In this episode we talk to Ty Smith about all things Developer Platform. Currently a tech lead at Uber, Ty has quite the illustrious career having worked on some of the biggest names you’ve heard like Uber, Twitter(Fabric), Evernote, Zagat etc.
Unlike regular client app development, Developer Platform spans a variety of interesting topics like building consumable SDKs, building libraries with good APIs, creating Android integrations and App to app communication via components like Content Providers, AIDL Integrations, Intent APIS and deep links.
We ask Ty how he got started in this field, how one should go about thinking about it and the interesting challenges that one would run across in this intriguing field.
Show Notes
Ty’s all star Dallas crew
- Chris Banes [@chrisbanes] previously on FriendCaster
- Chris Arvin [@ChrisArvinSF] previously on BaconReader
- Juan Gomez [@_juandg] on Netflix
- Matt Wear [parallelcross.com] prevoiusly on Evernote
Developer Platform
- Tests? Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That! by Ty Smith [youtube.com]
- Content providers [developer.android.com]
- AIDL (Andorid Interface Definition Language) [developer.android.com]
- TransactionTooLargeException [developer.android.com]
Contact
- @tsmith [twitter.com]
- @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
- @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
- @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe
Transcript
Donn Felker: Okay, here we are again. How are you doing, Kaushik?
Kaushik Gopal: I’m doing well. How are you?
DF: I’m doing really well. I’m very excited about today’s topic. It’s something I’ve dabbled in for a couple of clients, but not at the level of the gentleman who we have on today’s show.
KG: Yeah, this gentleman is known for having a sound understanding of the subject.
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