Androidiots podcast

Androidiots podcast

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Androidiots podcast episodes

  • AndroIdiots Podcast 19 : Unwrapping Aarogya Setu App with Niharika Arora

    World is struggling, its struggling alot currently with the global pandemic disrupting the lives and health of people, and with the onset of disease innovative tech solutions were needed with prevention being the only cure till date for covid-19 social distancing was the best defence system we have for people who are not yet exposed to Covid but for people who unfortunately were exposed to covid , contact tracing was the need of the hour along with lockdowns.

    India as country went into lockdown for the first time on 25th March 2020,
    On 2 April 2020, the Gov of india released the Aarogya Setu app to enable contact tracing in India. The app was jointly developed the government and various volunteers from the private sector and universities

    And today we have one of the volunteers who has contributed heavily to the Arogya setu App, Niharika Arora.

    Niharika is a senior software engineer at 1mg, a regular speaker at various mobile app development conferences, and she has agreed to lend some time to us to shed light over the tech that went into building the Arogya setu app.

    41 min
  • Andro Idiots Episode 18: Custom Lints with Hitanshu Dhawan
    Code quality has always been a central theme in life of a software developer, 
    Linting is one of the easiest way to maintain some sanity over the code base. Out of the box linters that Android Studio provide gives us the power to analyse the source code to flag programming errors , bugs, stylistic errors.
    In this episode we host Hitanshu Dhawan from UrbanCompany who deep dives into the same
    13 min
  • AndroIdiots Podcast 17: Android Studio Plugins With Tushar Aeron
    Android Studio came out in 2013, and quickly became the goto IDE for Android Development,
    We also said hello to new set of features like file templates, 3rd party integrations and best of all plugins.
    We all have used them, often abused then, but we never understood them
    In this new episode of Androidiots podcast we have Tushar Aeron from UrbanCompany who has spent some time working with Android Studio Plugins to walk us through the basic anatomy of it.
    Have a listen.
    We also have a new co host in Vivek Singh
    Say Hi to him at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsingh1011/
    We would also like to thank Tushar Gupta our departing cohost for extensive support and efforts for the past 1.5 Years.
    Show Notes : https://medium.com/androidiots/androidiots-podcast-17-android-studio-plugins-with-tushar-aeron-d8f95db21388
    17 min
  • AndroIdiots Podcast 16: Android Process LifeCycle
    Android Platform has come way since its launch from Cupcake to Pie we had lots of deserts, product features like notification centre, material design, dark theme, capabilities like Google Assistant,Video Casting, Wireless charging etc.
    But like any good software system the core always remains intact, so today we try to answer how the System designers went about designing android system, what are the design considerations that they have to keep in mind? How the system treats/interacts with the apps that we developers make? We deep dive into entire android process lifecycle with Deepak Garg and try to understand the same.
    https://medium.com/androidiots/androidiots-podcast-16-android-process-lifecycle-5cdba10fa431
    25 min
  • Using Kotlin as a BackEnd language with Matt
    We are all software developers and we love to code, don't we? And ofcourse, Kotlin is our favourite language.
    Don't you wish you could write every system in Kotlin. Well its no news, that the Kotlin makers are actually making it true. We have discussed it before in our previous episode about Kotlin/Multiplatform and in this episode we discuss how to get started with Kotlin as a BackEnd language with Matt Thornfield. 
    Matt is the author of the book Building Spring Boot Applications with the Kotlin Programming Language distributed by Manning Publications and also has a course on with same name on LinkedIn Learning.
    Manning Publications have been kind enough to share some discount codes for our listeners.
    You can use the code: podandroid19 to get a flat 40% discount on any live free video course.
    And here are few codes to get free Spring Boot Application With Kotlin course:
    andkot-38DA
    andkot-480B
    andkot-B1FC
    Link to the course :
    https://www.manning.com/livevideo/building-spring-boot-applications-with-the-kotlin-programming-language
    25 min
  • Androidiots Podcast 14 : Better RecyclerView with Zomato.
    Zomato is an Indian restaurant search and discovery service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It currently operates in 24 countries with more then 50 million downloads of its Android app.
    With such scale requires the app to be dynamic enough to support various types of restaurants, various types of cuisines in various location, hence entire app needs to be developed at scale and able to be served in all the possible forms.
    And we all know in android we can achieve that with templatized nested recyclerviews and in this episode we have Sajal Gupta, Prateek and Yashika from Zomato's Android team, walking us through their journey with Recyclerview & its adapter and things that they do to make sure its highly performant.
    21 min
  • Androidiots Podcast 12 : Custom Views
    Almost every android developer daily works on making views. It's a most common job but making good efficient views is not as simple as it appears.
    Today we have Himanshu Saluja from Urbanclap dissecting the View lifecycle to help us all understand the samel
    Have a read here : https://medium.com/androidiots/make-fast-android-views-8d5cb2e0fe18
    14 min
  • AndroIdiots Podcast 11 : Functional & Reactive Programming
    Functional & Reactive Programming isn't for the faint heart. There, I said it. This is the first question that pops into mind as soon as we see the words "Reactive Programming". But then what is the point of learning it. This is what we are going to explore in our new episode with Ashish Krishnan & Gurpreet Singh from Kite & Amanjeet Singh from 1mg.
    41 min
  • AndroIdiots Podcast 10 : Android@Linkedin
    Today we have Aayush Dawra who works as an Android and iOS dev @ Linkedin in SF, he shares few tidbits of his journey and life of an android developer at LinkedIn he also deep dives into the various process that they follow to make sure that their 500 million app users are happy.
    26 min

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An android developer podcast to stay updated with whats new in android, best practices and how to become a better android developer