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When business meets software...

When business meets software...

I'm not a fan of Fragments when it comes to navigation either, but there are other solutions as well (see Conductor). But there are limitations to using a new Activity for each scr…

Fragments are one option. Another is just to use regular Views. There are libraries to help you with this such as Conductor. As for Activities, they are usually overkill for most s…

I'm actually surprised they're relying on Activities for the views in the app. I'm not familiar with how the app works, but this is typically an out-dated approach. Activities shou…

Not LA though!

I would say most of it IS appropriate. A lot of the advice is good for Java development in general, regardless of platform. Enums are one area that is hotly debated in the Android …

Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons

I live and work in Pasadena with a metro stop across the street from my apartment. Your commute was definitely a tough one! A big issue I've noticed is that a lot of people work in…

I moved to Los Angeles about four months ago and was surprised how little I drive. Uber and Lyft are insanely cheap here when using the pool/line options. I've taken 10 mile trips …

I moved to Los Angeles about four months ago and was surprised how little I drive. Uber and Lyft are insanely cheap here when using the pool/line options. I've taken 10 mile trips …

Any of the popular Square libraries are great examples, https://github.com/square .

Retrofit is truly an amazing library. With little more than an interface declaration, you are able to make network calls and have the the requests/responses automatically (de)seria…

"Programming Languages" - https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang "Compilers" - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers

Isn't Square attempting to move into this space?

I've implemented this toy compiler (minus JIT) in Java, following the tutorial on the LLVM website (which uses C). After browsing through the Haskell code, it is incredible how muc…