Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

By Kaushik Gopal, Iury SouzaScience Technology Education

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast episodes

May 31, 2016042: Google IO 2016 (Part 1)
In Part 1 of our Google IO special we talk to a whole bunch of amazing AndroidDev. We go around asking them a few simple questions. Questions, that you probably thought to ask when you saw them in person, but just forgot to.
Oh and you really should listen all the way to the end :)
Show Notes
Annyce Davis (Offgrid Electric)
@brwngrldev
Fragmented episode 33 : talking Gradle with GDE Annyce Davis
Fitbit Android app
Mark Allison (Freelancer currently contracting for AMEX)
@MarkIAllison
Styling Android
Wiebe Elsinga
@welsinga
Jake Wharton (Square)
@JakeWharton
Kotlin Night in SF
Ryan Harter
@rharter
Pocket Casts
Lisa Wray (Genius)
@lisawrayz
Rebecca
@riggaroo
22Seven
Erik Hellman
@ErikHellman
Fabulous - Motivate Me
Contact us:
Contact form
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
Stay tuned for Part 2 where we talk to another list of top notch Android developers and get their answers for these questions.
57 min
May 23, 2016041: YAGNI
In this mini Fragment, Donn talks about one of his favorite topics, YAGNI. YAGNI is an acronym that stands for "You Arent Going To Need It". Donn explains what it is, why its useful and shares a personal story of how he was introduced to the YAGNI concept back in 2008.
Show Notes
YAGNI
YAGNI on Wikipedia
MarketWatch
Sponsor
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Contact
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
12 min
May 16, 2016040: Internal Library Dependency Management with GDE Kelly Shuster
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]
Sponsors
Caster.io [Coupon code: Fragmented]
Contact
@kellyshuster [twitter.com]
kiodev.com
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
40 min
May 09, 2016039: Talking TextView with Elliott Chenger
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
Sponsor
The Nerdery [nrdryjobs.com/fragmented]
Contact
@Echenger [twitter.com]
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
42 min
May 02, 2016038: What Android Devs Need to know about N
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]
Sponsor
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Contact
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
35 min
April 25, 2016037: Decompress 1 : Xcode, Fonts sizes, Testing and yes Agera!
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
Sponsor
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40 min
April 18, 2016036: Working Remotely
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.
Sponsor
Rollbar - special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days
Contact
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
24 min
April 11, 2016035: Vector drawables for Android
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]
Animated Vector Drawable
AnimatedVectorDrawable [developer.android.com]
Chiuki on Animated Vector Drawables [sqisland.com]
Road Runner library [github.com]
see youtube demo [youtube.com]
Problems:
Dan Lew's SVG test project [github.com]
bug report on no gradient support for vectors [code.google.com]
Vector format restrictions : Vector Asset Studio [developer.android.com]
Better conversation tool svg2android - Juraj Novák [inloop.github.io]
Other references:
Mark Allison - Vector Drawable Part 1 [stylingandroid.com]
Mark Allison - Vectors for all (Almost) [stylingandroid.com]
Using Android Vector Drawable [code.tutsplus]
Sponsor
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Contact
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
15 min
April 04, 2016 034: Effective Java - Item 9
18 min
March 28, 2016033: Talking Gradle with GDE Annyce Davis
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
Blog post
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Contact
Annyce @brwngrldev [twitter.com]
@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]
41 min