Gumtree
Gumtree is the UK’s #1 classifieds website. It’s a place that connects people - buying or selling something they own, searching for a new job, a flat or a new ride. Gumtree is a community that brings these opportunities to 1 in 3 adults every month. Current figures show that 37% of the UK digital population visited Gumtree in August 2016 and that the Gumtree smartphone app, launched in 2012, has been downloaded over 13.9 million times.
Our technology is built in-house and based in London. We’re a passionate team and believe in delivering a great user experience for our customers, striving to improve our product and systems is what we do. Lots of things are happening here (tech workshops, hackathons or pulling trucks - just to name a few), you can check us out on Twitter @GumtreeDevTeam Also, Gumtree is hiring. We are looking for passionate engineers for all roles, so come speak to us!
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Making fully Reactive apps using advanced RxJava
Featuring Paco Estevez
Francisco has been developing using Functional Reactive Programming for the past two years, learning from his mistakes. He's delivered one full production application (52 screens, real-time intra-day trading!) whose features were expressed completely using functional style using RxJava. At...
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Scaling Android @Facebook
Featuring Balazs Balazs and Marco Cova
Before Marco and Balasz both joined Facebook, they would read all these absurd news and stories about Android development at Facebook. Crazy, unnecessary, overcomplicated hacks everywhere... they knew better... well... with an inside perspective it turns out they are not so crazy after all (for...
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Product VS Craft
Featuring Juan Delgado
This is a talk about how shifting the focus from craft to product has affected ustwo. Our delivery teams are required everyday to make trade offs between what would the best technical solution and the one that is right for the product they are delivering.
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To ∞ (~65K) and beyond!
Featuring Sebastiano Gottardo
It’s 2016 even for us, Android developers. We can expect lots of new awesome libraries, services and tools to make our life easier.
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Keynote: VR and AR - Technologies 40,000 years in the making
Featuring Noah Falstein
Virtual and Augmented reality are at once both sparkly brand new, and descendants of humanity's most ancient arts. Google's Chief Game Designer will bring some perspective to the origins of these technologies, why they matter to us in terms of evolution and storytelling, and give an...
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A New View: Layout Editor + ConstraintLayout
Featuring Huyen Tue Dao
The new ConstraintLayout is not just a new component but a new method of building UI in Android. Coupled with the new and improved layout tools in Android Studio, the ConstraintLayout looks to provide developers with flexibility, adaptability, and efficiency, both in the layouts themselves and in...
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