Skills Matter droidcon London 2019 Wrap Up!

Featuring Ariel Horn

Join us for this wrap up of 2 days of droidcon London joy!

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Pushing Dynamic Features Your Users Want, As Quick As They Want Them

Featuring Raul Hernandez Lopez

Many successful Android apps offer multiple features and components that work together to provide a great user experience. Although you want all prospective users to have the ability to install your app, this may not be possible due to limitations in storage and network connection, especially in...

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Effective Reactive Architecture

Featuring Benoît Quenaudon

Your relationship with RxJava doesn't have to be complicated. You may have found many ways to use it wrong but it is powerful when used properly.In fact, RxJava can guide you in shaping a sound architecture for your app. To do this, you only have to follow a few but decisive principles.

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The Android Chef

Featuring Anastasia López

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” - Julia Child.

The first lessons of an apprentice cook typically focus on identifying quality. Reinforced by repetitive acts, which helps understand the...

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Inhibiting the impostor

Featuring Ana Baotić

Have you ever had an experience where a small voice in your head prevented you from acting on an idea, stopped you from sharing your knowledge or trying something new, or maybe even made you feel like your achievements were nothing special? That voice is more common than you think! In this talk...

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A deep dive into Google Play Billing Library

Featuring Kai Koenig

Google's APIs and libraries used for in-app-billing users from inside of your app, are confusing at best. The new star on the horizon is Google Play Billing Library, centered around a BillingClient class. GPBL is supposed to make your life much easier - but does it really?

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Lightning Talk: How Personal Retrospectives Helped Me Being Lazy

Featuring Jakob Durstberger

Personal retrospectives are a great tool to help you stay on track to achieve your goals. Funnily enough Jakob has also noticed a few more positive side effects, especially that they help him enjoy being lazy. Jakob will share with you how that makes sense and how you should try personal...

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Measure What Matters with Jetpack Benchmark

Featuring JB Lorenzo

Benchmark is one of the new interesting libraries recently released by the Jetpack team at Google. This library allows you to measure the speed of certain parts of your application. This is helpful to validate certain parts of your app that are repeatedly accessed such as going into details of...

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Do the Loco-MotionLayout: Building animations with MotionLayout

Featuring Michael Scamell

You’ve heard, seen or witnessed the buzz around MotionLayout. But what does it look like in real life? What are some of its current limitations? How easy is it to use? Are the demos that you’ve seen actually possible? Or is it all a ruse? In this session, you’ll use MotionLayout to develop an...

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Lightning Talk: The Future of Android Location Services

Featuring Joshua Critchley-Marrows

Currently smartphone navigation can only achieve accuracies of 5 m at best – this won’t be the case for much longer. The FLAMINGO initiative, part sponsored by the European GNSS Agency, is introducing technology to Android developers to permit positioning accuracy of 1m or better, the baseline...

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