Category: Episodes

We talk with Android UI magician Israel. In this episode, Israel does what magicians are never supposed to do, reveal those exciting magic tricks. He talks about tricks you can use in your Android apps to create a super slick UI, citing examples from Google Photos, Twitter and other apps.

Dazzle your Android users with these UI tricks.

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Show Notes

• Israel’s last appearance on Fragmented (Ep 26) [fragmentedpodcast.com]

Smoke and Mirros

• Israel’s sample app [github.com]
• Slides (with animation demos) [photos.google.com]
• Google Photos Recycler View pinch to expand/shrink [photos.google.com]
• ClipChildren demo [photos.google.com]
• Utils method – traverse hierarchy and clip [photos.google.com]
• Tap image to show full screen [photos.google.com]

Misc

• Nick Butcher’s Plaid app [github.com]
• Android-Job library by Evernote [github.com]

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @rallat [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

We talk with the all-star multi-talented GDE Chiu-Ki Chan about testing. Specifically, we dive into leveraging Mockito for your testing needs. What is Mocking, what is Stubbing, what are the different test doubles, how does mockito help with this? Listen on to find about that and some more interesting stuff on testing!

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Show Notes

• Introducing Pixel [blog.google]
• Static Gateway Pattern [codebetter.com]

About Chiu-Ki:

• Android Dialogs | youtube [youtube.com]
• 360|AnDev co-organizer | conference [360andev.com]
• Technically Speaking| newsletter [tinyletter.com]

fake SharedPreferences implementations from AOSP

• FakeSharedPreferences | fake in-memory SharedPreferences implementation [github.com]
• BridgeSharedPreferences | empty SharedPreferences that does nothing implementation [github.com]
• Testing SharedPreferences [gumroad.com]

Different kinds of Test doubles

• Know your test doubles [testing.googleblog.com]
• [Test Doubles: Mocks, Stubs, and More](https://www.objc.io/issues/15-testing/mocking-stubbing/ http://www.javaworld.com/article/2074508/core-java/mocks-and-stubs—understanding-test-doubles-with-mockito.html) [objc.io]
• Mocks aren’t Stubs [martinfowler.com]

Mockito

• Mockito library [github.com]
• Stubbing consecutive calls [mockito.org]
• Argument Captor [mockito.org]
• PowerMock [github.com]

Resources

• friendspell | Chiu-Ki’s example project with a variety of testing strategies [github.com]
• Mock Application in Espresso for Dependency Injection [sqisland.com]
• Chiu-Ki’s caster.io courses on Testing | MockWebServer

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @chiuki and +ChiuKiChan
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

In this episode we talk with, Lisa Wray, first of her job title, mother of the Genius Android app and sorceress of Data Binding.

What is Data Binding? How does it work? What can you do with it? … and what you can really do with it ! Listen on and find out more. Lisa walks us through the basics and then talks to us about how we can really push the envelope with Data Binding and do some really cool things.

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Show Notes

About Lisa Wray

• xwray.com
• Genius [genius.com]
• Fragmented Ep 042 – Google IO 2016 special [fragmentedpodcast.com]

Data Binding Resources

• Data Binding Library [developer.android.com]
• Data Binding – Writing Apps Faster (Android Dev Summit 2015) [youtube.com]
• Data Binding Techniques – Jacob Tabak’s Droidcon NYC 2015 talk [youtube.com]
• talk:title="@{dataBinding}" – Lisa’s lightning talk at Square Android Spring Cleaning [youtube.com]
• Descent into Data Binding – Bill Phillips at Big Nerd Ranch [bignerdranch.com]
• Advanced Data Binding – Google I/O 2016 [youtube.com]
• ADB Ep 35 – Data Bound [androidbackstage.com]

Sponsor

• Hired – special offer: double the signing bonus!

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @lisawrayz and +LisaWrayZeitouni
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe