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droidcon London 2019

Two days in London

Take your Android development skills to new levels at droidcon London 2019, the biggest Android developer conference in Europe.

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Lightning Talk: Bridging the Gap Between Front End and Back End

Featuring Pere Villega

Bridges is a library by Dave Gurnell that generates front end code (currently Elm, Typescript, and Flow) from your case classes.

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Lightning Talk: Building Composable Caches on Android

Featuring Matthew Dolan

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Scala Scripting - Intermediate

Featuring Li Haoyi

During this talk, you will discover a new script-file format for writing your Scala code. Unlike traditional Scala projects, which are built with SBT or Maven or Ant and edited inside your IDE, Scala Scripts do not need a "project" or "build tool" in order to run. You simply...

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The Essence of Testing - Beginner

Featuring Bill Venners

After almost ten years of working on ScalaTest, there is still lots of potential for improvement of the library. In this talk, Bill Venners will share what he has come to believe is the essence of testing, and learn to evolve ScalaTest as a result. You will discover the propositional and...

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Contextual: Easy compile-time checking of interpolated strings without macros!

Featuring Jon Pretty

Interpolated strings, like the familiar s"", provide a convenient way to embed external DSLs in Scala source, allowing you to construct a new value at runtime from a string literal, with Scala expressions substituted within it.

But unless you are prepared to implement the interpolator...

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Skyscraper: Restructuring the Web

Featuring Daniel Janus

This talk will describe Skyscraper, a library that allows for easy scraping of entire Web sites. You will discover how Skyscraper grew organically as a generalization of individual scrapers tailored to different websites, how abstractions common to these scrapers were found, and how these...

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Getting to know the Zendesk Support SDK

Featuring Brendan Fahy

Supporting your users can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. The Zendesk Support SDKs provide an easy way to give your users access to Help Center content, to contact support agents, and to provide you with feedback.

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Android Testing Support Library: The Nitty Gritty

Featuring Zan Markan

8 years since Android’s been released, the M&S Digital team finally has a proper Google-supported solution for testing in the Testing Support Library. Zan will explore the various stages of it, explore its (not so) hidden features and learn how to use it to build better apps.

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