Be Like Water: Keeping Up with Android

Huyen's keynote from 360|AnDev about her stories, struggles, and strategies for keeping up with Android.

Transcript

1. BE LIKE WATER
   HUYEN TUE DAO
   @QUEENCODEMONKEY
   

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3. HOW I GOT INTO
   ANDROID…
   

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4. BACK IN 2008-2011
   

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5. THEN IN LATE 2011…
   

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7. IT WAS ROUGH
   FOR A WHILE.
   

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8. BUT THEN THERE
   WAS MOBILE.
   

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11. 
    
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    xmlns:s="library:!//ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
    xmlns:mx="library:!//ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
    
    
    !
    
    
    !
    
    
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation=“vertical”>
    android:id=“@+id/label"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Android-y" />
    android:id="@+id/input"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    
    

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13. ANDROID CHANGES…
    ALL. THE. TIME.
    

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14. ?
    

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15. CHANGES
    TRANSFORM.
    

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16. CHANGES
    KEEP US
    HONEST.
    

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17. CHANGES CAN
    HELP FIX
    FLAWS.
    

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18. CHANGES BRING
    THE NEW AND
    IMPROVED.
    

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19. …OR SUPPORT A
    WHOLE NEW
    LANGUAGE
    

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20. LIBRARIES/TOOLS/
    PATTERNS CHANGE…
    ALL. THE. TIME.
    

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21. ALWAYS
    SOMETHING
    NEW.
    

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22. IT CAN BE…
    OVERWHELMING
    

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23. DO YOU WANT ALLIGATORS?
    BECAUSE THAT IS HOW YOU GET ALLIGATORS.
    DON’T BE STAGNANT
    

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24. WHAT’S HERE AND
    WHAT’S AHEAD
    

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25. THANKS TO (JUST
    SOME OF) THE
    COOL KIDS
    BEN O.
    CHIU-KI C.
    CHRISTINA L.
    DAN L.
    JAKE W.
    JOHN R.
    KELLY S.
    KIRSTIN M.
    VISHNU R.
    

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26. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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27. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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28. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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29. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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30. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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31. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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32. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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33. PARTICIPATE.
    BUT YOU CAN
    LURK TOO.
    

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34. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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35. KEEPING UP
    WITH THE
    ANDROIDS
    

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36. “LET IT WASH OVER YOU.”
    

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37. TAKE NOTE
    FOR LATER
    

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38. TAKE NOTE
    FOR LATER
    

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39. TAKE NOTE
    FOR LATER
    

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40. SAVING IDEAS
    FOR WHEN YOU
    NEED THEM
    

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41. KNOWING THAT
    YOU NEED TO
    KNOW X
    

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42. JUST GO FOR IT.
    

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43. TEACH
    YOURSELF
    + TRY STUFF
    OUT.
    

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44. EXPERIMENT
    

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45. TEACH
    YOURSELF
    + TRY STUFF
    OUT.
    

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46. HAVE A TEST
    PROJECT
    

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47. HAVE A TEST
    PROJECT
    

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48. HAVE A SIDE
    PROJECT
    

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49. HAVE A SIDE
    PROJECT
    

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50. HAVE FUN.
    TRY SOMETHING
    DIFFERENT.
    

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51. GIVE A TALK
    

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52. KEEP UP
    AT WORK
    

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53. WHICH ISN’T
    ALWAYS EASY
    

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54. BUT MAYBE
    TRY…
    PROOF OF CONCEPT
    COEXISTENCE
    ISOLATION
    GREEN FIELD
    

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55. YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES
    A DROP AT A TIME
    

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56. IT WILL BE ROUGH
    FOR A WHILE.
    

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57. MY FIRST
    KOTLIN PR
    ACTUALLY, IT WAS AWESOME.
    ~1 comment per 6.5 lines
    

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58. GEEK OUT. CELEBRATE.
    

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60. BUT WHAT
    ABOUT THE
    COOL/NEW
    THING?!?
    

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61. GOING WITH THE FLOW
    ISN’T BEING PASSIVE
    

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62. BE OPEN. BE CURIOUS.
    BE CRITICAL. BE ANALYTICAL.
    

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63. SOMETIMES
    YOU FIT IN
    THE CUP.
    

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64. NOT SO MUCH.
    SOMETIMES…
    

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65. IT DEPENDS.
    

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66. SOMETIMES THERE’S
    A BIT OF LUCK.
    

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67. DON’T DRINK THE POISON
    

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68. DON’T DRINK
    THE POISON
    

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69. DON’T NARROW
    THE SOLUTION
    SPACE
    

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71. OKAY.
    HERE’S THE
    SECRET…
    

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72. EVERYONE FEELS BEHIND
    EVEN THE COOL KIDS.
    

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73. WE’RE ALL IN THIS
    TOGETHER
    

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74. THANK YOU!
    SPEAKERDECK.COM/QUEENCODEMONKEY
    YOUTUBE.COM/ANDROIDDIALOGS
    RANDOMLYTYPING.COM
    HUYEN TUE DAO
    @QUEENCODEMONKEY
    THANK YOU!
    SPEAKERDECK.COM/QUEENCODEMONKEY
    YOUTUBE.COM/ANDROIDDIALOGS
    RANDOMLYTYPING.COM
    HUYEN TUE DAO
    @QUEENCODEMONKEY
    

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75. REFERENCES
    75
    Adobe Donates Flex to Apache | PCWorld | pcworld.com/
    article/244060/adobe_donates_flex_to_apache.html
    Unit testing without Robolectric, Droidcon Berlin 2016 |
    slideshare.net/dpreussler/unit-testing-without-robolectric-
    droidcon-berlin-2016
    

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76. REFERENCES
    76
    Google Developer Groups | developers.google.com/groups
    Meetup | meetup.com
    Android Summit | androidsummit.org
    Droidcon | droidcon.com
    Devoxx | devoxx.com/
    GDG DevFest | developers.google.com/events/devfest/
    Mobile Era | mobileera.rocks
    

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77. REFERENCES
    77
    Training | Android Developers | developer.android.com/training/
    index.html
    Codelabs | Google Developers | codelabs.developers.google.com/
    Caster.IO | caster.io
    Android Training and Tutorials | lynda.com | lynda.com/Android-
    training-tutorials/947-0.html
    Android Development Tutorials | raywenderlich.com |
    raywenderlich.com/category/android
    Advent of Code | adventofcode.com
    

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78. REFERENCES
    78
    Android Architecture Blueprints | github.com/googlesamples/
    android-architecture
    Plaid | github.com/nickbutcher/plaid
    Moshi | github.com/square/moshi
    

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79. REFERENCES
    79
    Android Developers Blog | developers.android.com | android-
    developers.googleblog.com
    Android Weekly | androidweekly.net
    

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80. REFERENCES
    80
    Announcing Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET & Silverlight |
    blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rxteam/2009/11/17/announcing-reactive-extensions-
    rx-for-net-silverlight/
    MS Open Tech Open Sources Rx (Reactive Extensions) – a Cure for Asynchronous
    Data Streams in Cloud Programming |
    blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/interoperability/2012/11/06/ms-open-tech-open-
    sources-rx-reactive-extensions-a-cure-for-asynchronous-data-streams-in-
    cloud-programming/
    Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava | https://medium.com/netflix-
    techblog/reactive-programming-in-the-netflix-api-with-rxjava-7811c3a1496a
    

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