Download In this episode of our podcast, we explore the diverse landscape of Java versions within the Android ecosystem. Our guest is Michael Bailey, a seasoned Java expert who has been a frequent presence on our show since the early days of our podcast. We kick off with a solid foundation, discussing the differences between … Continue reading 249 – Java and the JDK: Powering the Android Landscape with Michael Bailey
Download In this edition of Fragmented, we’re thrilled to host Ishan Khanna, a software engineer at Tinder who possesses great enthusiasm for feature flags and A/B testing. Donn discusses why he invited Ishan on the show, highlighting Ishan’s passion for feature flagging and A/B testing. The conversation kicks off with an insightful story from Ishan … Continue reading 248 – Feature Flags & A/B Testing: A Deep Dive with Ishan Khanna
Download In this episode, we talk to, Siggi Jonsson. Siggi helps guide us through the complex and often confusing world of Android app modularization. Our conversation will begin by shedding light on the importance of modularization, what triggers the need for breaking projects into multiple modules, and how modularization relates to team size, feature teams, … Continue reading 247: The Art of App Modularization with Siggi Jonsson
Download In this podcast episode, we have the pleasure to host Fred Porciúncula, a Google Developer Expert (GDE) known for his work with Kotlin Inject and his invaluable contributions to the Android development community. Fred offers his expertise on Dependency Injection (DI), Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), and how they intersect. We kick off the conversation by … Continue reading 246 – Dependency Injection: Kotlin Inject with Fred Porciúncula
Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to an old friend of the show, Colin White, about Treehouse, a combination of the Redwood and Zipline libraries. Colin is a Staff Engineer at Cash App (Block). Redwood is a multiplatform Compose library that allows you to target multiple UI toolkits on various native platforms. Ultimately … Continue reading 245: Treehouse, Redwood and Zipline with Colin White
In this episode, Donn and Kaushik announce that they are steering the podcast back into Android waters. In other words, the Fragmented Podcast is returning to its roots … we’re back to being a 100% Android Development focused show. We’re glad to have you as a listener, here’s to the future of Android Development. 🚀 … Continue reading 244: Reviving Our Passion for Android Development
Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to long-time friend Dan Lew about his recent career switch from Android developer to TypeScript/Node.js/Progressive Web App Developer (and more). It’s an interesting discussion that covers … Why Dan decided to leave the Android world The challenges he faced when he moved from one tech stack to … Continue reading 243: Mastering the Art of Switching Careers in Tech with Dan Lew
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about one of the age old bike shedding topics – code formatting, and how you can solve it with automation and tools. Code formatting can turn into an endless debate amongst peers and teams, and what Kaushik and Donn … Continue reading 242 – Kotlin Code Formatting with ktfmt and spotless
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the fear of shipping, some impostor syndrome and how it contributes to uncertainty and doubt in your capabilities as a software developer. Recently Donn embarked on a mission to come up with an idea and ship it within … Continue reading 241: The Pressure to Ship. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about 5 new-ish Kotlin constructs that you might not be aware of. The constructs that they talk about are: fun interface (SAM – Single Abstract Method), and they juxtapose them vs function types type alias import alias value class … Continue reading 240: Important Kotlin Constructs
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this short episode, Donn talks about the CODEOWNERS file and how it can help you ensure teams review the code that they are responsible for before merging. The CODEOWNERS file is a file that you drop into the root of your project (or into the … Continue reading 239: Require PR Reviews with CODEOWNERS
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn talks about the tips and tricks he’s used over the last 20 years of consulting, freelancing and working full time to find jobs and new opporftunities. We’re hoping some of these tips help those affected by the recent tech layoffs. These are … Continue reading 238: How to Land a Job (if you got laid off or if you’re just starting out)
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about their thoughts on Jetpack Compose and XML for Android layouts and which one you should learn first. As with every conversation in tech … it depends on what you’re trying to do, where you are at in your … Continue reading 237: Compose vs XML – Which one should you learn as an Android Dev?
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about the thought of having a terminal for Android. Have you ever wished you could whip up a quick script to get the current location of a device, add it to cron and do some automated tasks on your … Continue reading 236: A Terminal for Android?
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Kaushik goes solo and interviews Ben Orenstein. Ben is a prolific Ruby developer, an amazing conference speaker, an ardent vim-ster, and now the CEO of Tuple. Kaushik has been a big fan of Ben’s work and was super stoked to talk to Ben … Continue reading 235: Pair programming with Ben Orenstein & Tuple
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about how many Android applications seem to suffer from the disease of over-architecture while neglecting the product (UI/UX) itself. They discuss why this is deterimental to the user experience in the Android platform and how they’ve seen it evolve … Continue reading 234: More Product. Less Architecture?
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to John Rodriguez (jrod) about the Paparazzi library which allows you to perform UI screenshot testing on Android without emulators or physical devices. They talk to John about what screenshot testing is, why it’s important, advantages and it’s disadvantages … Continue reading 233: UI Screenshot Testing with Paparazzi and John Rodriguez
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode Donn and Kaushik talk about frustration, finding “flow state” and how it’s known as “the madness” and how to deal with it. We originally were going to talk about an other topic, but during the off air banter Donn brought up how he … Continue reading 232: Frustration, Flow State and “The Madness”
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk to Android GDE Vinay Gaba about learning Jetpack Compose. They talk about how to learn how to use Jetpack Compose by example (and Vinay’s excellent talk by the same name). How to use Jetpackcompose.app to help you find the … Continue reading 231: Learning Jetpack Compose with Vinay Gaba
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download In this episode Donn talks about that pit of the stomach feeling we all get when we feel like we should know something but we don’t. It’s that voice in our head as developers that makes you feel like an idiot even when you’re not. Donn … Continue reading 230: Feeling Like an Idiot