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.
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!
In this mini-Fragment, Donn talks about Item #11 of the Effective Java series – Override clone Judiciously. You’ll learn about the extralinguistic behavior of clone and the Cloneable interface. Clone and Cloneable are very special, and this episode helps explain the nuances.
In this episode we talk with, Lisa Wray, first of her job title, mother of the Genius 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.
We wind this two part series down with GDE Philippe by chatting about postfix completion, live templates, structural search/replace, integrating with external tools, cool configurations and much more. Prepare to be mind blown.
In this 2 part series, we talk to the illustrious Philippe of Android Studio tinkering fame. He starts off by discussing the intermediate basics that everyone should know about using Android Studio: window configuration, keyboard shortcuts, navigating the code smoothly, debugging etc. Gradually he moves into ninja mode and starts blowing DF & KG’s minds with cool tips and configurations.
We refused to let him go early and decided to record a second part as well. Stay tuned for the second part which should come out very shortly.
Donn and Kaushik discuss how they use git for their development workflow. They also touch on semantic versioning and how they rollout new versions of their app in a controlled fashion.
We have Jake Wharton and RxJava in one episode ?. In this power-packed episode we talk to Jake about the advances in RxJava 1.x since the last time he was on the show and also looking ahead at the advancements coming down with RxJava 2. If you’re interested in RxJava, this episode will definitely be a treat!
In this mini fragment Kaushik talks about some cool Junit 4 tricks using Parameterize, Enclosing test runners.
We’ve always wanted to know more about annotation processing, so in this episode we pick GDE Mike Evans’ brains on the topic and ask him a whole bunch of questions. If you’ve thought about diving into Annotation processing but never quite grappled with what it’s all about, this is a good episode to listen to.
