The Context #androiddev

Episode 29: How It’s Made — Babylon Health

Hannes talked to Sakis Kaliakoudas how Babylon Health build their Apps. Sakis shared how the Babylon Health Android app is architected by using MVI and clean architecture, how they document their code base, how the CI pipeline looks like, how feature teams are organized and much more. Links: * Orbit Android MVI [https://github.com/babylonhealth/orbit-android-mvi] to build MVI android applications. * Babylon Health Engineering Blog [https://medium.com/babylon-engineering] * Certificate transparency security library [https://github.com/babylonhealth/certificate-transparency-android] * Markdown Lint [https://github.com/appmattus/markdown-lint] * ArchUnit [https://github.com/TNG/ArchUnit] * Open Source Hiring Document [https://github.com/babylonhealth/android-playbook] Guests * Sakis Kaliakoudas: Twitter [https://twitter.com/skaliakoudas], GitHub [https://github.com/athkalia] Hosts * Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter [https://twitter.com/sockeqwe], GitHub [https://github.com/sockeqwe], blog [http://hannesdorfmann.com] Discussion Give us your opinion on the episode [https://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/TheContext-Podcast/issues/123]!

Episode 28: Fun with Canvas with Rebecca Franks from Over

Hannes talked to Rebecca Franks how the Over android app uses canvas to create an interactive editor. Rebecca shared some tips and tricks how to work efficiently with Canvas, Bitmaps, which architecture Rebecca's team has chosen and how they test their app. Links: * Android Canvas APIs with Kotlin and KTX [https://riggaroo.co.za/android-canvas-apis-with-kotlin-and-ktx/] * Building Responsive / Resizable Android UIs for ChromeOS [https://riggaroo.co.za/building-responsive-resizable-android-uis-for-chromeos/] * Graphical editor with masking [https://twitter.com/riggaroo/status/1105027835842957314] * Animations with MotionLayout inside the Over app [https://twitter.com/riggaroo/status/1100360450435358721] * Over Android App [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.over.editor] Guests * Rebecca Franks: Twitter [https://twitter.com/riggaroo], GitHub [https://github.com/riggaroo], blog [https://riggaroo.co.za] Hosts * Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter [https://twitter.com/sockeqwe], GitHub [https://github.com/sockeqwe], blog [http://hannesdorfmann.com] Discussion Give us your opinion on the episode [https://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/TheContext-Podcast/issues/119]!

Episode 27: Reusable Components with Sebastian Kaspari from Mozilla Firefox

Hannes talked to Sebastian Kaspari how Mozilla builds reusable android components for Firefox. Links: * Mozilla Android Components [https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components] * Mozilla Android Components Documentation [https://mozac.org] * Gradle Composite Builds [https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/composite_builds.html] * GeckoView [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView] Guests * Sebastian Kaspari: Twitter [https://twitter.com/Anti_Hype], GitHub [https://github.com/pocmo] Hosts * Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter [https://twitter.com/sockeqwe], GitHub [https://github.com/sockeqwe], blog [http://hannesdorfmann.com] Discussion Give us your opinion on the episode [https://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/TheContext-Podcast/issues/116]!

Episode 26: How It’s Made — Juno

We continue our How It’s Made series: Hannes and Artur are talking about how Juno, the company Artur works in, does product engineering. Links: * Multi-tiered technical support [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_support#Multi-tiered_technical_support] * Git branching model [https://artemzin.com/blog/git-ftfy-branching-model-continuation-of-git-flow-considered-harmful/] * Rolling release [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release] * Kotlin SAM (single abstract method) issue [https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-14984] * Domic — UI abstraction, similar to internal Juno one [https://github.com/lyft/domic] * Multi-tier architecture [https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PresentationDomainDataLayering.html] * Gradle Kotlin DSL [https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl] * Mainframer [https://github.com/buildfoundation/mainframer] * Bitrise [https://www.bitrise.io/] * Elasticsearch [https://www.elastic.co/] * Grafana [https://grafana.com/] * Juno Careers [https://gojuno.com/careers/] * Artur’s slides about Juno Kotlin experiences [https://speakerdeck.com/arturdryomov/kotlin-max-payne-voxxed-days-minsk-may-2018] * Artur’s blog with details about IoC, Reactive approaches and more [https://arturdryomov.online/] Hosts * Artur Dryomov: Twitter [https://twitter.com/arturdryomov], GitHub [https://github.com/ming13], blog [https://arturdryomov.online] * Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter [https://twitter.com/sockeqwe], GitHub [https://github.com/sockeqwe], blog [http://hannesdorfmann.com] Discussion Give us your opinion on the episode [https://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/TheContext-Podcast/issues/114]!

Episode 25: How It’s Made — Freeletics

This episode is starting a series about Android application development. Hannes and Artur are talking about how Freeletics, the company Hannes works in, does product engineering. Links: * Freeletics [https://www.freeletics.com] * Video: Working at Freeletics [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xlCTv1rqY] * John Locke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke] * Koin [https://insert-koin.io/] * RxRedux [https://github.com/freeletics/RxRedux] * CoRedux [https://github.com/freeletics/CoRedux] * Mosby [https://github.com/sockeqwe/mosby] * The Test Pyramid [https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html] * Freeletics Engineering Blog [https://freeletics.engineering/] Hosts * Artur Dryomov: Twitter [https://twitter.com/arturdryomov], GitHub [https://github.com/ming13], blog [https://arturdryomov.online] * Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter [https://twitter.com/sockeqwe], GitHub [https://github.com/sockeqwe], blog [http://hannesdorfmann.com] Discussion Give us your opinion on the episode [https://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/TheContext-Podcast/issues/111]!