Davis Technology Consulting
Over the past few months my team has been steadily moving our code over to Kotlin. It’s been a joy to get to work with such a succinct, yet expressive language. However, I have spent needless hours attempting to debug issues in my application that were all solved with the addition of this one thing: @JvmSuppressWildcards.
RxBinding provides RxJava binding APIs for Android User Interface (UI) widgets. This allows us to easily translate Android UI events into Observable streams. Let’s look at a simple example of this: we’re going to consider how to execute an asynchronous network request from a Button click event.
This was the first year for the DroidCon Boston Conference. I put together a few highlights of the event below:
Ted is playing the keytar at the entrance of @droidconbos! #droidconbos #droidcon pic.twitter.com/YO6UOhOPK8
— Tyler Nappy (@tylernappy) April 10, 2017
Developing Android applications is a powerful way to connect people with the information they need the most. Apps are for living your life: daily commutes, traveling abroad, communicating with family, and much more! This places the responsibility of engineering top-notch software squarely in the laps of us developers. Unlike doctors, we were not required to take an oath or pledge when becoming Android Developers. However, we can still learn much from the principles behind the phrase, “First, do no harm.” In this talk, we will discuss over a dozen tools that are at your disposal as a developer which can enable you to provide high quality applications to your users. Thus allowing you to first, do no harm!
