Keynote talk: What all these years of Android Development have taught me the hard way
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This is just my humble effort to share insights and learnings from my career and things I wish I would have known back in the day. There will be advice, rant, anecdotes, things which worked for me and how devs can step up their game.
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- 1. What all these years of Android Development have taught me the hard way Wahib-Ul-Haq @wahibhaq http://wahibhaq.com #AndroidDevFest A Journey from Eclair to Rasgulla 31.03.2018 WeCreate, Islamabad
- 2. Eclair - 2009 Jelly Bean - 2013 Lollipop - 2015 Oreo - 2017 P - 2018
- 4. You Are What You Code!
- 5. Utilize existing libs but choose wisely and do regular audits
- 6. Get more familiar with the Android framework internals
- 7. Make a habit of reading others’ code
- 8. Care about writing “Optimized” code
- 9. Don’t Neglect *30% Of Your Job
- 10. Let go of “I am just a developer” mindset
- 11. Take interest in more than just the coding part of an app
- 12. Try to learn about User Experience (UX) Design
- 13. When needed, fight for your users
- 14. Step Up Your Game
- 15. For the love of Uncle Bob, Architect your app properly (MVP, MVI, MVVM, Arch, Redux etc.)
- 16. Learn Kotlin or you’ll be extinct
- 17. Write Tests because you are not Chuck Norris
- 18. Embrace the Functional and Reactive programming approach
- 21. Get involved in Automated Release Mechanism
- 22. Always have a playground/side project in hand
- 23. Understand how iOS ecosystem works and befriend iOS devs
- 25. Go where the Big problems are
- 26. Let go of cargo cult programming style
- 27. Work in a team where you find yourself as the worst programmer
- 28. Life is too short to tolerate bad bosses and team leads
- 30. Imposter Syndrome is real
- 31. Try to get over the Fear Of Missing Out (FoMo)
- 32. The bottom line is to get the job done as best you can
- 33. Recommended Books The Passionate Programmer The Clean Coder The Pragmatic Programmer, from journeyman to master Don't Make Me Think, Revisited Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- 35. Thank You! Feel free to ping me @wahibhaq or wahib.tech@gmail.com