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**Fragmented – AI Developer Podcast**

Fragmented is an AI developer podcast for engineers who want to go beyond vibe coding and ship real software.

We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with AI tools. No hype. No “I shipped a SaaS in a weekend” stories. Just tactics that work.

Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza — software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products.

From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.

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090: Make your apps instant with Zarah Dominguez Jul 17, 2017

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At I/O '16 Google announced the super cool new feature Instant Apps. At IO'17 we started to see real world examples and third parties pull off this feature. In this episode, we talk to GDE Zarah Dominguez who's company "Domain" was one of the partners for this program.

What is the Instant Apps feature? What are some usecases where this comes in handy? How does it actually work internally? What does it take for a developer to implement this feature in their own app? Listen on to find out!

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089: Learning Kotlin - Properties a first class language feature Jul 10, 2017

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In this mini Fragment, KG talks about his journey learning Kotlin as a newb. Given that Kotlin is most likely going to be the de-facto language for most developers, it makes sense to deepen our understanding of the language (as we have strived with Java over the years).

"Properties" in Kotlin are a first class language feature. But what does that actually mean? What are the nifty features we get with properties? How are these resolved from a Java class when there's potential a name clash? What are some other gotchas and learnings from using properties? Listen on to find out:

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088: Offensive programming Jul 03, 2017

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In this episode of Fragmented we talk to our friend Piwai from Square.

Piwai's a pro at testing and breaking apps (he built LeakCanary - so not terribly unexpected). He teaches us some strategies on debugging app crashes and briefs us on this concept he calls "offensive programming" which has helped him a lot with his Android development.

It's good stuff and we hope you enjoy the show.

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087: Effective Java - Item #16: Favor Composition over Inheritance Jun 19, 2017

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In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #16 of the Effective Java series - Favor Composition over Inheritance. You'll learn why using inheritance is not always a great idea and how you can use composition in place of it to make your code more anti-fragile, resilient and clean.

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086: Working Effectively With Legacy Code Jun 12, 2017

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In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He doesn't just talk about the book itself, but he talks about how to approach a legacy code base and start delivering value as soon as possible, yet with confidence. If you've recently started a new job, moved to a new team, started working on an existing code base, then this episode is bound to help you.

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085: Casual Kotlin conversation with Dan Kim Jun 05, 2017

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In this episode, we talk to Dan Kim about Kotlin. Dan is an Android developer at the company Basecamp and has some great Kotlin posts on the company's famous blog Signal Vs Noise. He was pretty early, on the Kotlin train and has been working with the new language for quite sometime now.

Instead of trying to go into every single detail about Kotlin, the nuances of the language, it's syntax etc. we take a more general approach and talk about starting out on Kotlin, how does on go about migrating an Android codebase to Kotlin, what are things we should watch out for when using the language. This and a whole lot more!

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Kotlin view (binding) libs

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Jake's youtube video
Dan's blog posts:
- How we made Basecamp 3’s Android app 100% Kotlin
- Some of my favorite Kotlin features
Android development with Kotlin - Jake Wharton (video)
Introduction to Kotlin - Google I/O 17 (video)

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084: Kaush and Donn go to Google IO 2017 May 22, 2017

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This was truly one of the most memorable IOs Google has ever conducted. In keeping with tradition, Donn and Kaushik talk with a bunch of awesome #AndroidDev and get their opinions/thoughts on IO and Android in general. As always, these are super fun episodes.

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Dan Kim (Basecamp)
- @dankim or dan@basecamp.com
- Vysor app
- Mark Allison - being brave with the O preview
Patryk Poborca (Kozio Digital)
- @patrykpoborca
- Trello app
Jerrell Mardis (Salesforce)
Annyce Davis (Offgrid Electric)
Zac Sweers (Uber)
Matt Kranzler (Salesforce)
- @mattkranzler
- Flamingo app
Roberto Orgiu (Caster)
- @_tiwiz
Christina Lee (Pinterest)
Hugo Visser (Little Robots)
- @botteaap or +HugoVisser
- Android APT
Raveesh Bhalla
- @raveeshbhalla
- Enki app
Etienne Caron (Shopify)
- @kanawish
- Safari Queue app
Chris Jenkins (Owlr)
Brenda Cook (Seesaw)
Joaquim (Twitch)

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083: Learning the basics of functional programing with Anup Cowkur May 15, 2017

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RxJava is considered a functional reactive programming library. But the paradigms of functional programming have existed for a very long time. In this episode we talk to Android GDE Anup Cowkur, about his experience experimenting with "pure" functional languages. He breaks down some of the basic concepts, explaining the different terms along the way.

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082: Airbnb's Gabriel tells us how to animate with Lottie May 08, 2017

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It's pretty awesome, when you use a third party library, love using it and finally get to talk to the person who actually helped build it. In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Peal. Besides having quite the illustrious career in Android development, Gabriel now works at Airbnb and helped build Lottie - an animation library.

What is Lottie, how do you use Lottie? why is so Lottie so cool? how does it actually work under the hood? Listen to this episode and find out.

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081: Talking Android Things with Rebecca Franks May 01, 2017

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It is the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Google's answer to that is the Android Things. In this episode, we talk to the amazing Rebecca Franks. She explains how Android things works and talks of some of the adventures and examples she's embarked on with Android Things. If you've had that hobby Raspberry Pi or Arduino board lying around and not sure how to put it to use, this episode's for you.

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