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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.

Latest Episodes:

040: Internal Library Dependency Management with GDE Kelly Shuster May 16, 2016

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In this mini episode, we talk with the lovely Kelly Shushter about Internal Library Dependency Management. Kelly is a GDE, the Director of Women Who Code (Denver chapter), a developer at Thoughtbot, a mind blowingly good AndroidDev and just an all round boss of everything.

She gives us the rundown explaining different strategies for maintaining and managing internal libraries in your organization/company.

Show Notes

Women Who Code [womenwhocode.com]
Droidcon SF 2015 - Android Internal Library Dependency Management [youtube.com]
Fixing a bug later is costly? [programmers.stackexchange.com]

Solutions

Git submodules [git-scm.com]
Repo by Google [source.android.com]
Artifactory - Jfrog [jfrog.com]
Jitpack [jitpack.io]
Kelly's hack to toggle between maven lib dependency and local source [github.com]

Contact

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

039: Talking TextView with Elliott Chenger May 09, 2016

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In this episode we chat with our friend an all round amazing AndroidDev Elliott Chenger. Elliot does Android development for Under Armour and knows a thing or two about TextViews. We talk TextViews, font rendering complications in Android, performance optimizations, localization (vs internationalization), ECDC (it's a thing!) and wind the discussion off with some design software tools out there.

Show Notes

Under Armour : Health box [underarmour.com]
Droidcon NYC 2015 - TextView how to turn design into reality for multiple languages [youtube.com]
Android’s Font Renderer : Efficient text rendering with OpenGL ES Romain Guy [medium.com]
DÖnn Fëlker
TextView packages : Slide from Elliott's talk [speakerdeck.com]
Static Layout [developer.android.com]
Boring Layout [developer.android.com]

Performance

Traceview in Android Studio [tools.android.com]
Profile GPU rendering
Static Layout : for text that will not be edited after it is laid out
Dynamic Layout : text layout that updates itself as the text is edited
Improving comment rendering on Android [instagram-engineering.tumblr.com]
Sample implementation of technique Instagram describes [stackoverflow.com]
Simple trick explaining TextView wrap_content vs fixed height
Energy glitches with Apple music app
Google Localization Checklist [developer.android.com]

Design tools

Zeplin
Red Pen
Sketch 3 For Android Developers (Big Android BBQ 2015) [youtube.com]
Sketch app

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Contact

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

038: What Android Devs Need to know about N May 02, 2016

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik look at the Android N developer preview. They highlight the biggest changes that you as an Android Developer should keep an eye out for. There are tonne of features in N, so listen to this episode to get the highlights.

Show Notes

First preview of Android N: Developer API & Tools [android-developers.blogspot.com]
Instruction for setting up your dev environment for the N preview (~=> Lambda support) [developer.android.com]
Java 8 Language features [developer.android.com]
ADB episode : 45 State of the Art
Lambdas do not retain enclosing reference (unless really needed)
- commit note on Jack toolchain [android.googlesource.com]
- JacklrBuilder source createMethodInfoforLambda [android.googlesource.com]
- RxJava Android Samples using lambdas [github.com]
- javap - The Java class file Disassembler [docs.oracle.com]
Issue tracking Annotation processing options in Jack [code.google.com]
Other Java 8 language features for N [developer.android.com]
Android MultiWindow features [developer.android.com]
GCM Network Manager a.k.a Job Scheduler [developers.google.com]
Android Notification styles [developer.android.com]

Resources

What’s new in Android N: Ian Lake + Joanna smith [youtube.com]
5 tips for preparing for multi window in Android N: Ian Lake [medium.com]
DroidCon SF keynote: Chet and Romain [youtube.com]
Random musing on the N developer preview [commonsware.com]

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

037: Decompress 1 : Xcode, Fonts sizes, Testing and yes Agera! Apr 25, 2016

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In this very first edition of our Decompress episode we talk about life being code as an Android developer, some Xcode hating, Testing woes and the intensly discussed library that Google recently released Agera!

Shownotes:

Agera

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036: Working Remotely Apr 18, 2016

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In this mini Fragment we touch on a highly requested topic - working remotely. Donn talks about how to ease into remote working, tools for working remotely, tips and tricks for staying sane and productive while remote and he wraps it up by discussing the benefits employers have when hiring a remote workforce.

Show Notes

Remote work is best suited for information workers (programmers, designers, engineers, etc)
Read Remote by DHH and Jason Fried
- Great book that echoes what I feel about working remote.
- Tip: Listen to it on Audible, it's faster to consume.
How to ease into remote work at your current job
- Convince manager to allow a 1 day trial for one - three months.
- Remote day should be on Friday (fewer critical things happen on Friday, on average)
- After trial, if success, aim for 2-3 days of remote work. (Again, do this at the end of the week. Wed,Thu, Fri)
- Once successful, rally for full week of remote with an occasional in office visit (a day every week work two)

