Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode, we talk to our good friend and immutability champ Ryan Harter. We start off talking about the benefits and disadvantages of immutability, then we dive into Value types and the subtle difference with Value types. Finally we close out by talking about AutoValue and how you can extend it using the super nifty auto-value extension system for functionality like Parcelability, Json parsing etc. Show Notes About Ryan Pigment (coloring for adults) Fragment (prismatic photography art) (His blog post on the same) Fragmented: Google IO special (Ryan was one of our guests) References Martin Fowler's updated article on ValueObjects Effective Java Fragments: Ep 14: Consider providing static factory methods instead of constructors Ep 31: Obey the general contract when overriding equals Ep 34: Always Override hashcode when overriding equals Methods Count (check number of methods for a library) AutoValue AutoValue AutoValue Builders AutoValue Factory (different from AutoValue Builders) Difference betw

In this episode we talk to Ty Smith about all things Developer Platform. Currently a tech lead at Uber, Ty has quite the illustrious career having worked on some of the biggest names you've heard like Uber, Twitter(Fabric), Evernote, Zagat etc. Unlike regular client app development, Developer Platform spans a variety of interesting topics like building consumable SDKs, building libraries with good APIs, creating Android integrations and App to app communication via components like Content Providers, AIDL Integrations, Intent APIS and deep links. We ask Ty how he got started in this field, how one should go about thinking about it and the interesting challenges that one would run across in this intriguing field. Show Notes Ty's all star Dallas crew Chris Banes [@chrisbanes] previously on FriendCaster Chris Arvin [@ChrisArvinSF] previously on BaconReader Dan Lew [@danlew42] previously on Expedia Matt Wear [parallelcross.com] prevoiusly on Evernote Juan Gomez [@_juandg] on Netflix Developer Platform Tests? A

In this mini-Fragment episode, Kaushik talks about the process of Garbage collection and how it compares to Reference counting (which is the equivalent process in iOS). How does each work? What are the differences? Which is better

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #13 of the Effective Java series - Minimize the accessibility of classes and members. You'll learn why it's important to limit the access on your public API, how it can help you with development and performance. You'll also learn how changing a public API can affect the consumers of your API, for good and bad. Show Notes Java Access Control Effective Java Book Sponsor BuddyBuild Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #12 of the Effective Java series - Consider Implementing Comparable. You'll learn about how you can use the Comparable interface to give your code the extra sorting boost it needs. Work with Arrays.sort(), Collections utilities and even sorted data structures. Donn breaks down what it takes to implement the compareTo method of the Comparable interface. Show Notes Comparable Interface Effective Java Book Sponsor BuddyBuild Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

The age old question: should I be using an event bus today? What is an event bus? what are still some good use cases for an event bus? Can i replace an event bus with RxJava? Donn and Kaushik have at it and try to answer this question that gets asked constantly in the AndroidDev circles. Listen on for our take. Show Notes What's an event bus Donn's blog post on event aggregators (event buses) [donnfelker.com] KG's blog post on implementing an event bus with Rx [blog.kaush.co] Libraries Otto - Square's Event Bus library [github.com] EventBus - greenrobot [github.com] Misc Handling GCM messages in the foreground and background by Mark Hudnall [markhudnall.comm] KISS [wikipedia.org] Ep 53: Jake on RxJava 2 [fragmentedpodcast.com] RxRelays [github.com/JakeWharton] Diff change set for converting RxBus to an RxRelay [github.com/kaushikgopal] Caster.io EventBus course - Annyce Davis [caster.io] Sponsors BuddyBuild Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGo

We talk with Android UI magician Israel. In this episode, Israel does what magicians are never supposed to do, reveal those exciting magic tricks. He talks about tricks you can use in your Android apps to create a super slick UI, citing examples from Google Photos, Twitter and other apps. Dazzle your Android users with these UI tricks. Show Notes Israel's last appearance on Fragmented (Ep 26) [fragmentedpodcast.com] Smoke and Mirros Israel's sample app [github.com] Slides (with animation demos) [photos.google.com] Google Photos Recycler View pinch to expand/shrink [photos.google.com] ClipChildren demo [photos.google.com] Utils method - traverse hierarchy and clip [photos.google.com] Tap image to show full screen [photos.google.com] Misc Nick Butcher's Plaid app [github.com] Android-Job library by Evernote [github.com] Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @rallat [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

