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...

Lightning Talk: Android Development on Bazel

Featuring Daniel Whang

Bazel is the open sourced version of Google’s internal build system. In this session you will learn how Bazel can become an integral part of your Development workflow.

Firebase and Android Jetpack: Fit Like A Glove

Featuring Doug Stevenson

During this session Doug will share with you a deep dive into the use of Jetpack’s Android Architecture Components, along with Firebase to keep your app’s data fully synchronized and automatically refreshed with live updates from Realtime Database and Firestore. Make sure to bring an Android...

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Designing With Constraints

Featuring John Hoford and Sean McQuillan

In this talk you will learn best practices for using Constraint Layout on Android. If you've been using Constraint Layout since release or are just checking it out this talk is for you. Learn when to use Constraint Layout, and equally important, when to use other layouts. Sean and John will...

Why Effective Java Still Matters to Kotlin Developers

Featuring Matthew Dolan

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch profoundly influenced the design of Kotlin yet by exploring a selection of "items" from the book you will see how it is still just as relevant to Kotlin developers today when we aim to write Effective Kotlin code.

For example, consider how data classes...

Workshop: Firebase Cloud Firestore: Deep Dive

Featuring Kaan Mamikoglu

Firebase offers two cloud-based, client-accessible database solutions that support realtime data syncing. In this workshop, you'll explore Cloud Firestore, Firebase's new database solution. Cloud Firestore is an efficient, low-latency database solution for mobile apps that is optimized...

Kotlin Multiplatform Architecture

Featuring Kevin Galligan

Code sharing options for mobile have existed for years, but most tend to be relatively obscure (Rubymotion), difficult to use (C++), or limited in scope or developer interest (J2objc). Kotlin Multiplatform will emerge as an option that allows significant sharing of logic and architecture, while...

A Slice of Android Slices

Featuring Adnan A M

In this talk, Adnan will share with you how to setup and integrate the new Slices feature announced at Google I/O 2018. He will look at the technical details of building and showing up a slice in Search results and other apps.

Smooth Criminals, Animation in Android

Featuring Stacy Devino

"How did they do that?!" How many times have you been just stunned, STUNNED by the work you see others do in a fully native app? Smooth, layered animations for every transition that work on even $20 phones? It's not magic and it may not be as difficult or as "mathy" as you...

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Modern Data Binding

Featuring Yigit Boyar and Jose Alcerreca

Data Binding isn't just for… binding data. It can influence your architecture, remove code from activities, increase your productivity and make your layouts more declarative. In this session, Jose and Yigit will explore the best practices enabled by data binding and highlight patterns to...

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Designing APIs for Performance

Featuring Andy Street and Pasquale Anatriello

Learn how Andy and Pasquale design APIs at Facebook that makes it easy for developers to fall into "the pit of success" when it comes to performance, and open up the opportunity for further performance improvements in the future. These APIs have to scale to hundreds of product...

Sharing is Caring: Material Design and Shareable UI Components

Featuring Nicolette Yadegar

Have you ever used an app that looks like each screen was designed by a different company? Or worse, based on iOS hand-me-down design mocks? No matter how feature rich or well architected an app is, a jarring user experience casts a shadow on all the hard work that we do.

The application...

Deep Dive into the Android Gradle Plugin

Featuring John Rodriguez

Android developers use it every day, but who knows what actually goes on under the hood of the Android Gradle Plugin?

Applications Should Be For Everyone. It's In Your Hands

Featuring Britt Barak

Britt loves her Nanna so much. She’s funny, she’s cool and she always has strawberries for her. When she told Britt she's starting to have difficulties to see, Britt went through some of her favorites apps which are actually hard to use.

Not every developer knows that with just some simple...

Live Coding: Cool ConstraintLayout 2.0

Featuring Huyen Tue Dao

ConstraintLayout has had quite a 2018: the release of 1.1 in April and then announcement of 2.0 in May. The ConstraintLayout team has certainly kept us all busy with frequent updates and new features including groups, barriers, circular constraints, and optimizations. As if that wasn't...

Coroutines By Example

Featuring Christina Lee

Coroutines are not a new concept, but they are much abuzz in the Kotlin community. To date, many articles and talks have focused on what coroutines are and why, conceptually, they are useful.

In this talk, Christina shifts the focus to how to use them via pragmatic, use case generated examples....