Staying sane while working remote

Donn's blog post on this topic
Create a work day schedule (5am-2pm, 8am-5pm, 10am-7pm, etc)
- When you're done, you're done. Leave work (your office/etc).
Schedule. Schedule. Schedule. Stick to a schedule.
- Get up at the same time
- Get dressed for work (no PJ's etc)
- Do your hair.
- Be presentable
- This is all mental
Prepare for the day
- Get coffee/tea/water and snacks
- Try to limit the opportunity of distractions
During the day
- Take a lunch, away from your desk.
- Go out for lunch with someone (significant other, friend, etc) at one to two times a week.
- Work out of the house a couple times a week, this increases our creativity.
Outside of Work
- You need social interaction, Cabin Fever is a real thing.
- Exercise 3-4 times a week if possible.
- Group classes are perfect for this.
  - CrossFit
  - Martial Arts
  - Yoga
  - Pilates
  - etc
Communication When Remote
- Put 3x-4x more effort into communicating than previous. You're not visible seen so you need to be more vocal.
  - Call
  - SMS
  - Blow up the Slack/Hipchat channel/etc
  - Objective - Clear your own path

Tools

For remote to work effectively, everything should be considered remote. If one employee is remote, then all meetings should occur as if the team is remote. This ensures that everyone can work effectively without missing anything.
Communication
- Group Chat
  - Slack
  - HipChat
- Video Chat
  - Google Hangouts
  - Skype
  - Join.me
  - Zoom.us
- Task Management
  - Trello
  - Jira
  - Asana
  - GitHub

Remote for Employers

Benefits from Remote workforce
- Much larger talent pool than the exhausted pool (or non-existent one that local). Higher quality employees/contractors/consultants for the same overhead.
- Remote creates much more loyal employees. You're giving them their life back and this is reciprocated.
- Your company becomes anti-fragile as you're able to adapt with the industry faster. You can hire in areas others cannot.
- On average, remote employees work harder and are more productive than their office counterparts.
- Less overhead! No need to pay for additional office space.

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

035: Vector drawables for Android Apr 11, 2016

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In this mini Fragment we touch base on all the things you need to know about Vector drawables for Android development. How one can use it today, the recommended usage for vector drawable and formats, the limitations and everything else you need to know as an Android developer.

Show Notes

Vector Drawable [developer.android.com]
Trello's Victor [github.com]
- What's our Vector Victor [youtube.com]
Android Studio 1.4 release (with Vector Asset Studio announcement) [android-developers.blogspot.com]

Support library announcements

Android Support Library v23.2 [android-developers.blogspot.com]
- Vector Drawable backported
- Ian Lake also gives us the instructions in this post
9% of AAR saved on AppCompat [chris.banes.me]
Android Support v23.3.1 announced [plus.google.com]
Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com]

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Contact

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

034: Effective Java - Item 9 Apr 04, 2016

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033: Talking Gradle with GDE Annyce Davis Mar 28, 2016

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In this episode we talk Gradle with the amazing and awesome Annyce Davis. We deal with the basics of Android's build system and dabble with some tips on improving your build times.

Also we released our first ever Fragmented T-shirt in collaboration with another amazing GDE Taylor Ling of AndroidTee fame.

Show Notes

Annyce's talk where she mentions Cyclomatic complexity [youtube.com]
OffGrid Electric
Corey Latislaw on TDD and Testing [fragmentedpodcast.com]
Annyce Davis' Caster.io videos
DAG: Directed Acyclic Graph [wikipedia.org]
DAG discussion on Fragmented - Seek to 18:35
What commands does Andorid Studio's gradle aware make perform? [stackoverflow.com]
- MakeBeforeRunTaskProvider source [android.googlesource.com]
Creating a Gradle Plugin
Use apply from in gradle to include external files
Learn Groovy
Gradle dry run flag [docs.gradle.org]
Madis Pink - Optimizing gradle build time : Droidcon Paris [youtube.com]

Annyce's talks & videos:

Be a good citizen: Develop Maintainable apps [youtube.com]
Caster.io videos

Fragmented T-shirt

Contact

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

032: Making sense of Android Support Library version numbers Mar 14, 2016

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The Android Support library framework is the biggest boon to Android developers. But how does one makes sense of the different versions and revisions available? In this fragment we try to address that question.

Show Notes

Introducing AppCompat V21 [android-developers.blogspot.com]
[android-developers.blogspot.com]
Prev episode with Mike Wolfson [fragmentedpodcast.com]
Android Support Library - "Revision" changelog [developer.android.com]
Revision vs Version [stackoverflow.com]
Introducing Design Support Library
Command to see dependency graph: ./gradlew -q app:dependencies
Seinfeld Auditions

Contact

Fragmented Spec channel (sign up at the bottom)
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
Contact email form

031: Effective Java - Item 8 Mar 07, 2016

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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua's eighth Item. This one is a doozy, probably one of the longest items in the group of the effective Java series, but most definitely quite important.

This episode is brought to you by Rollbar. Go to rollbar.com/fragmented to get their Bootstrap plan for free for 90 days.

Stay tuned for more items from our "Effective Java for Android developers" Fragment series.

Show Notes

Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch

Obey the general contract when overriding equals

When to not override equals:

Each instance of the class is inherently unique.
You don't care whether the class provides a "logical equality" test.
A superclass has already overridden equals, and the superclass behavior is appropriate for this class.

The equals method implement an equivalence relation which states it must be:

Reflexive
Symmetric
Transitive
Consistent
For any non-null reference x, x.equals(null) must return false.

A recipe for a high-quality equals method is as such:

Use the == operator to check for references to this object.
Use the instanceof operator to check if the argument has the correct type
Cast to the correct type.
Check all field types and corresponding field types.
Finally, when done, ask yourself - is this method symmetric, transitive and consistent?

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