Category: Decompress

144: Developer Productivity Tools

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about productivity tools for developers. As developers, what are some additional tools and utilities that really up your game. If you wanted to see how they tweak their development environments and workstations in general, this is a good episode to listen. Also introducing a Fragmented Discord Chat server!

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143: Real world testing thoughts

In this mini fragment, Donn and Kaushik share some thoughts on real world testing with Android development – a favorite topic of theirs.

Kaushik recently ran into a case where an espresso test fails because the UI stops performing. It’s an interesting discussion on figuring out what matters when you write your tests. They dive into strategies and techniques around testing. What makes a good test, what should you be testing?

They then talk about why Hermetic testing is pretty hard on mobile and ideas around a simple solution that could be provided out of the box. They then round it up talking about TDD and it’s role in today’s world.

Hope you enjoy this one!

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138: Decompress – kotlin scripting

In this mini fragment, Donn asks KG about a recent hackathon side project that he worked on with Kotlin scripting.

We go into kotlin scripting (using kscript), pros cons, setting it up and more. We’ve added links some interesting resources, so you want to make sure you check out the shownotes for this one, so you too can explore kotlin scripting and see if it’s a fit for you.

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Existing solutions for poll/vote tabulation

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    // slick kotlin usage

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) = super.onCreate(savedInstanceState).also {
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_something)
        // ...
    }

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123: Android Micro Frustrations

With good –most of the time– also comes the bad. In this episode, Kaushik and Donn chat about the small annoying things about being an Android developer, or more aptly – “Micro Frustrations”.

We usually cover the new, latest, greatest and awesome developments. But it helps to step back and also point out the things that are broken and the 1000 cuts so to speak.

Sit back and enjoy this hearty rant!

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layout complaints

Navigation & System bar frustrations:

If you’re looking for a solution to just hide system bar (and not the navigation bar), here’s what Kaushik landed up using (you’re welcome):

fun Window.makeStatusBarTransparent(activity: Activity) {
    sdkUpto(20) {
        setWindowFlag(activity, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, true) 
    }
    decorView.systemUiVisibility = View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_STABLE or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
    sdk(21) {
        setWindowFlag(activity, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS, false)
        setTranslucentStatusBarLollipop()
    }
}

private fun setWindowFlag(activity: Activity, bits: Int, on: Boolean) {
    val win = activity.window
    val winParams = win.attributes
    if (on) {
        winParams.flags = winParams.flags or bits
    } else {
        winParams.flags = winParams.flags and bits.inv()
    }
    win.attributes = winParams
}

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
private fun Window.setTranslucentStatusBarLollipop() {
    statusBarColor = Color.TRANSPARENT
}

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091 : Decompress – Reddit AMA highlights, package by feature not layer and testing!

In this decompress episode, DF and KG kick it off with a brief discussion of the highlights from the recent reddit AMA that the Android Engineering folk conducted. What were the interesting things they learnt or were surprised by etc.? They then go on to briefly discuss two topics they’ve always chatted about (off-air) packaging by feature (not layer) and most recent thoughts on testing. Listen on to find out more:

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360 | AnDev

AMA Reddit

Package by feature not layer

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