Kaushik and I are excited to announce that we’ve created a public Discord server that you can join, for free to chat with other folks in the community.
We wanted to create a place where listeners could get together, ask questions, communicate and help each other. The goal of our podcast has always been to share knowledge and we feel that this is only a natural extension of our original vision.
In this mini fragment, Donn and Kaushik share some thoughts on real world testing with Android development – a favorite topic of theirs.
Kaushik recently ran into a case where an espresso test fails because the UI stops performing. It’s an interesting discussion on figuring out what matters when you write your tests. They dive into strategies and techniques around testing. What makes a good test, what should you be testing?
They then talk about why Hermetic testing is pretty hard on mobile and ideas around a simple solution that could be provided out of the box. They then round it up talking about TDD and it’s role in today’s world.
Hope you enjoy this one!
In this episode, we talk to our friend Matt Logan. Matt took some time off and worked on an indie app called Sessions. He built this for both Android and iOS. In this episode we talk to him about his experience building apps on both platforms, techniques, advice and other good stuff.
In this mini fragment, Donn and KG talk about Impostor syndrome. Most of us developers are plagued by this. Does this feeling ever go away? How do we deal with this? Listen to this short episode to find out more.
We all know of ProGuard, we want to use it and like it. But let’s face it proGuard ain’t pretty. In this episode we have Jeb walk us through the magic of ProGuard.
We talk to Jeb Ware of American Express. Jeb works as an Android developer and has given some great talks on ProGuard. He walks us through what ProGuard is, how it works, advancements with R8 and more.
By the end of this episode, you should have a new found appreciation for proGuard and bravely approach adding proGuard to your projects.
In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to Uber’s Manu Sridharan on static code analysis. Manu’s a badass who did his PhD on the subject! He explains how static code analysis works, how Uber leverages these tools in their app development pipeline and how we can use such tools to build high quality Android apps.
In this mini fragment, Donn asks KG about a recent hackathon side project that he worked on with Kotlin scripting.
We go into kotlin scripting (using kscript), pros cons, setting it up and more. We’ve added links some interesting resources, so you want to make sure you check out the shownotes for this one, so you too can explore kotlin scripting and see if it’s a fit for you.
In this episode, DF and KG decompress. They start off talking about ideas around KISS vs DRY in software engineering. They move on then to talk about a dear topic – functional vs unit testing and then dive into some of the woes of having a testing infrastructure spun up. Also announcing our youtube channel!
In this fragment episode, Donn talks about Kotlin extension functions. He discusses what they are, how to build them, why they’re useful, how to organize them, visibility and how to call them Java and much more.
Donn’s on a roll again this week and talks to us about his experience having developed Android for a while. In the early days of Android development, as app developers we felt like we had a decent grasp of everything you needed to know to pump out decent apps.
But with the time, and the latest updates, that has become a tricky thing. This is a good problem to have for the ecosystem but it can make it seem very daunting for developers, both new and old.
Donn gives his 2 cents on this subject.
