February: Unit testing & Cutting edge network stack

In our first Meetup(yay!), you will learn how to create a state of the art network stack and how can you make unit testing easier with thoughtful architecture. After the talks, you can socialize with like-minded people while eating pizza and drinking beer. The meetup will take place at Prezi House of Ideas (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Nagymezo%2054-56%2C%2C%20Budapest), the doors will open at 18:30 the talks start at 19:00 and finish around 20:00. From then the socializing part starts.

Come and take part in the birth of Budapest’s Android community!

Talks:

Better network stack with 80% less codeby Alpar Gabos, Android TechLead at Prezi

Last year we rewrote our whole network stack. The old one used the long forgotten library RoboSpice, the java’s HTTP client, and many manually written model classes and lots of tests. It was a huge chunk of code and just grew enormously every time we added a new network call. Most of the code we had to write were boilerplate code and not useful business logic.

This talk will be about why we rewrote our network stack. How we ended up with a stack which is 80% less code than the previous one, more robust and widely supported. You will also get the complete blueprint so you can use it for your app right away.

Make Unit testing easy with thoughtful architectureby Károly Kiripolszky, Android developer at Mito

There's been a lot of talk about unit testing lately. This is partly because it's hard to do on Android by default. This talk will deal with unit testing in general (will not mention any tools, frameworks; only concepts), why it is not easy to do on our beloved platform and how to circumvent the problem by employing thoughtful architecture.