The number of Android Libraries available is enormous and that number continues to grow day-by-day! But should you try to incorporate them all into your application? Do you really need to use EventBus, RxJava, and Custom Observables? How many different image libraries have you included? Hopefully you get the point, …
God views, highly coupled classes, untested activities… the Fragment lifecycle!!;I’ve been working in Android since 2008 and lately, as the platform matures, the apps codebase is getting bigger. In these big codebases there is legacy code all over the place. Working on that environment is hell, without applying the right …
This presentation proposes strategies to identify good candidates for re-usability, how to create requirements to make the library useful, and steps to limit scope and ensure the library is useful without getting in the way. The video also discusses the importance of documenting reusable components and treating the library like …
For 10 years, Groovy has dramatically improved the productivity of Java developers on the desktop. With unique like closures, builders, AST transformations, traits, optional static compilation and many more, Groovy turned out to be a very competitive language on the JVM. Compared to other JVM languages, Groovy has the major …
What is accessibility in the Android world and why is it important? This presentation by Twitter’s Sommer Panage discusses basic accessibility for Android, testing, and custom views.
In the Android UX team, it is critical to get user feedback frequently and consistently so that we are able to iterate and develop the best-in-class designs for our users. We will discuss how the team applied “”Pulse Studies”” (iterative research sessions) in order to put new ideas, designs, and …
