Krakdroid 2013

At the beginning of the December I had an opportunity to gave a talk on a Krakdroid conference. The organizers outdid themselves this year, the venue, other speakers and the overall event atmosphere was amazing. Definitely a place to be at if you're in Krakow at the end of the year.

This year I talked about the offline mode in Android apps. The talk was 30% sales pitch, 10% shameless plug and 60% describing the pitfalls one can fall into when implementing offline mode. I'm going to describe two major problems with offline mode in details on my blog and here are the slides:

Protip on giving a public speech - take a sip of water every 2-3 slides, especially if you're not feeling well and you have a sore throat.

I got an atrocious headache in the afternoon and went home, so I didn't see all the talks, but I've seen the rare thing - a succesful live coding - by +Wojtek Erbetowski who presented the RoboSpock testing framework and incrementally turned a meh-Java code into concise Groove goodness. +Maciej Górski did the maps framework overview, and although he's the author of excellent Android Maps Extensions he managed to be surprisingly objective. The first talk by +Wojtek Kaliciński triggered an internal discussion and Base about reducing the support for old Android versions. It won't happen overnight, but at least we've moved from the dangerous "c'mon, it's not that hard to support Froyo" mindtrack. I'll definitely write more about this.

To summarise, it was a great event. I've learned a lot, I've met some interesting people and I gave another talk, which completes one of the goals I set myself up for 2013. Good stuff.

Mobilization 2013

I gave the talk at the Mobilization 2013 conference this weekend. I have presented few libraries created at Base CRM to make the data model maintainable. Here are the slides:


Besides giving the talk, I have attended few other very interesting talks: +Wojtek Erbetowski has shown the way they test Android apps at Polidea using RoboSpock; +Mateusz Grzechociński introduced Android devs to new build system and shared an awesome gradle protip: use --daemon command line parameter to shave off few seconds from gradle startup. +Mateusz Herych described the Dagger basics and warned about few pitfalls. Mieszko Lassota described some UI blunders not only from the programming world. Finally, Krzysztof Kocel and Paweł Urban summarised the security pitfalls.

All in all, this years Mobilization conference was a great place to be at. See you there next year!