The Development Landscape in 2019/2020

Presentation given to students about the software development landscape and the relevant technologies to focus on today.

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1. The Development landscape in #2020 - Mobile, Web, Hybrid, Cloud? Thean Hoogenboezem @TheanHoogenboe1 Mobile Engineering Lead
2. Introduction - Who am I?
3. Development Landscape - Introduction • Talk goal ◦ Understanding the vast software development landscape practiced by industry • Why is this important? ◦ This landscape is changing more rapidly than ever • Bound to remain changing rapidly
4. Technology Landscape - Mobile Devices
7. Development 2019/2020 • Company Goals / Expectations ◦ Fast Delivery ◦ Maintainability ◦ Scalability ◦ Reliability ◦ Cost Effective Solutions • Consumer Expectation ◦ Good user experience ▪ Well designed UI’s ▪ Ease of use ◦ Performance ▪ Responsiveness
8. Development 2019/2020 • Developer Expectation ◦ Ease of development ▪ Dev Spec Machines ▪ Fast Internet Connections ▪ Dev Documentation ▪ Dev tools ▪ Community of developers adopting technology ◦ Best Practices
9. Dev Practices 2019/2020 • Clean Coding Principles • Architectures ◦ MVC ◦ MVP ◦ MVVM ◦ MVI • Frameworks ◦ Web / Mobile ◦ Backend / Services / API • API ◦ REST ◦ SOAP
10. Dev Practices 2019/2020 • Unit and Integration Testing • Code Reviews • Automation Testing - QA • CI / CD ◦ Source Control - Git ◦ Build Pipelines ◦ App deployment • Agile Development Practices ◦ Scrum ◦ Kanban ◦ SAFe 4.0 • Etc.
11. Mobile Dev 2019/2020 • Android - Native ◦ Android Studio ◦ Kotlin ◦ JetPack - Libraries ◦ Architecture Components • iOS - Native ◦ XCode and AppCode ◦ Swift ◦ SwiftUI
12. Mobile Dev 2019/2020 • Flutter ◦ Android Studio / Visual Studio Code ◦ Dart ◦ Early days ◦ Compiles to Native / Hybrid • Xamarin ◦ C# ◦ Hybrid ◦ Android and iOS
13. Mobile Dev 2019/2020 • Angular ◦ WebStorm / Visual Studio Code ◦ TypeScript ◦ PWA and TWA’s • Ionic ◦ JS ◦ Capacitor ◦ Multiple Platform ▪ iOS ▪ Android ▪ Web
14. Mobile Dev 2019/2020 • React Native ◦ VSCode ◦ Hybrid with native support ▪ iOS ▪ Android ▪ Web ◦ Compatible with existing apps and code
15. Web Dev 2019/2020 • Angular • ReactJS • VueJS • Ember • Express • NodeJs • Meteor • Ionic
16. Web Dev 2019/2020 • Django ◦ Python • Spring ◦ Java • Ruby on Rails ◦ Ruby ◦ MVC Framework • ASP.NET ◦ C#, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap ◦ MVC Framework • PHP Frameworks
17. Web Dev 2019/2020 • Stencil - Hot Topic! ◦ Web components ◦ Compatible with most JS web frameworks ◦ Apple and other big corporates adopting ◦ Watch this space...
18. Backend Dev 2019/2020 • Java Enterprise ◦ Spring Boot ◦ NetFlix OSS • .NET ◦ ASP.NET ◦ SQL Server • NodeJS ◦ Thin integration layer
19. Backend New and Cloud 2019/2020 • New Backend Dev ◦ KTOR ▪ Kotlin Server Side ◦ Swift Server ▪ Swift Server Working Group ( SSWG ) • Cloud ◦ Azure Cloud ▪ Microsoft ◦ AWS Cloud ▪ Amazon • Many others
20. Containerisation - Scalability • Docker • Kubernetes ◦ Orchestration tool
21. Data Science 2019/2020 • Machine Learning • Data Sciences • Many frameworks and solutions • Global focus • Swift Interoperability to Python
22. AR in 2019/2020 • ARCore by Google • ARKit by Apple • Vuforia Engine - Unity • MAXST SDK • WikiTude
23. Conclusion • Software Development ◦ Vast Body of Knowledge • Explore and be curious about technology innovation ◦ Research ◦ Be passionate! • Proactive awareness