Author: Donn Felker

174: Testing RxJava, Debugging and More


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Kaushik is back in this weeks podcast. 🎉

Donn and Kaushik talk about testing RxJava streams with a Kotlin extension method and how and when to test various scenarios. Donn talks about his thoughts on the Testing Pyramid and why he thinks it’s incorrect and how you can help shift your thinking in regards to it. They then talk about IDE themes and how the theme can help you with your day to day development and more.

They wrap up with some talk about developing on Macs vs Windows and Linux.

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173: What Pattern Should I Use – MVP, MVVM, MVI …?

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This week Donn talks about what pattern you should use when developing your application. Is it MVP? MVVM? Mabye MVI? Perhaps it’s something else. Find out in this episode.

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172: Coil Image Loading Library with Colin White

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In this episode Donn and Kaushik sit down with Instacart Engineer Colin White to discuss a new image library he has created called Coil.

Coil is a Kotlin-first image library that focuses on ease of use, simplicity and extensibility. In this episode we ask him the question you’re probably wondering … “Why create an image library, isn’t this a solved problem already?” and then move onto the details of how the library works, and what it offers developers.

From Donn’s perspective – It’s an interesting library and gives you what you need with minimal footprint but offers you the extensibility that you’d want in the future. Its a good balance of “just enough” and “I might need this”.

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171: Jetpack Compose with Leland Richardson

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This week Donn and Kaushik talk to Leland Richardson from the Android team at Google about Jetpack Compose.

Jetpack Compose is declarative component-based UI runtime for Android. With compose you can build your UI with functions in Kotlin to easily “compose” what your UI would look like.

We dive deep in this episode. We talk about the background and influence React had on the project, we dive deep into some of the decisions made regarding the library and much much more…

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170: Developer Growth – Public Speaking

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In this episode, Donn talks about public speaking and how it can help you grow your career.

He dives in by telling a story of his first speaking engagement and how he was riddled with fear, insecurity, doubt and anxiety. He then talks about why speaking can help you grow your career and life leaps and bounds. He wraps up with possible things you can speak about when starting out as well as where you can get your break into the speaking circuit.

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