Workshop: Introduction to the Navigation Component

Featuring Lyla Fujiwara

This workshop will walk you through the basics of and motivation behind Android Jetpack's navigation component.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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...

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Lightning Talk: Play Multiplayer With No Connection

Featuring Fernando Prieto Moyano

NearbyPong is a game that Fernando Prieto and Ferran Ribell created at Karmarama several months ago. They wanted to develop a game that used the new Android Nearby API and Kotlin. In this game, you are basically able to connect with another user in the same area by using bluetooth and wifi to...

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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....

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