Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Building the Fabric SDKs - #MBLTDev (30 min)
Search
Sponsored
·
Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly.
Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest.
→
Ty Smith
October 28, 2014
Programming
220
3
Share
Embed
Copy iframe code
Copy JS code
Copy link
Start on current slide
Building the Fabric SDKs - #MBLTDev (30 min)
Ty Smith
October 28, 2014
More Decks by Ty Smith
See All by Ty Smith
Balancing Speed and Reliability: The Double-Edged Sword of Third-Party Libraries
tysmith
1
120
Mobile Developer Productivity at Uber Scale [Droidcon NYC 2022]
tysmith
6
2.4k
Building for Developers - Droidcon Italy 2019
tysmith
1
300
Tools of the Trade #DCNYC18
tysmith
5
290
ADDC 2018 - Ty Smith: Building for Developers
tysmith
2
180
Deep Android Integrations
tysmith
4
1.5k
Better Android Development with Kotlin and Gradle
tysmith
10
1.2k
Better Android Development with Kotlin and Gradle
tysmith
9
1.6k
App To Ap: Designing Local APIs On Android
tysmith
1
310
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
Even G2とAWSで推しのエージェントを召喚しよう!
har1101
1
140
自作OSでスライド発表する
uyuki234
1
3.6k
トークンをケチるな、設計しろ:GitHub Copilotを賢く使うコンテキスト戦略
ochtum
0
290
【やさしく解説 設計編 #0】DDDのコード、読めるのに分からない人へ
panda728
PRO
1
190
Generative UI & AI-Assistants for Your Angular Solutions
manfredsteyer
PRO
0
120
音楽のための関数型プログラミング言語mimiumにおける多段階計算の活用
tomoyanonymous
1
250
なぜ型を書くのか? TSKaigi2026で改めて考える #tskaigi_smarthr
kajitack
0
200
エージェンティックRAGにAWSで入門しよう!
har1101
9
1.9k
LLM本来の能力を解き放つサンドボックス技術とAI民主化への適用
yukukotani
3
4.8k
任せる範囲はこう広がった / How the Scope of AI Delegation Has Expanded
nrslib
1
230
Webフレームワークの ベンチマークについて
yusukebe
0
190
AI駆動開発を妨げる技術的負債の解消アプローチ / ai-refactoring-approach
minodriven
17
8.6k
Featured
See All Featured
Believing is Seeing
oripsolob
1
160
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
samanthasiow
85
9.5k
The SEO Collaboration Effect
kristinabergwall1
1
500
Cheating the UX When There Is Nothing More to Optimize - PixelPioneers
stephaniewalter
287
14k
SEOcharity - Dark patterns in SEO and UX: How to avoid them and build a more ethical web
sarafernandez
0
220
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
rmw
35
3.5k
I Don’t Have Time: Getting Over the Fear to Launch Your Podcast
jcasabona
34
2.8k
Building the Perfect Custom Keyboard
takai
2
810
The Hidden Cost of Media on the Web [PixelPalooza 2025]
tammyeverts
2
340
End of SEO as We Know It (SMX Advanced Version)
ipullrank
3
4.2k
Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI
inesmontani
PRO
4
2.4k
The Director’s Chair: Orchestrating AI for Truly Effective Learning
tmiket
1
210
Transcript
dev.twitter.com @tsmith Building the Fabric SDKs Ty Smith Sr. Android
Engineer
None
None
None
None
Fabric Sample App Cannonball Open source for iOS & Android:
github.com/twitterdev
Powerful Lightweight
Powerful
Ease of Integration
Ease of Integration Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics());
Extensible
Extensible Crashlytics.start(this);
Extensible Crashlytics.start(this, 5); Crashlytics.setListener(createCrashlyticsListener()); Crashlytics.setPinningInfo(createPinningInfoProvider()) Crashlytics.getInstance().setDebugMode(true);
Extensible Crashlytics.setListener(createCrashlyticsListener()); Crashlytics.setPinningInfo(createPinningInfoProvider()); Crashlytics.getInstance().setDebugMode(true); Crashlytics.start(this, 5);
Extensible Crashlytics.start(this, delay, listener, pinningInfo, debugMode);
Extensible Crashlytics.start(this, 0, null, null, null, true);
Fluent Pattern Crashlytics crashlytics = new Crashlytics.Builder() .delay(1) .listener(createCrashlyticsListener()) .pinningInfo(createPinningInfoProvider())
.build(); Fabric.with(this, crashlytics);
Fluent Pattern Fabric.with(new Fabric.Builder(this) .kits(new Crashlytics()) .debuggable(true) .logger(new DefaultLogger(Log.VERBOSE)) .looper(getCustomLooper())
.executor(getCustomExecutorService()) .build());
Extensible Classes class MyApiClient extends TwitterApiClient { interface MyService {
@GET(“/1.1/statuses/show.json”) Tweet getTweet(@Query(“id”) int id); } MyService getMyService() { return getService(MyService.class); } }
Gracefully Degrade
Gracefully Degrade if (TextUtils.isEmpty(apiKey) if (debuggable){ throw new IllegalArgumentException( “apiKey
is null!"); } else { return null; } }
Minimizing Permissions
Minimizing Permissions <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
Minimizing Permissions Crashlytics.setUserEmail(“
[email protected]
”);
Permissions: Runtime Detection protected boolean canCheckNetworkState() { String permission =
Manifest.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE; int result = context.checkCallingOrSelfPermission(permission); return (result == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED); }
Multiple Application Types
Multiple Application Types package com.example; import android.app.Service; public class MyService
extends Service { }
UI from Application Context WeakReference<Activity> currentActivity = new WeakReference<Activity>(); @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH)
void registerLifecycleCallbacks() { if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.FROYO) { final Application app = ((Application)context); app.registerActivityLifecycleCallbacks( new ActivityLifecycleCallbacks() { @Override public void onActivityResumed(Activity activity) { currentActivity.set(activity); } }); } }
Powerful SDKs Ease of Integration Extensibility Support all app types
Permission detection
Lightweight
Binary Size
Binary Size
3rd Party Library Mindfulness
3rd Party Library Mindfulness
How big are Fabric AARs? Fabric: 190kb Crashlytics: 90kb Beta:
13kb Answers: 20kb Twitter API & SSO: 296kb Tweet UI: 120kb Tweet Composer: 5kb Digits: 236kb
3rd Party Library Mindfulness PROTOBUF KB OURS KB
Dalvik Method Count
Dalvik Method Count >./gradlew assemble … Unable to execute dex:
method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536
Dalvik Method Count > git clone
[email protected]
:mihaip/dex-method-counts.git > cd dex-method-counts
> ant jar > ./dex-method-counts path/to/App.apk Read in 65490 method IDs. <root>: 65490 : 3 accessibilityservice: 6 bluetooth: 2 content: 248 pm: 22 res: 45 ... com: 53881 adjust: 283 sdk: 283
Minimize Network Usage
Network Usage 10X SMALLER 100X FASTER XML PROTOBUF
Reduce Startup Time
Startup Time Thread.start(); Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
Startup Time class MyThreadFactory implements ThreadFactory { @Override public Thread
newThread(Runnable runnable) { final Thread thread = new Thread(runnable); thread.setPriority(Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND); return thread; } }
Lightweight SDKs Binary size 3rd party library mindfulness Dalvik Method
Count Network usage Startup time
Lightweight Powerful
Questions? dev.twitter.com @tsmith