Womandroid Tech Talks

Womandroid is organizing the first Tech Talk of the year! Join us for an evening with speakers talking about technical topics that will surely grab your interest. Save the date!

17.30 - 18.00 Doors open, food and drinks served, networking

18.00 - 18.30 Custom View: Friend or Enemy? by Olga Kuzmina, Android developer at Truecaller.

About the speakers: Olga is currently living in Sweden, originally from Russia. She participated in development and supported various Android apps for several major companies such as Tinkoff Bank, Revel Systems.
Olga fell in love with Android 6 years ago, she loves writing elegant and concise code using Kotlin, prefers default colour scheme with white background in Android Studio.

Abstract:
The best practice will be shared about how to create custom view based on Truecaller experience. It will be shown real cases where creation of custom view is reasonable and how to avoid cases when maintenance could be painful and expensive. The goal of presentation is find out an answer to the question: Is custom view our friend or enemy?

18.40 - 19.10 Kotlin Coroutines on Android: How to say goodbye to threading and callback hell by Sevile Guler

About the speaker: Sevile is a Senior Consultant at Netlight - Helping companies to provide high-quality mobile services to their users. Her strong competence includes Android development with Kotlin and Java, as well as continuous integration and continuous delivery for mobile.

Abstract: Coroutines is full of possibilities and offers new ways of working with background tasks, resulting in more simple, elegant and clean code. In this event we will talk about coroutines and do live coding with the focus of understanding how to get rid of threads and callback patterns. Get ready to be amazed with the new world of clean coding that coroutines opens up to everyone.

19.40 - 21.30 After Work/Mingle Time

The event is open for women, non-binary and transgender