FOMO in Android

With the new releases coming up in the Android ecosystem, it has become really tough to keep up the speed to learn and understand things. Something its overwhelming or somethings we feel lost about what and how things in Android

In this talk,
I will touch upon the following:
1. What is FOMO?
2. Why and How is everyone is in FOMO?
3. Is this even real?
4. How to be prepared for all of these?
5. What it means to be an Android developer these days?
6. How to keep up with the speed to learn things?

Transcript

6. - PaLM 2 - Bard - Pixel Fold - Project Tailwind - Project Starline - Many many more.. 6
7. How was it for Android ? 7
8. Form Factor AS Tooling PassKey 14 (Privacy & Security) Many more. Jetpack Glance (Alpha) Compose TV (alpha) KMM Foreground Service Studio Bot ART 14 8
9. This is tip of the IceBerg 9
10. This is tip of the IceBerg We are getting started 10
12. What? 12
13. What? How? 13
14. What? How? Why? 14
15. Why? - Learn if necessary - Think as a firm, not as a developer - Introspect if needed :) 15
18. What is Activity Lifecycle? 18
25. Time. A lot 25
30. Fear of Social Media 30
31. - Billion of tweets/msgs around - New Launches - New Job Switches - Cool stuff going around 31
32. 1000 Messaging / day on social media 32
35. KMM Architecture Android 14 Kotlin Compose Testing OSS Everything you don’t know. 35
37. Social Media Android Documentation Blogs Videos Open Source Projects 37
39. How to cope up with all the FOMO / FOSM? 39
41. and.. 41
43. Necessity Knowledge 43
44. Don’t be an engineer, be a user first Learn only when you need it! Don’t over engineer bcz of new stuff/releases You can’t know everything Knowing what you know in depth is important Keep improving And you will still be doing just fine! 44
46. android • Frontend Framework • It’s only UI • There is nothing much to do apart from parsing JSON 46
47. 12000 Devices to make for! != Frontend 14 versions Multiple devices Deprecation :P Form Factor Diff. OEMs 47
48. FAQs Frequently asked questions 48
49. 1. Right time to start Android? 49
50. 2. Native vs Hybrid? 50
51. 3. Compose vs XML? 51
52. 52 Cons of FOMO
53. 53 • FOMO can have a negative impact and make you feel stressed! • Will decrease productivity and increase procrastination • Reduces creativity! Summary