004: The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 2)

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In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik continue their conversation with Dan Lew on RxJava. In the final part of this 2 part series, they talk about many useful RxJava operators and other intricacies of using RxJava in Android.

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Show Notes

RxJava Operators:

RxJava Components:

Retrolambda

Hot  vs Cold observables – From the RxJs wiki [github.com]

  • uses js instead of java, but concepts are the same and this is the best explanation I’ve found so far.

RxJava wiki on Backpressure [github.com]:

  • Ring buffer size: `System.setProperty(“rx.ring-buffer.size”, “128”);`
  • Issue with changing buffer ring size [github.com]
  • It’s 16 on Android, down from 1024 originally. :P So it’s actually 64x smaller.

Awesome picks:

Dan Lew:

  • Simple Made Easy (talk by Rich Hickey creator of Clojure) [infohq]
  • Victor by Trello (SVG assets) [github.com]

Donn:

Kaushik:

  • Therapeutic Refactoring (talk by Katrina Owen) [youtube.com]

Contact

Dan Lew

Donn Felker

Kaushik Gopal

003: The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 1)

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In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik interview Dan Lew – druid of RxJava & RxAndroid! In part 1 of this 2 part series, we find out more about the one they call Dan Lew. We ask Dan how he started off as a developer, how he stays on top of development, where he draws inspiration from for amazing Android development and much more. We then begin disarming the glorious beast that is RxJava touching upon it’s benefits and begin discussion of some common operators.

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Dan’s open source contributions:

Staying on top of Android Development:

Dan’s  favorite apps:

Android Games that Dan plays

Working Remotely:

Getting started with  RxJava:

Rx

002: Android Studio

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik talk about the official IDE for Android development – “Android Studio”. Why should you care about your IDE? Is Android Studio really open source? What are some of the advantages of using Android Studio? How can you customize and tweak Android Studio so you take your android development game to the next level? Listen to this episode and find out. The awesome picks for this episode are particularly awesome too.

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Show Notes/Links

Android Studio (official IDE):

“Open source-ness” of Android Studio:

Environment customizations:

Annotation Magic:

Learning Android Studio resources:

The most important things on the internet:

Awesome picks:

@donnfelker and @kaushikgopal

001: Welcome & Testing in Android

Welcome to the very first episode of Fragmented. Donn and Kaushik talk about why they started the podcast, the structure of the podcast and a little about who they are. The main topic for this episode is Testing! What are the benefits of testing, in general? Why does testing specifically help Android developers? What is the state of testing in Android and how does one test in Android?

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Show Notes/Links

Testing Links

Misc

Sample Android Testing Projects:

Awesome picks:

Contact

Donn Felker

Kaushik Gopal

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