2016

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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s ninth Item. After the last somewhat mind boggling item, this is a much welcomed simple, practical yet important one: Always override hashCode when you override equals.

Donn goes into the importance of implementing hashCode and why it’s so important to override it for maintaining harmony with the equals method. Also 42 and the answer to life ? He then goes into some tips on implementing a good hashCode and a standard recipe for the same.

Go forth and override them hashCodes!

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In this episode we talk Gradle with the amazing and awesome Annyce Davis. We deal with the basics of Android’s build system and dabble with some tips on improving your build times.

Also we released our first ever Fragmented T-shirt in collaboration with another amazing GDE – Taylor Ling of AndroidTee fame.

Everybody loves t-shirts! More than one listener in the past has asked us when Fragmented is going to have a t-shirt – one they can wear at conferences and such. We thought about it, but never could hone in on a wicked design. The bar is set SUPER high for good t-shirts these days! The design has to be iconic, yet you should be able to comfortably wear it to work and it shouldn’t turn you into a public billboard.

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The Android Support library framework is the biggest boon to Android developers. But how does one makes sense of the different versions and revisions available? In this fragment we try to address that question.

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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s eighth Item. This one is a doozy, probably one of the longest items in the group of the effective Java series, but most definitely quite important.

This episode is brought to you by Rollbar. Go to rollbar.com/fragmented to get their Bootstrap plan for free for 90 days.

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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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If you’ve been an Android developer in the last 2 years, you must have seen this dreaded exception: dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536

Quick googling would immediately bring up the phrase “65K method count” and the recommended solution “multi-dexing”. But if you want to really understand this mysterious number and the reason behind its existence, listen on!

Heya Folks, We wanted to let you know what we’ve been up to with the Fragmented podcast lately. Don’t worry, all things below are good for you as the listener. You may or may not have noticed that the episode length has been getting gradually shorter. We’re trying to get it under 40 minutes. Why under 40 minutes? Well, simply because we’ve heard nothing but good things about all of our shorter episodes.

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