We talk with the all-star multi-talented GDE Chiu-Ki Chan about testing. Specifically, we dive into leveraging Mockito for your testing needs. What is Mocking, what is Stubbing, what are the different test doubles, how does mockito help with this? Listen on to find about that and some more interesting stuff on testing! Show Notes Introducing Pixel [blog.google] Static Gateway Pattern [codebetter.com] About Chiu-Ki: Android Dialogs | youtube [youtube.com] 360|AnDev co-organizer | conference [360andev.com] Technically Speaking| newsletter [tinyletter.com] fake SharedPreferences implementations from AOSP FakeSharedPreferences | fake in-memory SharedPreferences implementation [github.com] BridgeSharedPreferences | empty SharedPreferences that does nothing implementation [github.com] Testing SharedPreferences [gumroad.com] Different kinds of Test doubles Know your test doubles [testing.googleblog.com] [Test Doubles: Mocks, Stubs, and More](https://www.objc.io/issues/15-testing/mocking-stubbing/ http://www.

In this mini-Fragment, Donn talks about Item #11 of the Effective Java series - Override clone Judiciously. You'll learn about the extralinguistic behavior of clone and the Cloneable interface. Clone and Cloneable are very special, and this episode helps explain the nuances. Show Notes Object#clone Effective Java Book Sponsor Hired - special offer: double the signing bonus! Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker [twitter.com] @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode we talk with, Lisa Wray, first of her job title, mother of the Genius Android app and sorceress of Data Binding. What is Data Binding? How does it work? What can you do with it? ... and what you can really do with it ! Listen on and find out more. Lisa walks us through the basics and then talks to us about how we can really push the envelope with Data Binding and do some really cool things. Show Notes About Lisa Wray xwray.com Genius [genius.com] Fragmented Ep 042 - Google IO 2016 special [fragmentedpodcast.com] Data Binding Resources Data Binding Library [developer.android.com] Data Binding - Writing Apps Faster (Android Dev Summit 2015) [youtube.com] Data Binding Techniques - Jacob Tabak's Droidcon NYC 2015 talk [youtube.com] talk:title="@{dataBinding}" - Lisa's lightning talk at Square Android Spring Cleaning [youtube.com] Descent into Data Binding - Bill Phillips at Big Nerd Ranch [bignerdranch.com] Advanced Data Binding - Google I/O 2016 [youtube.com] ADB Ep 35 - Data Bound [

We wind this two part series down with GDE Philippe by chatting about postfix completion, live templates, structural search/replace, integrating with external tools, cool configurations and much more. Prepare to be mind blown. Show Notes Ep 55 - Fragmented: Part 1 of this series Phil's talk at 360Andev talk (coming soon): Android Studio like a boss [twitter.com] Phil's Android Studio Tip of the day series [plus.google.com] Timber logging : courtesy JakeWharton [github.com] ADB Idea plugin by Phil [github.com] Caster.io AS stuff: Lesson 3: Android Studio Productivity – Custom Shortcuts Lesson 47: Integrating Robolectric 3 with Android Studio 2 Lesson 66: Android Studio – Applying Logcat Filters Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @pbreault and developerphil.com @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this 2 part series, we talk to the illustrious Philippe of Android Studio tinkering fame. He starts off by discussing the intermediate basics that everyone should know about using Android Studio: window configuration, keyboard shortcuts, navigating the code smoothly, debugging etc. Gradually he moves into ninja mode and starts blowing DF & KG's minds with cool tips and configurations. Show Notes JetBrains Toolbox subscription Phil's Android Studio Tip of the day series [plus.google.com] DroidCon Montreal 2015 [droidcon.ca] No tabs in IntelliJ - Hadi Hariri [hadihariri.com] Ep 20 - Fragmented : One with Hadi Hariri Facebook Stetho [github.io] Sponsor Hired - special offer: double the signing bonus! Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @pbreault and developerphil.com @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

Donn and Kaushik discuss how they use git for their development workflow. They also touch on semantic versioning and how they rollout new versions of their app in a controlled fashion. Show Notes Follow up Ep 052: Junit tricks with Parameterized and Enclosing tests Jose Alcerecca showing some Stephan Linzer love Burst : Better Parameterized testing by Square Misc TortoiseSVN A successful git branching model DiffMerge by SourceGear realm-java open source repo (shows branch naming convention) Semantic versioning spec Sponsor Hired - special offer: double the signing bonus! Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

We have Jake Wharton and RxJava in one episode

In this mini fragment Kaushik talks about some cool Junit 4 tricks using Parameterize, Enclosing test runners.

