Android Dev Podcast

While your app is compiling, you probably have enough time to listen to how Gradle is making our developer’s lives better with new tricks, tools and build speed improvements for sure. We’ve talked about gradle scripts with Kotlin, does Gradle have fundamental design issues, how much RAM you need and the most questionable topic: how much modules Android app should have.

End of October in Bay Area was hot. Android Dev Summit 2019 brought many announcements and updates. Denis and Ash invited Florina Muntenescu (@FMuntenescu) to discuss highlights from two days of the major event for Android Developers this year.

Most of us are debugging our apps in an emulator or latest fancy Pixel devices. However, reality shows that most markets are saturated with older and more cost effective Android devices, typically from Chinese manufacturers. What is the way to survive for our apps in such an unpredictable environment? Today Ash is having Artur and Gaurav to talk about their experience dealing with second billion markets.

Asian phonomen of super apps is not well known in other parts of the world. We’ve heard about WeChat but not many of us thought that ride-hailing startup can also grew to super app. Today we are talking with Stepan (Android) and German (iOS) from Grab about company and their experience as developers of tools and build systems. You will learn why react native is not ready for prod, is Flutter a complete answer to all problems, are developers loving to support thousands of different Android devices, how to do linting at scale of dozens of PR per day, and why Android X update is not just a couple of line changes in gradle config.

Our third english speaking episode. Our guests today from Google and Yandex as they both working on their own solutions for bringing Android ecosystem inside cars. We’ve discussed how it was in the beginning of Android era, what solutions and Head Units exist now, how it is regulated and what type of influence car makers have on it, why some cars still not updated from Android 4.4 and is it possible to access car settings from Android Head Unit.

Our third english speaking episode. Our guests today from Google and Yandex as they both working on their own solutions for bringing Android ecosystem inside cars. We’ve discussed how it was in the beginning of Android era, what solutions and Head Units exist now, how it is regulated and what type of influence car makers have on it, why some cars still not updated from Android 4.4 and is it possible to access car settings from Android Head Unit.

Unidirectional flow architecture approaches become more and more popular in modern Android development. Spotify one of pioneers among MVx framework creators who decided to implement MVI and use it inside their applications. Denis and Artem discussed with one of initial developers Marcus about Mobius framework.

Difficulty: Advanced

Speakers: Denis Nekliudov, Artem Zinnatullin, Marcus Forsell Stahre

This is our pilot episode of English speaking version of AndroidDevPodcast. Denis and Ash GDEs from SF and Berlin starting from one of the most important topics in Android Development.

So many candidates nowadays are using live data on interview but less than half of them know how it works and what exact problems are with activity destroy during rotation and keeping activity in the backstack. We have GDE from Berlin Ash Davies to solve that puzzle and show clear picture how to deal with the state.

We are talking about activity and fragment lifecycle, retained fragments, ActivityThread class and FragmentManager. Also how LiveData, Lifecycle from Android Architecture Components works, how to deal with lifecycle in RxJava and Coroutines. And what about state restoring in Flutter and React Native.