Preventing Analytics and Ads from polluting your codebase

by Savvas Dalkitsis

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10-12 September 2015 droidcon Greece Thessaloniki

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Preventing Analytics and Ads from polluting your codebase Lightweight android lifecycle annotations Savvas Dalkitsis Senior software engineer at Shazam @geeky_android

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Analytics

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Ads

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AOP

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Look at all the pretty diamonds

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http://shazam.github.io/android-aspects/ android-aspects

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DEMO

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•  Use cautiously •  Only for pure cross cutting concerns •  Don’t be afraid to move aspects back to business logic if over time it becomes apparent that it belongs there •  For uber-cross-cutting concerns (like global session management) you can use Application.registerActivityCallbacks Conclusions AOP is very powerful but very dangerous. “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”

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•  Pageviews •  Ads •  Implicit userevent parameters (screen name plus more) •  FAB •  HierarchyViewer aspect for debugging •  more to come… How do we use this @Shazam?

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Butterknife Aspects: https://github.com/savvasdalkitsis/butterknife-aspects Demo repo: https://github.com/savvasdalkitsis/android-aspects-example Examples

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Savvas Dalkitsis Senior software engineer / Shazam @geeky_android Thank you! droidcon Greece Thessaloniki