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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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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Adventures in Navigation

Featuring Daniel Galpin and Lyla Fujiwara

Take a spin with the new Android Jetpack Navigation Components library announced at Google I/O. The Navigation Components let you keep all of your navigation information in one place and include support for Material components such as bottom navigation, the app drawer, and the overflow menu.

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Cryptic to Clean: Architecture for Projects that Never Quite got around to it

Featuring Catalina Chioveanu and Andrew Fulcher

Clean architecture is increasingly popular in Android development, and you’ve probably seen elegant examples of it in inspiring talks and blog posts by experts in the field.

But what about the app your team works on? The one that was started in a hurry, with the intention of doing it right later...

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Mutative Design - Design for the "User", not "Users"

Featuring Faiz Malkani

Focus on the user, all else will follow. The splendid user-centric ideology strongly advocated by the Google Design team that - at a glance - makes perfect sense, but take a step back.

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Kotlinise your Gradle Build Scripts and Plugins

Featuring Marcin Koziński

Are you using Gradle to build your Android app? Are you writing Gradle plug-ins? You'll be delighted to learn you can do it in Kotlin and it'll make your life better

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Modularization - How Hard Can It Be?

Featuring Elin Nilsson

Modularizing Android codebases are all the hype these days. It can be as simple as moving a few files, and maybe creating a new build config or two along the way, or it can be much more gruelling.

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Machine Learning on Android: TensorFlow Lite

Featuring Laurence Moroney

Your next mobile app may not be coded traditionally and may be a machine-learned model.

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Why a Whole Country Skipped a Day: Fun with Timezones and Locales

Featuring Kai Koenig

The correct handling of timezones and locales is one of the most under-appreciated parts of software development. Commonly known as internationalisation (i18n), a lot of people underestimate the impact that getting it wrong can have for your users as well as your systems.

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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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