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droidcon SF 2018 Videos Released

droidcon SF was amazing! We had over 700 developers onsite attending more than 60 tech talks over two days. You can check out all the videos on our droidconSF YouTube channel.

In case you weren't there, you can check out the keynote by Britt Barack and the closing comedy talk by Chet Haase and Romain Guy right here.

Many thanks to our sponsor who made this all possible.

Thanks again for being part of our droidcon family and making 2018 a year to remember.

We look forward to seeing you again,

Your droidcon HQ Team

Evolution of Android Update SystemEvolution of Android Update System

By Ivan Kuten

So, how can you update Android on mobile devices? While developing software for Smart TVs and Android-based set-top boxes, we’ve narrowed it down to four ways, discarding some very exotic options:

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Happy Railway

By Hadi Lashkari Ghouchani

This post is on the tail of Railway Oriented Programming in Kotlin by Antony Harfield. So you need to read it first and continue here. As it’s obvious I really liked it and tried it out. It needs every process have a result like

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Unit Tests and Concurrency

By Stojan Anastasov

Once Retrofit added RxJava support, RxJava became my go-to concurrency framework for writing Android apps. One of the great things about RxJava is the excellent testing support. It includes TestObserver, TestScheduler, RxJavaPlugins so you can switch your schedulers in tests.

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When Compat libraries will not save you

By Danny Preussler

And why you should avoid using the “NewApi” suppression! The idea of “Compat” libraries was probably one of the key aspects of Android dominating the mobile space. Other than with iOS, Android users often could not update their operating system after a new version launch, simply as their phones won’t allow them to, the Android problem of fragmentation.

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