094: Design Patternitis – 5 Tips to Help You

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn talks about a common problem almost all software engineers face in their career – Design Patternitis.

So, you’ve read the books on design patterns and now you’re applying them everywhere. Just because some code can be put into a pattern doesn’t mean you should. Or should you? How can you apply them when needed? Donn shares 5 tips with you that you can use to help combat Design Patternitis.

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093 : RxJava intervention with Dan Lew

In this episode of Fragmented, our friend and RxJava paragon of the Android – Dan Lew, returns for a record 3 and 1/2 time.

We’ve been using RxJava over the years now and have even talked to Dan about it in previous episodes.

How has our understanding of Rx use in Android changed over the years? We know some of the super standard usecases for RxJava in AndroidDev. But the important question to be asking is: when are the times we “shouldn’t” be using RxJava? Are we over-complicating our code by shoe-horning it in different places. Concepts like functional programming and reactive state management have picked up steam again, how has this influenced our RxJava use?

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092: Learning Kotlin – dealing with static-ness and (companion) objects costs

In this second episode of our learning Kotlin series, we talk about Kotlin’s support for static members or … lack thereof. Kotlin as a language was designed so that there’s no such thing as a “static member” in a class but there are times when having static members can be useful.

So what do we do in those cases? do we just avoid static members? are there better alternatives? what are the costs with some of these approaches?

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// ----------------------------------------
// THIS IS BAD
class Foo {
    companion object {
        val myVar = "testing"
    }
}

// calling from Kotlin
Foo.myVar

// calling from Java
Foo.Companion.getMyVar();  // yuck

// ----------------------------------------
// THIS IS OK

// notice the Jvm annotation
class Foo {
    companion object {
        @JvmField val myVar = "testing"
    }
}

// calling from Kotlin
Foo.myVar

// calling from Java
Foo.myVar; 

// ----------------------------------------
// THIS IS AWESOME

// notice the const keyword
class Foo {
    companion object {
        const val myVar = "testing"
    }
}

// calling from Kotlin
Foo.myVar

// calling from Java 
Foo.myVar; 
// compiler additionally inlines this

// myVar is not a primitive or String?
// use @JvmField or @JvmStatic for methods

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// inside BottomSheetView.Kt
class BottomSheetView {
    companion object {
        const val BOTTOM_SHEET_ANIMATION_TIMING = 500L
    }

    // ...
}


// accessed as:
animation.setTiming(BottomSheetView.BOTTOM_SHEET_ANIMATION_TIMING)

// ----------------------------------------
// INSTEAD DO THIS

// inside BottomSheetView.Kt
const val BOTTOM_SHEET_ANIMATION_TIMING = 500L

class BottomSheetView {
    // ...
}

// accessed as:
animation.setTiming(BottomSheetViewKt.BOTTOM_SHEET_ANIMATION_TIMING)