Malcolm Gladwell and Joe Rogan on the Resources Guru app platform

I think Malcolm Gladwell is a wonderful story teller and I loved this episode of the Joe Rogan show. Botth have an open alpha version Android app btw. on my 'The Resources Guru' media content aggregate platform that I am working on:

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.norakomi.resourcesapp.malcolm_gladwell

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.norakomi.resourcesapp.joe_rogan

What cross platform tool to use for the Resources Guru platform? React Native / Kotlin Native?

For future reference:

I am contemplating using React Native for future websites and cross platform development of The Resources Guru platform that currently is in open alpha development stage solely on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Norakomi+App+Development

Facebook put out an interesting article a while ago on the why and how's of React Native

https://engineering.fb.com/android/react-native-bringing-modern-web-techniques-to-mobile/

But is React Native still a good choice theses days?:
https://dev.to/jessicabennett/react-native-still-a-profitable-choice-in-2019-5km

Additional blog from Discord on their React Native usage:
https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-achieves-native-ios-performance-with-react-native-390c84dcd502

As a Android Developer I also looked into Kotlin Native but that doesn't really seem to be production ready yet:

https://itnext.io/why-the-kotlin-native-memory-model-cannot-hold-ae1631d80cf6

Google Clean Code Talks

Google Clean Code Talks playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL693EFD059797C21E

Android Clean Architecture references: videos & blogs

Here are some interesting post and vids on Clean Architecture in Android:

Vids:

Blogs:
https://proandroiddev.com/a-guided-tour-inside-a-clean-architecture-code-base-48bb5cc9fc97

Excellent blogpost on using clean architecture in Android

https://proandroiddev.com/a-guided-tour-inside-a-clean-architecture-code-base-48bb5cc9fc97

Android: Repository Pattern Retrofit 2 and RxJava 2 (and Room..)

I've written a post on Medium about adding offline functionaity using RxJava

https://medium.com/@rikvanv/android-repository-pattern-using-room-retrofit2-and-rxjava2-b48aedd173c

Lottie: animation library to import Adobe After Effect animation for Android & iOS

Lottie looks like a very promising open source animation tool created by AirBnb to implement Adobe After Effect animation into your Android/iOS/ReactNative app.

- https://airbnb.design/lottie/

- https://medium.com/fueled-android/lottie-android-pie-for-animation-lovers-cd9d608fa039

- https://medium.com/prolific-interactive/the-design-guide-to-winning-developers-hearts-part-1-use-lottie-82545abfb06e

Repository (pattern) usage in Android with RxJava & the New York Times' Store library

There is a great article out there from The Big Nerd Ranch on using the repository pattern /w RxJava:
https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/the-rxjava-repository-pattern/

Still, if you are trying to implement the repository patter in your own project for a first time it's a lot to wrap your head around. In that case, maybe a very interesting library to take a look at is NYTimes' Store which will make implementing caching, persistant storage and reactive data loading a lot easier for you:

Github:
https://github.com/NYTimes/Store

Advanced RxJava2 for Android

These are two excellent video's for those who want to dig deeper into RxJava on Android.
Couple of interesting patterns are discussed in:

And Jake Wharton talks in depth on handling states with Rx:

Android Architecture Components: Life cycle aware components, LiveData, LifecycleFragments/Activitie, Room and google's guide to app architecture

Some great new components introduced in this Google IO talk:

Also check out github for code samples:
https://github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture-components
And google's guide to app architecture:
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/guide.html

Android studio 3.0 coming! With 'default' Kotlin support, lambda support without need for Jack or retrolambda and more...

AI will be taking over marketing?

Interesting article on how a marketing agency got replaced by AI. Saving this for future reference:
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/why-cosabella-replaced-its-agency-ai-will-go-back-humans/1427323#FIvw6RCwHEJjje2e.01

https://albert.ai/

Interesting articles for RxJava / RxBinding in Android

For future reference. These are two interesting articles:

https://overrideandroid.blogspot.co.id/2017/03/reactive-programming-with-rxbinding.html

https://realm.io/news/donn-felker-reactive-android-ui-programming-with-rxbinding/

Foursquare launches Pilgrim SDK to let developers leverage location

saved for future reading.
This might be an interesting sdk to look into:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/foursquare-launches-pilgrim-sdk-to-let-developers-leverage-location/

Android data binding and MVVM

I ran into a great lecture on Data Binding from Big Nerd Ranch's Bill Phillips :
You can find the video on youtube or on the Realm site where you can go ful screen on the code section of the video:
https://realm.io/news/360andev-bill-phillips-data-binding/?utm_source=android-list&utm_medium=email&utm_content=android-content

Unfortunately Bill didn't have much time to talk about MVVM, but there is a blog post on bignerdranch.com: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/shades-of-mvvm/

If you want to know more about data binding and haven't seen Google I/O 2016's 'advanced databinding' session make sure you do:

Finding and Fixing memory leaks on Andoid with the stand alone Eclipse Memory Analyser Tool (MAT)

* http://riggaroo.co.za/fixing-memory-leaks-in-android-outofmemoryerror/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUwnKZR6cw
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24547555/how-to-analyze-memory-using-android-studio

Download MAT for free:
http://www.eclipse.org/mat/

Is my app currently in the foreground or the background?

Is my app currently in the foreground or the background?:
http://steveliles.github.io/is_my_android_app_currently_foreground_or_background.html

A small leak will sink a great ship:

https://corner.squareup.com/2015/08/a-small-leak.html

Droidcon NYC 2015: What’s New in Android UI Engineering

What’s New in Android UI Engineering in sound, video & images:

https://soundcloud.com/designnotes/design-notes-with-roman-nurik

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNfCpwn9k-8vwAroqXaBu4fkYknSKp9G_ls7ovBuJAoTTO-ghso_w9eVdmZkj0Gcg?key=NUc2YURPaktqSzFSNER3VER5NEFzbm9TcnFlX053

More by Roman Nurik:

Android: Which Networking Library to use?

I was browsing around trying to figure out what Library to use for downloading images and Json data and ran into a couple of interesting post.

Comparing a bunch of Libraries like Volley, Picasso, Fresco:
* https://packetzoom.com/blog/which-android-http-library-to-use.html
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16902716/comparison-of-android-networking-libraries-okhttp-retrofit-volley
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29363321/picasso-v-s-imageloader-v-s-fresco-vs-glide

Introduction to Fresco: A new Image library for Android
https://code.facebook.com/posts/366199913563917

Introduction to Glide, Image Loader Library for Android, recommended by Google:
http://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/get-to-know-glide-recommended-by-google/en

Volley Library:
If you look on github for most popular mirrors of the VolleyLibrary you'll find the DWorkS VolleyPlus and the McXiaoke of which the first one has some added functionality like additional Request types and image caching.

You can read more about them at:
* https://github.com/mcxiaoke/android-volley
* https://github.com/DWorkS/VolleyPlus