Fragmented - Android Developer Podcast

In this episode, we resume our conversation with Airbnb's Gabriel Peal. If you haven't listened to part 1, you really really should go back and do that. In that episode, we kicked it off by first trying to understand the goals and the story behind why React Native was chosen as the code sharing technology/tool. After two years, 220 screens, and 120,000 lines of javascript, Gabriel tells us why they're moving away from React Native. Show Notes The post that kicked it all off Flow - static type checker for Javascript Babel -Javascript compiler Heisenbugs Bugsnag RecyclerView : UICollectionView Facebook blot post: State of React Native 2018 Kotlin Extensions Kotlin Delegated properties Epoxy Contact @gpeal8 [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

If you haven't heard, Airbnb has decided to move away from React Native. Friend of the show Gabriel Peal wrote an in-depth series of blog posts about this. We had so many questions around this that we asked him to come on the show and he graciously accepted to answer some of our questions. It's always a pleasure listening to his insights and this episode is no exception! Listen on: Show Notes React Native The post that kicked off this show Spike Brehm Leland Richardson Building a visual language - DLS Yoga library - cross layout engine YogaLayout - Android Sponsors Bitrise - Bitrise is your mobile continuous integration and delivery for your whole team, with dozens of integrations for your favorite services. Contact @gpeal8 [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In today's episode, we are joined by Sam Bobra - engineering manager @VSCO, android fangirl and gRPC magician (some would go so far as to say evangelist !) to talk about gRPC on Android. Super informative episode! Show Notes VSCO Sam's DroidconSF 2017 - Thinking Beyond the REST API: gRPC for Android Microservices Go (programming language) Implementation Protocol Buffers protobuf-gradle-plugin Reactive gRPC Differences between gRPC & graphQL Misc codegen grpc-Java codegen grpc-Lite codegen Wire Curling: grpcurl envoy Sponsors Bitrise.io Virtual Device Testing: full integration with Firebase Test Lab, run emulators quickly and reliably Contact @samwritescode [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @ryanjsalva @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In today's episode, we sit down with Caren Chang from June to talk about audio engineering for Android. More specifically, how stoves can use audio to send notifications. Show Notes Caren's "Learning Kotlin in Action" summary blog post series June Oven June Oven Video Apis Audio Latency MediaPlayer SoundPool ExoPlayer Resources Droidcon Boston Caster.IO - ExoPlayer course Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @calren24 @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @ryanjsalva @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode, we continue with Part 2 of this GraphQL series. If you haven't listed to episode 125 already, it might make sense to first listen to that one cause we go into the basics of GraphQL. In this episode, we dive into the specifics of Apollo and how Mike went about creating a GraphQL client for Android. Let's get on with Part 2. Show Notes GraphQL GraphQL specification Apollo Apollo Android - GraphQL Client for Android Resources droidcon NYC 2017 - GraphQL on Android is here! Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @friendlymikhail @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode, we talk about GraphQL. Friend and GDE Mike Nakhimovich helped create the library Apollo for Android, which is the defacto official GraphQL client for Android. In this first part of two, we take a step back and first try to understand what GraphQL is, why one would use it, how Mike set out to create and contribute Apollo for Android and his journey and satisfaction with open sourcing it when he worked at the New York Times. If you've ever been interested in GraphQL, this is a good show to get you up to speed. Download directly Show notes GraphQL Sample GraphQL servers Github explorer Star Wars api GraphQLCMS visualization Shopify GraphQL Explorer Resources React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the hood of the Times website redesign The New York Times - Now on Apollo Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @friendlymikhail @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode of Fragmented, Kaushik talks to Chiuki & Huyen from Android Dialogs and Russell & Philip from Pocket Casts. Fresh after IO we huddled in a room to talk about our first impressions and what we thought were some of the highlights for us Android developers. Hope you enjoy the show! (if you want to see a behind the scenes crossover special, make sure to subscribe to Android Dialogs!) Show Notes Android Dialogs Chiuki @chiuki Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey Android Dialogs on YouTube Pocket Casts Russell Ivanovic @rustyshelf Phil of PocketCasts @geekygecko Pocket Casts Wall Street Journal - Public Radio organizations buy Pocket Casts io2018 stuff Google I/O 2018: What's new in Android Google Duplex announcement at Google IO Android Jetpack (intro video) Android Jetpack: manage UI navigation with Navigation Controller (Google I/O '18) Material theming Material Theme Editor (Sketch plugin) Video 1: Guide to the new material.io website Video 2: Build great Material Design products across p

