118: Flutter and cross platform development with GDE Eugenio Marletti – Part 1

In this episode, we dive into one of our most requested topics and highly anticipated ones – Flutter.

To help us understand Flutter in-depth, we talk to Flutter’s GDE Eugenio Marletti. In Part 1 of this 2 part series, Eugenio helps us understand what flutter is, why it was created, how it works, some really cool features with Flutter and why an AndroidDev today should really give Flutter a good look.

We got so carried away in conversation, that we were forced to break this episode into two parts. Stay tuned for Part 2.

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117: Multi-Module Builds in Gradle

In this episode, Donn and Kaushik sit down to talk about multi-module builds with Gradle. They talk about how you can separate your build into multiple different modules and how you might go about implementing it. They discuss build performance with incremental compilation, isolation of features, code ownership and how to handle cross-cutting concerns like persistence and networking.

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116: Learning Kotlin – inline, noinline and crossinline

In this episode of learning kotlin, we look at 3 important keywords – inline, noinline and crossinline. The inline keyword is super common and you’ve probably run across this one at some point. What does it mean and when is it useful? We also look at the related but seldom used variants noinline and crossinline.

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Code Snippets:

Simple inlined function:

// Kotlin 
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    functionA()
}

inline fun functionA() {
    println("awesomeness !")
}

Warning: Expected performance impact of inlining ‘public inline fun functionA() can be insignificant. Inlining works best for functions with lambda parameters

What the code looks like in Java:

public static final void main(String[] args) {
  String var1 = "awesomeness !";
  System.out.println(var1);
}

Function with lambda parameter:

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    functionA({
        println("double awesomeness")
    })
}

inline fun functionA(lambda: () -> Unit) {
    println("awesomeness !")
    lambda.invoke()
}

What the code looks like in Java (without inline):

public static final void main(String[] args) {
    functionA(new Function() {
      println("double awesomeness")  
    });
}

public static final void functionA(Function0 lambda) {
    String var1 = "awesomeness !";
    System.out.println(var1);
    lambda.invoke();
}

What the code looks like in Java (with inline):

public static final void main(String[] args) {
    String var1 = "awesomeness !";
    System.out.println(var1);
    String var2 = "double awesomeness";
    System.out.println(var2);
}

Function0:

public interface Function0<out R> : Function<R> {
    /** Invokes the function. */
    public operator fun invoke(): R
}

Misc:

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115: Architecture Components with Akshay Chordiya

In this episode, we talk about the different parts of Android architecture components. We’ve had episodes on Room and the paging library, so in this one, we thought we’ll touch a little on Lifecycle Owners & Observers, ViewModels, and LiveData. Akshay Chordiya helps break it down. Listen on!

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Lifecycle

ViewModels

Code snippet for a ViewModelFactory:

class UserVMFactory(
        val user: MyUser
) : ViewModelProvider.Factory {
    override fun <T : ViewModel?> create(modelClass: Class<T>): T {
        return when {
            modelClass.isAssignableFrom(UserVM::class.java) ->
                UserVM(user) as T
            else -> throw IllegalArgumentException("Unknown ViewModel class")
        }
    }
}

LiveData

Misc

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114 : All About CI & CD on App Center w/ Patrick Nikoletich

In this episode, we talk to Patrick Nikoletich from Microsofts App Center team. We explore the intricacies of the Continuous Integration server system on the App Center platform. From what App Center is, all the way down into the weeds to how to get your app building on App Center in a few short steps. We also get into the nitty-gritty details around how you can customize your build with build hooks, install utilities and binaries, work with a command line interface, shell scripts, the App Center API much much more. This episode shows a new side of Microsoft that we have not seen in a long time and it’s a breath of fresh air.

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  • VSTS: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/
  • Microsoft on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft
  • The App Center CLI: https://github.com/Microsoft/appcenter-cli
  • Azure function that automatically creates branch configurations for PR’s and communicates status back to Github.: https://github.com/pniko/function-appcenter-build-
  • App Center API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/api-docs/ & https://openapi.appcenter.ms/
  • Detox fo React Native Native: https://github.com/wix/detox
  • Azure Server Functions: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/

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