.com] Google I/O 2014: The ART Runtime [youtube.com] The road to a clean architecture: Bad practices: Cargo cult programming [wikipedia.org] God objects [wikipedia.org] Martin Fowler’s articles on Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture: Supervis

In this episode Donn and Kaushik talk to the very talented Michael Bailey about core Java principles and practices. Michael has quite the deep and passionate understanding of Java and we thought it would only be perfect to share this episode with a very passionate Java crowd - Android developers. We talk about IntelliJ, Testing, Inheritance, Static Code analysis, Garbage Collection, Data Structures and much more in this episode. If you're looking to learn a thing or two about Java, then this is your episode. We hope you enjoy. Show Notes elapsedRealtimeNanos for getting wall time [developer.android.com] Android Pay announcement [officialandroid.blogpost.co.uk] Intellij information: Curated list of IDE plugings by Jetbrains [blog.jetbrains.com] Key promoter plugin [plugins.jetbrains.com] Productivity Guide [jetbrains.com/help] Extending + Shrinking selection [jetbrains.com/help] Testing talk: Google acquires Appurify [techcrunch.com] Cloud Test Lab (erstwhile Appurify) [developers.google.com/cloud-test-la

This is the special Google I/O 2015 episode. In this episode - Kaushik makes the trek to Google I/O and chats with various Android developers about their favorite part of Google IO. I was not able to make it but Kaushik was able to interview of top developers in the industry and I’ll tell you what - this is a great episode - I really wish I was there to join him. I know he had a great time chatting and interacting with everyone. We hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed creating it. Show Notes Dan Lew (Trello) @danlew42 -  twitter.com Dan's Blog -  danlew.net Ty Smith (Twitter) @tsmith -  twitter Eric Cochran (IFTTT) NightlyNexus -  github +EricCochranNightlyNexus -  plus.google.com Cyril Mottier (Capitaine Train) @cyrilmottier -  twitter About page -  cyrilmottier.com Shifty Jelly Team Pocket Casts -  pocketcasts.com Philip Simpson @geekygecko -  twitter.com Russell Ivanovic @rustyshelf -  twitter.com Amanda Hill (Venmo) @mandybess -  twitter.com Dave Smith (New Circle) @devunwired

In this episode, we talk to Philip Simpson, one of the rockstar developers of the amazing Pocket Casts Android Application. We learn about how Philip and his partner, Russell, started Shifty Jelly and how they grew their team from a two-person shop to a small staff all while creating one of top apps on Google Play, Pocket Casts. We also talk about some of the tools, tips and tricks that they've used to help them scale, grow and become more effective as indie app developers. We eventually hop into some deep talk about audio software and all kinds of tech in general. If you've always wondered what it takes to be an indie app developer then this is the episode for you - Philip does not let us down. Show Notes Pocket Casts Pocket Weather (for Australia) [play.google.com] Phil’s stuff LG 34” Ultrawide curved monitor (that Phil uses) [amazon.com] device test lab [twitter.com] Android cheatsheet [gist.github.com] Audio effects and features in Pocket Casts [blog.shiftyjelly.com] Marco Arment Accidental Tech Podc

In the final part of this two-part segment, we continue our talk with Jake Wharton. We dive right into the topic of testing. Jake then talks about his approach to testing apps in Android and the different languages that he finds interesting. We then move on to RxJava, NotRxAndroid, SqlBrite and many other libraries and topics to round out this great second episode. Again, we'd love to thank Jake for joining us here on the Fragmented Podcast show; it has been an honor. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Show Notes u2020 Demo App by Jake [github.com] Real Intent Factory [github.com] Fake Intent Factory [github.com] Slides on Real/Fake Intent Factory [speakerdeck.com - DroidCon Presentation] Server side frameworks with Java Jersey [jersey.java.net] Jax-rs [jax-rs-spec.java.net] Go [golang.org] Other languages Jake on using Kotlin for Android [plug.google.com] Kotlin (by JetBrains) [kotlinlang.org] Anko [github.com] Kotlin Android Extensions [kotlinlang.org] Annotation processing for Groovy code [gra

In part one of this two-part segment, we talk to the one and only Jake Wharton. He gives us the scoop on how he operates day to day, what he looks for in a good Android developer and how to become a better Android developer. He also touches upon the various sources and non-Java platforms that he draws inspiration from. Finally, he talks about open source and gives tips on leading an open source project. Show Notes Follow up: Michel Panzer on UIL [plus.google.com] Episode topics: ActionBar Sherlock [github.com] Jake’s working environment Square Github Styles [github.com] No tabs in Intellij [hadihariri.com] Android source code browsing: Android SDK Search by Roman Nurik [chrome.google.com] Download the Android AOSP Source [source.android.com] AndroidXref [androidxref.com] Grepcode Android [grepcode.com] Device Platform Versions [developer.android.com] non-Java languages and platforms to draw inspiration from: Go [golang.org] Rust [rust-lang.org] CycleJs [github.com] Droidcon Montreal keynote by JW

