Category: Episodes

In this episode we talk to Material Design Master and Google Developer Expert Mike Wolfson. What does Material design mean to us developers? How does one use the numerous support libraries to help with this? What widgets should and shouldn’t we be using? Listen to the show and find out.

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Show Notes

• Material Design – Official site
• Material Design – The Specification
• Google Color Palette – list of “approved” colors
• Google Color Palette Library – picking colors from an image
• Android Support Lib 23.2 video [twitter.com]
• Resource for getting better at Material Design:
  • Materialdoc.com – curated blog post for developers
  • Android Historian – Mike’s Material Design demo
  • PSD resources – Up Labs [materialup.com]
  • Official PSD layout templates
  • Official Material Design Icons
  • DroidconNYC 2015: Material design everywhere using the Android Support Libraries – Mike’s talk

Sponsors

• Rollbar – special offer: Bootstrap plan free for 90 days [rollbar.com/fragmented]

Contact

• Mike Wolfson: Twitter Google+ mikewolfson.com
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

Feast yourselves to a grand bonanza of tips and tricks with this episode! Donn and Kaushik talk about the tips and tricks they’ve picked up over the course of 2015.

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Show Notes

• Android Dev Summit demo – Structural replace [youtube.com]
• Software Design patterns [wikipedia.org]
• Reformatting code:
  • Reformatting Source code [jetbrains.com]
  • Reformat dialog [jetbrains.com] (only VCS changed text)
• Library dependency management:
  • JitPack (publishing jvm and android libraries)
  • Internal library dependency managment – Kelly Shushter
• Hadi Hariri on Fragmented Ep 20 talking Intellij shortcuts
• Using UiAutomatorViewer to help write espresso tests – Ep. 23: Caster.io [caster.io]
• git pre-commit hook [gist]
• Intellij – work with embedded Terminal [jetbrains.com] (yes, you can customize btw zsh/bash)
• KG’s Update script – morning ritual [gist]
• Cyril on Grid Spacing on Android [cyrilmottier.com] (showdividers/divider)
• Tor’s issue on maven vs jcenter [code.google.com]

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

Realm pro and overall genius Christian Melchior joins us in this episode to talk about all things Realm.

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Show Notes

• Realm.io for Java/Android
• Martin fowler on schema-less
• github issue on extending Realm Object
• Caster.io video tutorial – Intro to Realm for Android Devs
• Christian’s talk at Droidcon NYC 2015 [youtube.com]

Contact

• @chrmelchior [twitter.com]
• @realm [twitter.com]
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

In this episode Donn and Kaushik chat with the one and only Israel Ferrer Camacho (@rallat). They discuss a talk Israel gave sometime back on “Android development like a pro”, exchanging war stories on patterns like MVP, MVVP clean architecture etc.

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Show Notes

• Rallat’s slides [pdf]
• Rallat’s sample repo using different patterns [github]
• Burrito Design Pattern [twitter.com]
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code [amazon.com]
• The Clean architecture [blog.8thlight.com]
• Uncle Bob’s talk on Vimeo

Awesome Picks:

Rallat:

• Rallat’s tweet on Dagger 2 & Scope Provider
• Music for the week! The Weeknd
• Cmd Shift A – one shortcut to rule them all

Donn:

• Philly ETE (April 11/12) (Donn’s giving a talk)
• Life is Short [paulgraham.com]
• 7 videos on UI Testing and TDD with Espresso : Caster.IO

Kaushik:

• Create a pared-down “lite” version of the app
• Pancakes library – alternative to Fragment Manager for views

Contact

• @rallat [twitter.com]
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]