With good -most of the time- also comes the bad. In this episode, Kaushik and Donn chat about the small annoying things about being an Android developer, or more aptly - "Micro Frustrations". We usually cover the new, latest, greatest and awesome developments. But it helps to step back and also point out the things that are broken and the 1000 cuts so to speak. Sit back and enjoy this hearty rant! Shownotes F**k you Android layout complaints Kotlin Android Extensions Anko layouts (slightly different from Kotlin Android extensions) Android Studio 3.1 Stable - Build successful but can't resolve error Navigation & System bar frustrations: How do I ge the height and width of the android navigation bar If you're looking for a solution to just hide system bar (and not the navigation bar) go to our main shownotes page to see the code. Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter

In this episode of learning kotlin, we look at the typealias keyword. The typealias keyword allows you to provide alternate names for existing types and and function types. Learn how, why and when you can use it in this episode Show Notes Kotlin Inline functions Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode of Fragmented, we wrap up another 2 part series. We dive into the details of the Arrow library with this one. Arrow is a library in Kotlin that helps bring many of the functional paradigms of programming to your daily development. We talk to the team about how it all started, the history of the library, why we even need arrow, how Arrow is structured, some of the pitfalls, and in the end some resources on getting us started with Arrow. Show Notes Arrow library Raul: Announcing Arrow for Kotlin Jorge: Caster.io course - FP in Kotlin with Arrrow Jorge: Kotlin Conf - Architectures Using Functional Programming Concepts Paco: Arrow as a companion to Kotlin Paco: Simple dependency injection in Kotlin (part 1) Mario: Book on FP Arrow Library eco system: Ank, Kollect, Helios Misc Arrow V 0.7.0 - now available Higher Kinded types KEEP - Type classes and Higher Kinded Types proposal Kotlin Arrow docs Get help on Arrrow KotlinLang slack channel #arrow Gitter: Arrow Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – S

In this episode of Fragmented, we kick off another 2 part series. This time it's with the Kotlin Arrow team! In the first part, we talk to Jorge, Raul and Paco about Functional programming in general, some core FP concepts, do we already use functional programming today, what are pure functions, do I need to know complicated math to do FP, Immutability, Referential transparency and so much more. These are all pretty daunting words, but the Arrow team break it down and make it really simple for us to understand. Show Notes Kotlin Arrow team Paco (website) Raúλ Raja Jorge Castillo Mario Arias (in spirit) Misc Arrow KT 47 degrees Jorge's caster.io course Blogs & Presentations on FP - Arrow docs Raul's presentation on Functional programming patterns Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] Paco Raúλ Raja Jorge Castillo Mario Arias (in spirit) @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushik

In part 2 of this series, To help us understand Flutter in-depth we talk to Flutter's GDE Eugenio Marletti. In Part 1 of this 2 part series, Eugenio helps us undersatnd what flutter is, why it was created, how it works, some really cool features with Flutter and why an AndroiDev today should really give Flutter a good look. We got so carried away in conversation, that we were forced to break this episode into two parts. If you missed part 1 but want go back and listen you'll find it here: 118: Flutter and cross platform development with GDE Eugenio Marletti - Part 1) Show Notes RxDart Dart 2 Flutter Weekly Flutter on Gitter Flutter on Codelab Flutter on Github https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.flutter.gallery&hl=en Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @workingkills [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode, we dive into one of our most requested topics and highly anticipated ones - Flutter. To help us understand Flutter in-depth, we talk to Flutter's GDE Eugenio Marletti. In Part 1 of this 2 part series, Eugenio helps us understand what flutter is, why it was created, how it works, some really cool features with Flutter and why an AndroiDev today should really give Flutter a good look. We got so carried away in conversation, that we were forced to break this episode into two parts. Stay tuned for Part 2. Show Notes Clue app Announcing Flutter beta 1 Embedding Flutter into an existing app (examples flutter_view & platform_view) Stepper widget Getting started on Flutter (docs) Compiled vs Interpreted languages Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @workingkills [twitter.com] @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik sit down to talk about multi-module builds with Gradle. They talk about how you can separate your build into multiple different modules and how you might go about implementing it. They discuss build performance with incremental compilation, isolation of features, code ownership and how to handle cross-cutting concerns like persistence and networking. Show Notes Instant Apps Episode Android Library Module vs Feature Module Implementation vs Compile - A Visual Guide Writing a Modular app in Android ButterKnife Woes Android Studio and Pure Java Modules Sam Edwards buildSrc and build.gradle Autocomplete Post Sam Edwards Gradle Ext Video Sam Edwards Gradle AutoComplete Phil Breault Renaming Gradle Build Files Google Arch Samples - versions.gradle Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode of learning kotlin, we look at 3 important keywords - inline, noinline and crossinline. The inline keyword is super common and you've probably run across this one at some point. What does it mean and when is it useful? We also look at the related but seldom used variants noinline and crossinline. Show Notes Kotlin Inline functions Code Snippets: Look at the official shownotes page for some code snippets Misc: PublishedApi annotation Matt Logan's post on inline keyword Ben Daniel Medium post - inline, noinline, crossinline — What do they mean? Sponsors Microsoft AppCenter – Sign up now on appcenter.ms and spend less time managing your app lifecycle and more time coding. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and

