Life Without Fragments (with Eugenio Marletti)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1HRiCaAP4

What is wrong with Fragments as they are implemented right now? You hear a lot of rage around bugs, issues, and plain bad/obscure APIs. But what alternatives are out there?
Most of the time, Fragments are used as custom Views. But that’s overkill for Fragments, and it’s not what they’re meant for, either: they can do way more than that (and probably shouldn’t). The talk will run through the architectural choices that we found out helped us create great apps without getting lost in Fragment hell. Because #fragmentsmatter, but not more than… [dramatic music mounts to climax, screen fades to black. "TO BE CONTINUED" appears on screen]

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Source keynote and PDF export available here: http://bit.ly/life-without-sources

Transcript

1. Sebastiano Poggi
   @seebrock3r
   Novoda, Android GDE
   &
   Eugenio Marletti
   @workingkills
   Clue
   without
   life
   fragments
   

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2. *
   WARNING
   may contain traces of
   personal opinions and
   surprisingly little hate
   

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3. wrong
   What’s
   with
   Fragments
   

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4. Attila
   some poor guy
   

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5. Attila
   some poor guy
   

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6. FragmentManager
   YOU
   

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7. Fragment
   Manager
   * schizophrenia
   * unpredictable behaviour
   

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8. XML
   vs
   CODE
   

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9. XML
   vs
   CODE
   

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10. retained
    fragments
    

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11. transactions
    are async
    executePendingTransactions *
    

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12. state
    of chaos
    tech debt or crash: pick one *
    commitAllowingStateLoss *
    

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13. BUGS
    

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16. “Advocating Against Android Fragments”
    

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17. Nobody
    Fragments
    understands
    not a view, not a controller *
    

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18. not a view, not a controller *
    Balto
    Nobody
    Fragments
    understands
    

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19. Nobody
    understands
    Fragments
    Balto
    not a view, not a controller *
    also not a context *
    modular UI *
    lifecycle *
    

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20. CC BY-SA 4.0 by Steve Pomeroy
    

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21. CC BY-SA 4.0 by Steve Pomeroy
    

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22. CC BY-SA 4.0 by Steve Pomeroy
    

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23. they can *
    Google says so *
    all the “free” stuff *
    don’t fully understand *
    (mis)use
    Why do
    people still
    Fragments
    

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24. Fragments
    are not for:
    business logic *
    replacing views *
    persisting data *
    

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25. Fragments
    are evolving
    * ¯\_(ϑ)_/¯
    * attach to any Context
    

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26. Fragments
    are evolving
    * lots of fixes and less WTFs
    * commitNow
    

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27. Fragments
    are evolving
    * lots of fixes and less WTFs
    * commitNow
    Thanks Adam!
    (sorry Adam)
    

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28. Partial alternatives
    pyricau/fragnums *
    weefbellington/screenplay *
    lyft/scoop *
    bluelinelabs/conductor *
    doridori/pilot *
    soundcloud/lightcycle *
    square/flow + /mortar *
    * FRAGNUMS
    * Screenplay
    * Scoop
    * Conductor
    * Pilot
    * LightCycle
    * Flow + Mortar
    to Fragments
    

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29. ?
    custom views *
    clean architecture *
    SOLID *
    core vs mobile *
    write tests *
    unidirectional flow? *
    How are we
    dealing
    without
    Fragments
    

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30. Relax,
    not using Fragments is OK *
    using Fragments is… also OK *
    be a professional *
    use the Support Library *
    pray *
    pray a lot *
    we are
    not your
    supervisor
    

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31. Bunch
    o’
    Advocating Against Android Fragments *
    Android Forestry *
    Offline Application Architecture *
    Android Fragment & Activity Lifecycle *
    Let it flow *
    * goo.gl/VDMhs0
    * goo.gl/GN0rmP
    * goo.gl/P2ROcA
    * goo.gl/K4nThH
    * goo.gl/LNije5
    links
    

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32. A
    &
    Q
    (no pressure)
    

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33. Thank
    you
    

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34. Android Pro >> Novoda
    Google Developer Expert
    @seebrock3r
    Clue << Android Lead
    loves Tequila
    @workingkills
    we’re hiring
    Poggi
    Sebastiano
    MARLETTI
    EUGENIO
    bit.ly/life-without-fragments
    

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