Remote and Lonely

Talk presented at Droidcon London 2016

Being the only developer in a project can be frustrating, everything falls into your shoulders and it's very easy to get trapped into bad habits. You are not alone! There are many tools, practices and services that will make your life easier... and efficient!

Several months ago David joined Help Scout as the only Android Developer with the main purpose of building their Android application from scratch. Coming from an agency environment where there were more than 30 developers willing to discuss and present different ideas, it's been quite a challenge.

This talk shares David's experience, explaining what tools, practices and methodologies he's followed. Being the only developer is no impediment to build great quality code, follow good design patterns and delight your users.

How to do Pull Requests, Code Reviews, Design Reviews, Continuous Delivery and Integration... Whether you are a one man band or work with a team, these tips will help you become a better programmer!

Transcript

1. Memories of a remote and lonely Android developer
3. The development
5. Your main goal is to ship a product
7. Naming http://arlobelshee.com/good-naming-is-a-process-not-a-single-step/ https://overflow.buffer.com/2016/09/26/android-rethinking-package-structure/
8. Static analysis
9. The process
10. Who is going to review my code?
11. Page heading Open Pull Request !rst, the old way
12. Page heading Pull Requests now
13. The planning
19. Github integration in Android Studio
20. The shipping
21. Jenkins DSL plugin https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin def gitUrl = 'git://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin.git' job('PROJ-unit-tests') { scm { git(gitUrl) } triggers { scm('*/15 * * * *') } steps { maven('-e clean test') } }
22. Plugin con!guration androidLint('**/outputs/lint-results.xml') { thresholdLimit('low') useStableBuildAsReference(false) useDeltaValues(false) shouldDetectModules(false) thresholds( unstableTotal: [all: 3, high: 3, normal: 3, low: 3], failedTotal: [all: 3, high: 3, normal: 3, low: 3], unstableNew: [all: 0, high: 0, normal: 0, low: 0], failedNew: [all: 0, high: 0, normal: 0, low: 0] ) }
23. Plugin con!guration checkstyle('**/checkstyle/*.xml') { thresholdLimit('low') useStableBuildAsReference(false) useDeltaValues(false) shouldDetectModules(false) thresholds( unstableTotal: [all: 2, high: 2, normal: 2, low: 2], failedTotal: [all: 2, high: 2, normal: 2, low: 2], unstableNew: [all: 0, high: 0, normal: 0, low: 0], failedNew: [all: 0, high: 0, normal: 0, low: 0] ) }
24. Conditional actions flexiblePublish { conditionalAction { condition { and { status('SUCCESS', 'SUCCESS') } { not { stringsMatch('$ON_MAINLINE', 'true', false) } } }
25. The pipeline
26. Amazon Device Farm and Jenkins
27. Publish to Beta apply plugin: 'com.github.triplet.play' def playstoreServiceAccount = System.env.PLAYSTORE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT def playstorePk12File = System.env.PLAYSTORE_PK12_FILE if (playstoreServiceAccount && playstorePk12File) { play { track = 'beta' serviceAccountEmail = playstoreServiceAccount pk12File = rootProject.file(playstorePk12File) } } project.afterEvaluate { def publishApkRelease = project.tasks.getByName("publishApkRelease") def incrementVersionForRelease = project.tasks.getByName("incrementVersionForRelease") publishApkRelease.dependsOn incrementVersionForRelease
28. Questions? David González @dggonzalez malmstein@gmail.com