064: Garbage Collection (Android) vs Reference Counting (iOS)

In this mini-Fragment episode, Kaushik talks about the process of Garbage collection and how it compares to Reference counting (which is the equivalent process in iOS).

How does each work? What are the differences? Which is better 😁 ? Listen on for all the juicy details…

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Kaushik Gopal: I was talking to one of my colleagues who works on our iOS applications the other day. We started off the conversation talking about advantages and disadvantages of the different local database options—like Realm and SQLite.

Then he mentioned something that blew my mind. A parent-child relationship is a typical use case in any marginally complex system, and we were talking about how to model them in a local database. Then he said, “Yeah, you’ve got to be extra careful with those relationships. You don’t want retain cycles.” This sounded a lot like a memory leak to me, so I probed a bit further, and that led me to the idea behind this mini-Fragment episode: the world of garbage collection and reference counting.

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063: Effective Java for Android Developers – Item #13: Minimize the accessibility of classes and members

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #13 of the Effective Java series – Minimize the accessibility of classes and members. You’ll learn why it’s important to limit the access on your public API, how it can help you with development and performance. You’ll also learn how changing a public API can affect the consumers of your API, for good and bad.

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Donn Felker: Today, I’m going to talk about Item #13 from Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch. For those of you who are just joining us, Kaushik and I are covering all of the items inside this book in relation to how they apply to Android developers. We’ve already gone through the first 12, so I’ll be talking about #13: Minimize the accessibility of classes and members.

Joshua puts this very well right out of the gate, so I’m going to read this verbatim:

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062: Effective Java for Android Developers – Item #12: Consider Implementing Comparable

In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #12 of the Effective Java series – Consider Implementing Comparable. You’ll learn about how you can use the Comparable interface to give your code the extra sorting boost it needs. Work with Arrays.sort(), Collections utilities and even sorted data structures. Donn breaks down what it takes to implement the compareTo method of the Comparable interface.

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