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160: Increase App Engagement with Android Q May 13, 2019

Show notes

With the release of Android Q we now have the settings panel and all its glory. This panel, while most likely overlooked as a minor feature, is actually a diamond in the rough.

Why?

Simply because it's going to lower the abandonment rate of your app and increase the engagement of your app at the same time. Donn talks about this in depth in this episode.

Enjoy.

Shownotes

Android Q Features

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/

Contact

Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

159: Improve Your App with the Android Material Components (feat. Cameron Ketcham & Connie Shi) May 06, 2019

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In this show, Donn and Kaushik talk to Cameron Ketcham and Connie Shi from the Android Material Components team at Google.

The Android Material Components are material designed components that you can easily drop into your application with just a few small tweaks. You get a bunch of fully built out material components, from the Android Material team at Google. From Chips, to Cards, to Buttons and much much more ... the goal is to enable you to build your application faster when using these components.

Donn and Kaushik talk to Cameraon and Connie about the components and how to use them in this episode.

Enjoy

Shownotes

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/

Contact

Contact Cameron and Connit at - GitHub Issues, StackOverflow
Donn Felker - @donnfelker (Twitter) and donnfelker (Instagram)
Kaushik Gopal - @kaushikgopal (Twitter) and kaushikgopal (Instagram)
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158: Building High Performance Audio on Android Apr 29, 2019

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In this show, Donn and Kaushik talk to Don Turner about how to build high-performance audio apps on Android.

We dive deep into history of audio on Android, some of the problems that the platform faced. Then look into the tools that we now have to solve those problems so that developers like you can build killer audio apps.

Enjoy.

Shownotes

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io

Contact

Don Turner - @donturner
Donn Felker - @donnfelker (Twitter) and donnfelker (Instagram)
Kaushik Gopal - @kaushikgopal (Twitter) and kaushikgopal (Instagram)
Fragmented on Twitter: @fragmentedcast
Our YouTube channel
Join thousands of other developers on our free chat server. Ask questions, answer questions, be part of the community at our The Fragmented Discord chat

157: Effective Java Item# 20 - Prefer interfaces to abstract classes Apr 01, 2019

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In this episode, Donn talks about Item #20 in the Effective Java book (third series) by Joshua Bloch. He discusses why you should think about using interfaces over abstract classes, how they can add mixin like behavior to retrofit existing classes with new behavior, default methods, skeleton implementations and more.

Enjoy.

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/

Contact

Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

156: Increase App Engagement with Android Q Mar 18, 2019

Show notes

With the release of Android Q we now have the settings panel and all its glory. This panel, while most likely overlooked as a minor feature, is actually a diamond in the rough.

Why?

Simply because it's going to lower the abandonment rate of your app and increase the engagement of your app at the same time. Donn talks about this in depth in this episode.

Enjoy.

Shownotes

Android Q Features

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/

Contact

Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

155: Naming conventions for RxJava Observables Mar 11, 2019

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The Android community has come to use Rx pretty heavily but surprisingly there hasn't been any one convention that's won, when it comes to how we name our functions that return Observables. getUser(), user(), userUpdates() ? In this mini-episode dutifully does the yak-shaving for you and discusses what some options are and what the community has been gravitating towards.

Enjoy.

Shownotes

yak-shaving

Upday's convention:

Options

// option 1
fun getUser(): Single
// yuck

// option 2
fun user(): Observable
// but what does this mean?

// option 3
fun user(): Single
fun userUpdates(): Observable
// or
fun userStream(): Observable
// this is looking good

// option 4 (upday style)
fun userOnce(): Single
fun userStream(): Observable
fun userOnceAndStream(): Observable

Stay tuned for a future episode, where we discuss more details and more complicated cases to handle (like emitting a list of user, policies for fetching the first user as quickly as possible etc.).

Also #FinishNotation.

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/

Contact

Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

154: Developer Growth: Start Writing Mar 05, 2019

Show notes

Growing as a developer is important for you, your career and your future. One of the best ways to grow your career is to start writing.

Donn recommends starting a blog or contributing to a blog. The process of writing will expose your weak points in your comprehension of a topic. Refining your communication skills through writing and putting thoughts out into the universe via a blog will broaden your skills as a developer.

Ultimately, writing is about communication and communication is the cornerstone of success in much of anything. In this episode, Donn walks you through why you should start writing to help you grow as a developer.

Enjoy.

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io - Your code is broken. Let’s fix it together - https://sentry.io/for/android/
Instabug -They're giving a special offer for all listeners, go to instabug.com/fragmented, signup, install the SDK, and you will get a free Instabug t-shirt and a 14-day free trial.

Contact

Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or [our Youtube channel][10]
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

153: How to be an indie Android developer with Chris Lacy Feb 19, 2019

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Listen to all star Indie developer and friend of the show Chris Lacy. Chris Lacy created the beloved Action Launcher - arguably one of the best Launcher apps on Android. In this epiisode, he talks to us about what it's like being an indie developer, starting on Action Launcher and of course his newest creation - ActionDash.

Enjoy.

Shownotes

ActionDash

Sponsors 🙏

Contact

@chrismlacy or work with him or leave a 5 star reviews on ActionDash :)
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

152: Should I Rewrite My App? with Jeroen Mols Feb 11, 2019

Show notes

After you've been working on an app for sometime, the most common quandry one runs into is the need to rewrite the app. We've all been there, there's technical debt, we've improved our understanding, the tools have become better, we've become better. So should you go back and just rewrite the whole app? Jeroen walks us through his thinking.

Shownotes

The big Rewrite - Jeroen's talk
- Droidcon Italy
- Slides for the talk with notes
Philips Hue
Philips Hue API

Resources

Sponsors 🙏

sentry.io

Contact

@molsjeroen or his blog or his speakerdeck
Discord chat or @fragmentedcast or our Youtube channel
@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

151: Evolving Android architectures (Part 2) Feb 04, 2019

Show notes

In this episode, we continue our discussion from episode 148 on evolving android architectures. We collected some of the questions from the community and try to answer them.