The Android community has come to use Rx pretty heavily but surprisingly there hasn’t been any one convention that’s won, when it comes to how we name our functions that return Observables. getUser(), user(), userUpdates() ? In this mini-episode dutifully does the yak-shaving for you and discusses what some options are and what the community has been gravitating towards.
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Growing as a developer is important for you, your career and your future. One of the best ways to grow your career is to start writing.
Donn recommends starting a blog or contributing to a blog. The process of writing will expose your weak points in your comprehension of a topic. Refining your communication skills through writing and putting thoughts out into the universe via a blog will broaden your skills as a developer.
Ultimately, writing is about communication and communication is the cornerstone of success in much of anything. In this episode, Donn walks you through why you should start writing to help you grow as a developer.
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Listen to all star Indie developer and friend of the show Chris Lacy. Chris Lacy created the beloved Action Launcher – arguably one of the best Launcher apps on Android. In this epiisode, he talks to us about what it’s like being an indie developer, starting on Action Launcher and of course his newest creation – ActionDash.
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After you’ve been working on an app for sometime, the most common quandry one runs into is the need to rewrite the app. We’ve all been there, there’s technical debt, we’ve improved our understanding, the tools have become better, we’ve become better. So should you go back and just rewrite the whole app? Jeroen walks us through his thinking.
In this episode, we continue our discussion from episode 148 on evolving android architectures. We collected some of the questions from the community and try to answer them.
Another Learning Kotlin episode. We talk about Returns, Jumps & Labels!
In this quick fragment, Kaushik talks about the new Kotlin 1.3 experimental feature “inline classes” and how it helps with Type driven design.
In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the state of android architectures and how they’ve stared to evolve. Kaushik recently worked on a project of coming up with an evolved version of an MVVM architecture, very similar to what the Android community now calls MVI.
Special request: if you have follow up questions or clarifications or things you’d like to see specifically with respect to this dicussion, hit us up on the Discord #fragmented-podcast channel with your thoughts and we’ll make sure to address them in future parts!
In this short fragment episode, Donn explains how you can clean up your RxJava 2 streams and ensure no memory leaks are occurring by using the AutoDispose library from Uber.
In this episode of Fragmented, Donn digs into three things that every Android developer needs to know.
