October Meetup: FullSail with Async Kotlin and Dagger 2 Lessons Learned

Welcome to another round of Android talks. This event will be hosted at FullSail. In this meetup, we will explore async programming with Kotlin and lessons learned about Dagger 2. As always, food and network opportunities will be available.

We would like to extend our gratitude to our sponsor, https://orlandodevs.com/, and FullSail for providing us with a venue.

Talks

Doing Async with Kotlin
Presented by Ryan Fonzi

From network calls to database queries to UI events, most of what we do on our phones is asynchronous in nature. Unfortunately, asynchronous programming isn't all that easy. Kotlin has recently provided some language constructs and libraries dedicated to tackling async, specifically coroutines and Flow. In this talk, we'll be seeing how we can leverage Kotlin to perform asynchronous operations in a way that's simple to reason about.

Ryan is an Android developer at Omicron. He enjoys digging into the bleeding edge of architectures and libraries.

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Dagger 2, 2 Years Later
Presented by Matt Dupree

A few years ago, we started using Dagger 2 in our applications. We saw some quick wins and were able to do some neat things like mock mode for testing and better support our white-labelling process. However, as time went on, several members of our team developed an aversion to working on the Dagger code, and I must admit that even I occasionally found it frustrating to work with.

I want to say a little about why folks were frustrated and how I think we might have avoided that frustration. I still think using Dagger is a good idea, but there are some things I might have differently in how we adopted Dagger if we were starting today.

This talk expands on a blog post I wrote (featured in Android Weekly): https://www.philosophicalhacker.com/post/dagger-2-years-later/

Lead Android Developer @ UniKey

I'm a wannabe philosophy professor turned wannabe tech entrepreneur living in Orlando, FL.

I've spent most of my professional career writing android code, but I've also written quite a bit of javascript (node, react native, react, I co-ran react orlando for a couple years) and a little bit of python, go, and ruby. I love writing and speaking about what I've learned. (Full list of android posts are here and talks are here)

Now, I'm the Android lead at UniKey. We're building a platform that makes it easy for access control companies and lock manufacturers to create smart locks/readers that you can open with your phone instead of a key or a card or a fob or…

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Itinerary
6:30 Doors Open
7:15 Talks
8:45 Wrap Up