We've always wanted to know more about annotation processing, so in this episode we pick GDE Mike Evans' brains on the topic and ask him a whole bunch of questions. If you've thought about diving into Annotation processing but never quite grappled with what it's all about, this is a good episode to listen to. Show Notes Mike's DroidCon NYC 2015 [youtube.com] AirBnB's deep link dispatch [github.com] ButterKnife from Jake Wharton [github.io] Improving your code with Android Support Annotations [michaelevans.org] Jake Wharton and Jesse Wilson - Annotation Processing Boilerplate Destruction [youtube.com] 021: Fragmented - Jesse Wilson on Linker [fragmentedpodcast.com] @Target Element Types [docs.oracle.com] JavaPoet by Square [github.com] AutoService library by Google kapt - Annotation processing for Kotlin [blog.jetbrains.com] Annotation processing 101 [hannesdorfmann.com] Aftermath by Michael Evans [github.com] Sponsors BuddyBuild Contact @m_evans10 and +MichaelEvans @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelk

Friend of the show -and one of the finest gentlemen we know- Mark Allison chats with us about Constraint Layouts, what they are, why you need them, what to watch out for and how you can start using them in your application. Show Notes Styling Android - Mark's blog [stylingandroid.com] Marks' Constraint Layout Series: [stylingandroid.com] Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Introducing Constraint Layout [tools.android.com] Wolfram's post: Some thoughts on Android's new Constraint Layout and Android Studio's new Design Editor [grokkingandroid.com] ADB episode-50 [androidbackstage.blogspot.com] Sponsor Hired - special offer: double the signing bonus! Contact @MarkIAllison and Styling Android @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

Friend of the show Dan Lew makes a return! In this show Kaushik talks to Dan about translating an app for other languages. Show Notes Ep 39: Elliot Chenger [fragmentedpodcast.com] AutoFitting TextViews [github.com] Transifex - service for helping with translations Pseudo localization [danlew.net] Xliff [wikipedia.org] Phrase lib by Square [github.com] Ahmed's Droidcon SF talk: From Right to Left and Back [youtube.com] Internationalis(z)ing Code - Computerphile [youtube.com] What your emojis actually look like [youtube.com] Sponsor Hired - special offer: double the signing bonus! Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @danlew42 [twitter.com] and Dan's website [danlew.net] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

2016's first installment of a grand bonanza of tips and tricks for #AndroidDev! Donn and Kaushik talk about all the tips and tricks they've picked up over the first part of this year. Show Notes [Orthogonal podcast](http://spec.fm/podcasts/orthogonal GDG - Google Developer Groups [developers.google.com] Ep 028: Fragmented - tips and tricks from 2015 [fragmentedpodcast.com] DF: Developer happiness is a real thing; Learn Kotlin. KG: Prevent logcat clearing on app crash link 1 [stackoverflow.com] link 2 [stackoverflow.com] KG: IntelliJ command line launcher: git diffing [pontarelli.com] regular diffing [jetbrains.com] IO 2016 session: Expert guide to Android Studio [youtube.com] DF: KeyPromoter plugin [jetbrains.com] Philippe Breault [developerphil.com] DF: Window management tool Divvy [mizage.com] Moom [manytricks.com] Slant article comparing window management tools (for the Mac) [slant.com] Phoenix - lightweight open source js configurable tool [github.com] Annyce' caster.io videos [caster.io] DF

In this episode we talk to Trello Engineer, GDE, Youtuber, Caster IO instructor and View magician Huyen about all things custom View/ViewGroups. Show Notes Android Dialogs [youtube.com] Huyen's Custom Views/View Groups Part 1 [caster.io] How Android draws views [developer.android.com] Resources Huyen's caster.io series [caster.io] New Circle - Enhancing Android UI with Custom Views [youtube.com] Loving Lean Layouts - DroidCon SF 2016 [youtube.com] Custom Layouts on Android - Lucas Rocha [lucasr.org] Taming Android UI's - Erik Burke - Square [youtube.com] Android Performance Patterns - Custom Views and Performance [youtube.com] Contact @queencodemonkey or randomlytyping.com @fragmentedcast or Contact form @donnfelker or +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal or +KaushikGopalIsMe