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060: Smoke and Mirror Android UI tricks with Israel Oct 17, 2016

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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.

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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]

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059: Interview with Chiu-Ki Oct 10, 2016

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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!

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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.javaworld.com/article/2074508/core-java/mocks-and-stubs---understanding-test-doubles-with-mockito.html) [objc.io]
Mocks aren't Stubs [martinfowler.com]

Mockito

Mockito library [github.com]
Stubbing consecutive calls [mockito.org]
Argument Captor [mockito.org]
PowerMock [github.com]

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058: Effective Java for Android Developers – Item #11: Override clone Judiciously Oct 03, 2016

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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.

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

057: Data Binding with GDE Lisa Wray Sep 19, 2016

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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.

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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 [androidbackstage.com]

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056: GDE Philippe Breault on tinkering with Android Studio (Part II) Sep 13, 2016

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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.

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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:

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055: GDE Philippe discusses Tinkering with Android Studio - Part I Sep 12, 2016

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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.

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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]

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054: Git Development Workflow and Branch Versioning for App Devs Sep 05, 2016

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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.

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Follow up

Misc

TortoiseSVN
A successful git branching model
DiffMerge by SourceGear
realm-java open source repo (shows branch naming convention)
Semantic versioning spec

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053: Jake Wharton on RxJava (2) Aug 22, 2016

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We have Jake Wharton and RxJava in one episode 💥. In this power-packed episode we talk to Jake about the advances in RxJava 1.x since the last time he was on the show and also looking ahead at the advancements coming down with RxJava 2. If you're interested in RxJava, this episode will definitely be a treat!

Watch out for a special guest cameo by the adorable Olive.

Show Notes

Fragmented Episode 6: with Jake [fragmentedpodcast.com]
Fragmented Episode 7: with Jake [fragmentedpodcast.com]
Looking ahead to RxJava 2 [droidcon.nyc] - Jake’s upcoming talk at DroidCon 2016
Retrolambda usage [github.com]
Single
- Documentation [reactivex.io]
- Origin github issue discussion [github.com]
Libraries used:
- RxRelay [github.com/JakeWharton]
- RxReplayingShare [github.com/JakeWharton]
- SqlBrite [github.com]
- RxBindings [github.com]
- Note about the warmth of the share operator [blog.kaush.co]

Looking ahead

Reactive Streams specification [reactive-streams.org]
Using Observable fromAsync [stackoverflow.com/documentation] (released with 1.1.7)
RxJava2 release schedule [github.com]
Completable
RxJava 2.0 Design: Naming [github.com]
Backpressure types - buffer, latest, drop

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052: Junit4 tricks with @Parameterized @Enclosing tests Aug 15, 2016

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

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Junit4 introduced with Android Studio 1.1 [tools.android.com]
Junit4 Parameterized tests [github.com]
Calculator example from googlesamples [github.com]
Sample template code for Enclosed.class [gist.github.com]

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051: Annotation processing Q&A with GDE Mike Evans Aug 08, 2016

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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]

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