Be Like Water: Keeping Up with Android

Huyen's keynote from 360|AnDev about her stories, struggles, and strategies for keeping up with Android.

1. BE LIKE WATER HUYEN TUE DAO @QUEENCODEMONKEY
3. HOW I GOT INTO ANDROID…
4. BACK IN 2008-2011
5. THEN IN LATE 2011…
7. IT WAS ROUGH FOR A WHILE.
8. BUT THEN THERE WAS MOBILE.
11. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!— Flex MXML —> <s:Application xmlns:fx="http:!//ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library:!//ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library:!//ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout!/> !</s:layout> <s:Label id="label" text="Flexy"!/> <s:TextInput id="input" text="Enter text here"!/> !</s:Application> <?xml version="1.0" encoding=“utf-8"?> <!— Android XML —> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation=“vertical”> <TextView android:id=“@+id/label" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Android-y" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/input" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> </LinearLayout>
13. ANDROID CHANGES… ALL. THE. TIME.
14. ?
15. CHANGES TRANSFORM.
16. CHANGES KEEP US HONEST.
17. CHANGES CAN HELP FIX FLAWS.
18. CHANGES BRING THE NEW AND IMPROVED.
19. …OR SUPPORT A WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE
20. LIBRARIES/TOOLS/ PATTERNS CHANGE… ALL. THE. TIME.
21. ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW.
22. IT CAN BE… OVERWHELMING
23. DO YOU WANT ALLIGATORS? BECAUSE THAT IS HOW YOU GET ALLIGATORS. DON’T BE STAGNANT
24. WHAT’S HERE AND WHAT’S AHEAD
25. THANKS TO (JUST SOME OF) THE COOL KIDS BEN O. CHIU-KI C. CHRISTINA L. DAN L. JAKE W. JOHN R. KELLY S. KIRSTIN M. VISHNU R.
26. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
27. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
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29. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
30. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
31. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
32. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
33. PARTICIPATE. BUT YOU CAN LURK TOO.
34. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
35. KEEPING UP WITH THE ANDROIDS
36. “LET IT WASH OVER YOU.”
37. TAKE NOTE FOR LATER
38. TAKE NOTE FOR LATER
39. TAKE NOTE FOR LATER
40. SAVING IDEAS FOR WHEN YOU NEED THEM
41. KNOWING THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW X
42. JUST GO FOR IT.
43. TEACH YOURSELF + TRY STUFF OUT.
44. EXPERIMENT
45. TEACH YOURSELF + TRY STUFF OUT.
46. HAVE A TEST PROJECT
47. HAVE A TEST PROJECT
48. HAVE A SIDE PROJECT
49. HAVE A SIDE PROJECT
50. HAVE FUN. TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
51. GIVE A TALK
52. KEEP UP AT WORK
53. WHICH ISN’T ALWAYS EASY
54. BUT MAYBE TRY… PROOF OF CONCEPT COEXISTENCE ISOLATION GREEN FIELD
55. YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES A DROP AT A TIME
56. IT WILL BE ROUGH FOR A WHILE.
57. MY FIRST KOTLIN PR ACTUALLY, IT WAS AWESOME. ~1 comment per 6.5 lines
58. GEEK OUT. CELEBRATE.
60. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE COOL/NEW THING?!?
61. GOING WITH THE FLOW ISN’T BEING PASSIVE
62. BE OPEN. BE CURIOUS. BE CRITICAL. BE ANALYTICAL.
63. SOMETIMES YOU FIT IN THE CUP.
64. NOT SO MUCH. SOMETIMES…
65. IT DEPENDS.
66. SOMETIMES THERE’S A BIT OF LUCK.
67. DON’T DRINK THE POISON
68. DON’T DRINK THE POISON
69. DON’T NARROW THE SOLUTION SPACE
71. OKAY. HERE’S THE SECRET…
72. EVERYONE FEELS BEHIND EVEN THE COOL KIDS.
73. WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
74. THANK YOU! SPEAKERDECK.COM/QUEENCODEMONKEY YOUTUBE.COM/ANDROIDDIALOGS RANDOMLYTYPING.COM HUYEN TUE DAO @QUEENCODEMONKEY THANK YOU! SPEAKERDECK.COM/QUEENCODEMONKEY YOUTUBE.COM/ANDROIDDIALOGS RANDOMLYTYPING.COM HUYEN TUE DAO @QUEENCODEMONKEY
75. REFERENCES 75 Adobe Donates Flex to Apache | PCWorld | pcworld.com/ article/244060/adobe_donates_flex_to_apache.html Unit testing without Robolectric, Droidcon Berlin 2016 | slideshare.net/dpreussler/unit-testing-without-robolectric- droidcon-berlin-2016
76. REFERENCES 76 Google Developer Groups | developers.google.com/groups Meetup | meetup.com Android Summit | androidsummit.org Droidcon | droidcon.com Devoxx | devoxx.com/ GDG DevFest | developers.google.com/events/devfest/ Mobile Era | mobileera.rocks
77. REFERENCES 77 Training | Android Developers | developer.android.com/training/ index.html Codelabs | Google Developers | codelabs.developers.google.com/ Caster.IO | caster.io Android Training and Tutorials | lynda.com | lynda.com/Android- training-tutorials/947-0.html Android Development Tutorials | raywenderlich.com | raywenderlich.com/category/android Advent of Code | adventofcode.com
78. REFERENCES 78 Android Architecture Blueprints | github.com/googlesamples/ android-architecture Plaid | github.com/nickbutcher/plaid Moshi | github.com/square/moshi
79. REFERENCES 79 Android Developers Blog | developers.android.com | android- developers.googleblog.com Android Weekly | androidweekly.net
80. REFERENCES 80 Announcing Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET & Silverlight | blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rxteam/2009/11/17/announcing-reactive-extensions- rx-for-net-silverlight/ MS Open Tech Open Sources Rx (Reactive Extensions) – a Cure for Asynchronous Data Streams in Cloud Programming | blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/interoperability/2012/11/06/ms-open-tech-open- sources-rx-reactive-extensions-a-cure-for-asynchronous-data-streams-in- cloud-programming/ Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava | https://medium.com/netflix- techblog/reactive-programming-in-the-netflix-api-with-rxjava-7811c3a1496a