Backend to Android Native development

Talk sharing first hand experience of transitioning to Android as a backend developer.

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1. ‡ .NET to Android Native development 1 Himanshu Walia (@waliahimanshu)
2. ‡ 2 Why change ?
3. ‡ 3 What we already know ?
4. ‡ 4 Baffling
5. ‡ Software fragmentation 5
6. ‡ 6 Hardware fragmentation
7. ‡ Material Design and Animations 7
8. ‡ 8
9. ‡ Challengs • Slow build times. • Testing – Instrumentation. • Android Architecture. • Java verboseness no λ, no LINQ what? • Code style adaption. • Lot of wrong answers on Stack Overflow (where is Jon Skeet?) 9
10. ‡ Thrilling 10
11. ‡ Building for Billions 11 • Mobile – Wear – TV – Auto – IOT • Android GO • Mobile Mindset Thrilling
12. ‡ Community • Open source libraries – Retrofit – Butterknife – Leak Canary – Dagger2 – EventBus – RxJava – Picasso • Meetup / Droidon • Google IO • Podcasts ( Fragmented) 12 Thrilling
13. ‡ 13 https://github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture Thrilling Community
14. ‡ 14 Quick Feedback
15. ‡ 15 Quick Feedback
16. ‡ 16
17. ‡ JetBrains 17
18. ‡ Myths • OS differences (Support Library) • Test on each and every devices. • Tooling • 100% native • Slow – Gradle, Instant Run and Physical device. 18
19. ‡ 19 • Resources • Culture of adaptability • Help - empathy - mentor • Community better
20. ‡ Thanks 20