Recent presentations and code
I've been quite busy in the past several months!
Talk: An Introduction to Groovy and Gradle
I had been using Gradle-based Android builds for a long time before actually bothering to try to understand what's going on in them. This talk will help get you started understanding your build files.
Since this was a live coding demo, there are no slides, but you can see my presentation notes here.
Talk: Android Dependencies You Can Depend On
This presentation is about libraries I commonly use and why I use them. There were no microphones so you might have to turn the volume way up to hear me.
Talk: Reactive Extensions: Beyond the Basics
I've seen quite a few "starting reactive extensions" talks, but few that go beyond the basics. This talk starts to fill the gap by talking about anything but the basics. It's a smorgasbord of topics that I've found useful to know when using RxJava.
Fragmented Podcast
You may have heard of the new Fragmented Podcast from Donn Felker and Kaushik Gopal.
I was invited to join them and talk about RxJava. We talked so much it ended up as two separate hour-long podcasts: Part 1, part 2.
(The podcast itself is excellent, so you should listen to more than just those two episodes!)
Code
Some public code I've written recently:
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victor - A Gradle plugin that converts SVGs into PNG resources that can be used in your Android app.
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android-svg-drawable-test - A small performance tester for SVG drawables vs. bitmaps. Used to verify that I wasn't off my rocker when writing victor. tl;dr - either is fine in most circumstances.
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android-subscription-leaks - A small project demonstrating how RxJava + Android can cause memory leaks (along with solutions).
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android-gfycat - This isn't a new project, but I've overhauled it to use RxJava in a far more effective manner. I've mentioned it as a sample RxJava project before - now it's something I think you should actually look at!