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik start off by discussing the tips and tricks available for efficiently loading images in an Android app. Good image libraries make use of these techniques and perform all the heavy lifting in the background. So they then discuss the different image library options available for Android developers. Show Notes Techniques/tips on effective image rendering in Android: Bitmap sizes and allocation: Displaying bitmaps efficiently [developer.android.com] RGB_565, ARGB_888 and other different bitmap configurations[developer.android.com] Android Camera2 apis [developer.android.com] Chet Haase DevByte : Bitmap allocation [youtube.com] (bitmaps managed in Dalvik heap post 3.0; so large bitmaps implies large heap implies GC could happen more often) Reuse bitmaps: inBitmap option for Android 3.0 and later [developer.android.com] before Android 4.4 only equal sized bitmaps with inSampleSize 1 supported[developer.android.com] Reusing bitmap objects on Android[booking.com] Do

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik continue their conversation with Dan Lew on RxJava. In the final part of this 2 part series, they talk about many useful RxJava operators and other intricacies of using RxJava in Android. Show Notes RxJava Operators: Observable.just [reactivex.io] Observable.from [reactivex.io] Observable.defer [reactivex.io] Using defer to handle “Old, Slow Code” [blog.danlew.net] Observable.map [reactivex.io] Observable.flatmap [reactivex.io] map vs flatmap (alchemist and cheese shredding analogy [reddit]) Observable.zip [reactivex.io] Observable.combineLatest [reactivex.io] Observable. switchMap [reactivex.io] Observable.distinctUntilChanged [reactivex.io] Observable.lift explanation [reactivex.io] Observable.compose Don’t break the chain (using compose) [blog.danlew.net] Observable.filter [reactivex.io] Observable.take [reactivex.io] subscribeOn vs observeOn [stackoverflow.com] Understanding debounce, buffer, debouncedBuffer [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com] RxJava Comp

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik interview Dan Lew - druid of RxJava & RxAndroid! In part 1 of this 2 part series, we find out more about the one they call Dan Lew. We ask Dan how he started off as a developer, how he stays on top of development, where he draws inspiration from for amazing Android development and much more. We then begin disarming the glorious beast that is RxJava touching upon it’s benefits and begin discussion of some common operators. Show Notes Dan’s open source contributions: Joda-Time Android [github] Why developers hate Timezones [youtube] Gfycat [github] Victor by Trello  [github] Staying on top of Android Development: Android Weekly Android Dev Digest Google RSS reader app -  gReader androiddev [reddit] Best Book on learning Java  [Effective Java: Joshua Bloch] Dan’s  favorite apps: Timely Pocket Casts Reddit News Muzei gReader Link Bubble For more inspiration:  Android Niceties Android Games that Dan plays Threes! Hoplite Wordiest Working Remotely: Tre

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik talk about the official IDE for Android development – “Android Studio”. Why should you care about your IDE? Is Android Studio really open source? What are some of the advantages of using Android Studio? How can you customize and tweak Android Studio so you take your android development game to the next level? Listen to this episode and find out. The awesome picks for this episode are particularly awesome too. Shownotes Android Studio (official IDE): Google announces Android Studio [Google I/O 2013] Developer frontpage – Android Studio is the official editor [developer.android.com] “Open source-ness” of Android Studio: IntelliJ open source platform for building IDEs [jetbrains.org] Eclipse plugin ADT [developer.android.com] Build Android Studio from command line [tools.android.com] Jake Wharton’s u2020 Demo App Environment customizations: Kaushik’s Android studio environment (codestyle, livetemplates, keymap etc) [github.com] Chris Kempson – original theme [

Welcome to the very first episode of Fragmented. Donn and Kaushik talk about why they started the podcast, the structure of the podcast and a little about who they are. The main topic for this episode is Testing! What are the benefits of testing, in general? Why does testing specifically help Android developers? What is the state of testing in Android and how does one test in Android? Shownotes Free Getting Started with Espresso 2.0 Screencast Unit testing support –  Android Tools site Donn – Android from the trenches Michael Bailey – (yogurtearl) – espresso, spoon and wiremock Matt Logan – decoupling the presenter KG – interested in an android developer podcast? UiAutomator – Junit and Monkeyrunner got drunk and hooked up Working Effectively With Legacy Code Kent Beck talking about TDD – [Youtube Is TDD Dead] Espresso 2.0 Cheat Sheet Jake Wharton – ActivityRule AssertJ  /  AssertJ-Android XKCD – Compiling Comic Mocks Aren’t Stubs – Martin Fowler ClassNotFoundExceptoin – Espresso 2.0 Dagger Issue Testing Li