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070: An honest discussion about Realm Jan 16, 2017

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In this episode Donn and Kaushik have an honest discussion about Realm (a client side database). Donn has worked pretty extensively with Realm and even consulted for their Android platform previously. But Kaushik has only recently tried it out on a production app.

In this episode they have an honest and frank discussion about using Realm, the advantages, the disadvantages, the gotchas and if it makes sense to use a database like Realm as an Android developer today.

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069: Talking Buck with Uber engineer Gautam Korlam (part 2) Jan 09, 2017

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We're back with part 2 of our Buck episode. We continue our chat with Uber Engineer, Gautam. We dive into the details of how buck is used, how you can use it and how it can help you and your team. Learn about how to use it with Gradle and more with OkBuck.

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Build systems

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okBuck (adopting Buck easily) [github.com]
Buck - Exopackage
Watchman

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What makes Buck so fast
Gautam's talk on okBuck at Droidcon NYC [youtube.com] (Slides)

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068: Talking Buck with Uber engineer Gautam Korlam Jan 02, 2017

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We kick off 2017 talking to Uber Engineer Gautam. In first part of this 2 part series, Gautam talks to us about the Uber Android app, the complexity in the architecture, the scaling challenges, the pain points Android developers faced working on such a massive app.

He then goes on to explain how his team (Android Developer Experience) at Uber have approached these challenges and come up with elegant solutions.

We then dive head deep into Buck - the build system for Android development, it's advantages and the benefits that the folks at Uber have observed having migrated.

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Build systems

Misc

okBuck (adopting Buck easily) [github.com]
Buck - Exopackage
Watchman

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What makes Buck so fast
Gautam's talk on okBuck at Droidcon NYC [youtube.com] (Slides)

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067: Cross platform development with Xamarin cofounder Joseph Hill Dec 19, 2016

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In this episode, Donn talks with Xamarin cofounder on how one can use Xamarin for Android development.

They start off chatting about using Xamarin just for business logic sharing. This Joseph tells us was the original intention for use. They also touch on Xamarin forms which allows you to additionally build UI elements cross platform.

Even if you don't use Xamarin or plan to use Xamarin right away, this was a fantastic insight into the platform, from the creators directly. They touch on advantages, how to really leverage the platform and potential downsides.

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Xamarin
Developer guides (Joseph mentioned they're particularly proud of this one)
Xamarin University
Download Visual Studio
Xamarin Forms

Apps using Xamarin for Code sharing

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066: Let's talk Immutability, Value Types and AutoValue with Ryan Harter Dec 12, 2016

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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.

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About Ryan

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AutoValue

AutoValue
AutoValue Builders
AutoValue Factory (different from AutoValue Builders)
Difference between Builder and Factory patterns [stackoverflow.com]

AutoValue extensions

Ryan's blog post
AutoValue Parcel [github.com/rharter]
AutoValue Cursor [github.com/gabrielittner]
AutoValue Redacted [github.com/square]
AutoValue Moshi [github.com/rharter]
AutoValue Gson [github.com/rharter]
AutoValue Firebase [github.com/mattlogan]

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065: Developer Platform engineering with Ty Smith Dec 05, 2016

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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.

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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? Ain't Nobody Got Time For That! by Ty Smith [youtube.com]
Content providers [developer.android.com]
AIDL (Andorid Interface Definition Language) [developer.android.com]
- TransactionTooLargeException [developer.android.com]

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064: Garbage Collection (Android) vs Reference Counting (iOS) Nov 21, 2016

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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 😁 ? Listen on for all the juicy details...

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Garbage collection (Android)

Garbage collection [wikipedia.org]
How GC works in Dalvik [medium.com]
How GC works with circular references [stackoverflow.com]

Reference counting (iOS)

Reference counting [wikipedia.org]
An in-depth look at manual memory management in Objective C [tomdalling.com]
Memory management in Objective C [rypress.com]
Weak, strong, unowned, oh my! (references in Swift) [krakendev.io]

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063: Effective Java for Android Developers – Item #13: Minimize the accessibility of classes and members Nov 14, 2016

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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.

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@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

062: Effective Java for Android Developers – Item #12: Consider Implementing Comparable Nov 07, 2016

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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.

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BuddyBuild

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@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

061: The state of event bus(es) today Oct 24, 2016

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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.

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