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Droidcon Notes

Day 1

Classy Shark

• Really cool tool http://www.classyshark.com for opening up any android executable and analyzing its content.
• Great for debugging and setting up proguard stuff
• Good for handling multidex-related questions
• Good for analyzing dependencies
• Has an easy to use GUI with a good search feature
• Good for general inspection of a project

Building Beautiful and Performant User Interfaces

• Use rebound (http://facebook.github.io/rebound/)
• Basically a bunch of other tips on how to do good UX... very little in the way of actual android tips

Mastering Deep Links For Android

• Use branch (https://branch.io)
• Totally free
• Built-in cross-platform support
• Supports FireOS
• Customizable user experience
• Built in metrics dashboard

Better Android Development with Kotlin and Gradle

• Kotlin is growing and finally starting to be adapted by some real teams
• Kotlin looks pretty awesome
• Kotlin is so simple that it could effectively be used in place of Gradle for functionality and simplicity
• Good because you can do your entire codebase in it (soon you can do xml layouts and drawables too)

P2P Apps and Offline Support

• Basically a sales pitch by couch db

Understanding Performance in the Wild

• Facebook does some crazy stuff in the linux kernel to measure performance on the go because all existing android solutions are terrible.
• Really cool stuff, but way too in-depth and would takes months and months to replicate.
• https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/android-ui-performance.html

Autoprofiling Apps on Every Build

• Lyft has their own caliper-like tool integrated into their build system with CI
• More of a general development process talk; was quite similar to ours

Day 2

Engaging User Experiences: Periscope Hearts and Chats

• Periscope has a really cool hearts animation
• Does anyone even use periscope though?

Frameworks for Coding Confidence

• Static analysis is super important
• Use Dagger 2
• Use annotations and actually process them so you can be confident they work before runtime
• Use Infer http://fbinfer.com and check out RAVE (can't find link)

Fluid Gestures

• Use rebound and custom animations

Forks, Fragmentation, and the Future of Android

• FireOS is one of the best forks
• Expect many more forks in the future as AFAAS (Android-Forks-As-A-Service) becomes a thing

Media on Android Components and Tricks

• Android has finally made a dynamic audio-buffer (making it much easier to send data over the audio jack) as part of M
• Avoid built-in MediaService

Building a Popular Open Source Library

• Basically common sense (good docs and tests)

Concurrency and Memory Management

• Way over-the-top