128: gRPC on Android with Sam Bobra

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In today’s episode, we are joined by Sam Bobra – engineering manager @VSCO, android fangirl and gRPC magician (some would even say evangelist !) to talk about gRPC on Android. Super informative episode!

Show Notes #

• VSCO
• Sam’s DroidconSF 2017 – Thinking Beyond the REST API: gRPC for Android
• Microservices
• Go (programming language)

Implementation #

• Protocol Buffers
• protobuf-gradle-plugin
• Reactive gRPC
• Differences between gRPC & graphQL

Misc #

• codegen grpc-Java
• codegen grpc-Lite
• codegen Wire
• Curling: grpcurl
• envoy

Sponsors #

• Bitrise.io
• Virtual Device Testing: full integration with Firebase Test Lab, run emulators quickly and reliably

Contact #

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