In this episode, we talk about the different parts of Android architecture components. We've had episodes on Room and the paging library, so in this one, we thought we'll touch a little on Lifecycle Owners & Observers, ViewModels, and LiveData. Akshay Chordiya helps break it down. Listen on! Show Notes Android Architecture Components Lifecycle Handling lifecycles with Lifecycle-Aware Components Lifecycle Owner Lifecycle Observer Best practices for lifecycle-aware components Caveat: handling onStop events ViewModels Architecture Guide: ViewModels View Model Code snippet for a ViewModelFactory: class UserVMFactory( val user: MyUser ) : ViewModelProvider.Factory { override fun create(modelClass: Class): T { return when { modelClass.isAssignableFrom(UserVM::class.java) -> UserVM(user) as T else -> throw IllegalArgumentException("Unknown ViewModel class") } } } LiveData L

In this episode, we talk to Patrick Nikoletich from Microsofts App Center team. We explore the intricacies of the Continuous Integration server system on the App Center platform. From what App Center is, all the way down into the weeds to how to get your app building on App Center in a few short steps. We also get into the nitty gritty details around how you can customize your build with build hooks, install utilities and binaries, work with a command line interface, shell scripts, the App Center API much much more. This episode shows a new side of Microsoft that we have not seen in a long time and its a breath of fresh air. Also, view the show notes at http://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/114/ Show Notes VSTS: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/ Microsoft on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft The App Center CLI: https://github.com/Microsoft/appcenter-cli Azure function that automatically creates branch configurations for PR's and communicates status back to Github.: https://github.com/pniko/fun

In this episode we catch up with a highly energetic but sick Christina Lee about the delightful details in the Pinterest app, delving with the dark side (Swift), giving live coding presentation talks and touching on some Kotlin details like covariance and contravariance. Listen on for a power-packed 40 minutes. Show Notes Google IO episode (#84) for Christina's running story Pinterest app Calligraphy by Chris Jenkins Android 8.0 Custom fonts Material design guidelines Brio design system by Pinterest's Lin Wang and Thorben Primke Pinterest stars you should follow on Twitter -> Mallika & Alice Christina's code from Kotlintown talk Christina & Huyen presentation from KotlinConf 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. Show Notes Google IO episode (#84) for Christina's running story Pinte

In this mini-fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #9 of the Effective Java (Third Edition) book - Prefer try with resources to try finally. Please note, this episode references the third edition of the Effective Java book that recently came out. Previously we were doing the entire series on version 2, but we are now upgrading to version 3 of the book. We will not be re-doing any of the existing lessons, but if one was inserted in the mix, then we will do that lesson. Links Effective Java (3rd Edition) Book 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] @donnfelker and

In this mini-fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #5 of the Effective Java (Third Edition) book - Prefer Dependency Injection to Hardwiring Resources. Please note, this episode references the third edition of the Effective Java book that recently came out. Previously we were doing the entire series on version 2, but we are now upgrading to version 3 of the book. We will not be re-doing any of the existing lessons, but if one was inserted in the mix, then we will do that lesson. This is the case with Item #5. We did Item #5 previously for v2 of the book, but v3 introduced a new Item 5 (and bumped the previous Item 5 up to 6). TLDR; Item #5 is new in the third edition of the Effective Java book. So listen closely. :) Links Effective Java (3rd Edition) Book 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.