Real World Android Development

Android development tooling has made it very easy to go from 'File -> New Android Project' to an app ready for download in the Google Play Store. This is great for solo developers or for 'one-off' apps that aren't expected to last long but what about apps built by teams and are expected to last longer than the latest flagship device from HTC or Samsung? In this talk I’ll share some best practices and hard-won lessons learned about planning, building, testing and shipping Android applications that are built to last.

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1. Real World
   Android Development
   Kevin McMahon
   @klmcmahon
   

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2. Successful
   Projects
   

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3. 3 Phases
   Bootstrap
   Development
   Maintenance
   

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4. Preparation
   

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5. People
   

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9. 2 TRaits
   ACTIVE LEARNers
   Saavy
   

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10. On Boarding
    

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11. Learning
    Organization
    

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13. Process
    

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15. APp Definition
    COULD DO
    WANT TO
    HAVE TO
    

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16. “You simply cannot have a
    hot dog stand
    without any
    hot dogs.”
    

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17. I’m Bored
    

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18. I’m local
    

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19. I’m microtasking
    

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20. 5 w
    

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21. Sprint 0
    

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24. Scope,time,cost
    

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25. Technologies
    

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27. fragmentation
    

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28. minVersionSdk=’14’
    

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29. Tools
    

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32. Open Source
    •Action Bar
    Sherlock
    •Dagger
    •Otto
    •OkHttp
    •GSON
    •CommonsWare
    •Polaris
    •Crouton
    •Robotium
    •ViewPagerIndicator
    

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33. http://appDevwiki.com
    

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34. Security
    

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36. Security
    Obfuscation
    Data Protection
    Approaches
    

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38. Maintenance
    

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39. Bit ROt
    ROI
    Tests
    

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40. REcap
    

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41. Preparation
    

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42. People
    

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43. Process
    

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44. Technologies
    

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45. Success
    

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46. http://gplus.to/kevinmcmahon
    http://about.me/KevinMcMahon
    @klmcmahon
    

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