Faster Builds with Android Plugin for Gradle

Featuring Adarsh Fernando

Builds can always be faster. Whether you are a lone developer or a large team, a 10% build speed improvement adds up over the course of a project. And your time is important. If you're an Android Developer using Android Studio, you are already familiar with the Gradle build system and the...

Modularization - How Hard Can It Be?

Featuring Elin Nilsson

Modularizing Android codebases are all the hype these days. It can be as simple as moving a few files, and maybe creating a new build config or two along the way, or it can be much more gruelling.

Workshop: Let's Migrate to Gradle Kotlin DSL

Featuring Jorge Ortiz Fuentes

Gradle is an awesome and very powerful build tool. It is key to tune your build and even more relevant to achieve the promised karma of continuous integration.

However, one of its biggest "shortcomings" is that in order to extract any drop of power juice, you need to know and use...

Keynote: Refactoring to Functional

Featuring Hadi Hariri

Workshop: Creating DSLs in Kotlin

Featuring Hadi Hariri

One of Kotlin's powers is the ability to easily create Domain Specific Languages which can be used in your application. In this workshop you'll learn the basics of Kotlin functions and see how you can combine a series of features to create DSLs that can be used to represent a variety of...

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The Dynamics of Android App Bundles

Featuring Adarsh Fernando, Wojtek Kaliciński and Benjamin Weiss

At Google I/O 2018 they introduced the Android App Bundle—a new upload format that allows developers to deliver highly optimized downloads to users and take advantage of dynamic code-loading via Dynamic Delivery.

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Hire Better Faster Stronger

Featuring Vivien Barousse and Anastasia López

As a candidate, interviewing for a new job can be quite stressful and time consuming. It feels like you are being put through an exam. Often, you forget you are also evaluating the company you are interviewing with, especially when you start interviewing for the first time, and it is hard to know...

UI Profiling in Examples. Where is my Bottleneck?

Featuring Artur Badretdinov

You developed a feature, tested it yourself - everything works well. You send it to the internal testing, your managers... And they say it is slow!

Kotlinise your Gradle Build Scripts and Plugins

Featuring Marcin Koziński

Are you using Gradle to build your Android app? Are you writing Gradle plug-ins? You'll be delighted to learn you can do it in Kotlin and it'll make your life better

Exploring Android Path APIs

Featuring Rakshak Hegde

A Path is a representation of a series of lines, straight or curved, that can be drawn, used for clipping, or to draw text along the line.

Mutative Design - Design for the "User", not "Users"

Featuring Faiz Malkani

Focus on the user, all else will follow. The splendid user-centric ideology strongly advocated by the Google Design team that - at a glance - makes perfect sense, but take a step back.

Learning to play the guitar with Actions on Google

Featuring Joe Birch

Actions on Google is a fascinating platform that allows us to create conversational experiences. These experiences can cater for many use cases, allowing us to build conversation tools using both audio and visual means - allowing you to create interactions which are accessible to many users with...

Building VR Apps On Android

Featuring Julien Salvi

What's New in Android P Security?

Featuring Scott Alexander-Bown

What does the P stand for in Android P? Protection? Privacy? Or maybe Plethora of security enhancements? This talk will give you a concise update on these new security features, flag any breaking changes when targeting P as well as practical tips and examples of how to improve your app’s...

Redux on Android

Featuring Nish Tahir

The Redux architecture is fairly well known on the web and is quite new on Android.

In this talk, Nish will be exploring the Redux architecture and lessons learned from my experiences implementing it in production. His writings on the subject have gained a lot of traction since its initial...

How LayoutInflater Works

Featuring Michael Bailey

LayoutInflater is included in any View-based android app. Come learn about the internals of LayoutInflater, so you will be better prepared next time you are troubleshooting a Layout issue.

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Cryptic to Clean: Architecture for Projects that Never Quite got around to it

Featuring Catalina Chioveanu and Andrew Fulcher

Clean architecture is increasingly popular in Android development, and you’ve probably seen elegant examples of it in inspiring talks and blog posts by experts in the field.

But what about the app your team works on? The one that was started in a hurry, with the intention of doing it right later...

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Adventures in Navigation

Featuring Daniel Galpin and Lyla Fujiwara

Take a spin with the new Android Jetpack Navigation Components library announced at Google I/O. The Navigation Components let you keep all of your navigation information in one place and include support for Material components such as bottom navigation, the app drawer, and the overflow menu.

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Frictionless Android Testing

Featuring Stefan Ramsauer and Jonathan Gerrish

There are many testing tools available for Android and selecting the right tool can be confusing including how each tool has its own set of APIs to learn.

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Flipper, an Extensible Mobile App Debugger

Featuring Daniel Büchele and Emil Sjölander

Emil and Daniel will talk about Flipper, an extensible debugging tool for iOS and Android. They will focus on the Android side of the project talking about why they built the tool, how the tool can help your team be more efficient, and finally, they'll spend the majority of the talk speaking...