On March 4th 2021 I attended the UNO CBA Scholars development panel along with these other companies such as Fiserv, Farm Credit Services of America, Northwestern Mutual.
After a short introduction on what my role was at FCSA. I was placed in virtual breakout rooms where students could ask questions.
The 2021 Spring UNO All Majors Career Fair was held on February 17, 2021 from 11 A.M. – 3 P.M. CST | Virtua. it was hosted by the Academic & Career Development Center (ACDC), this fair will connect employers to students from all colleges and majors.
On Monday, January 25 from 10am to Noon I attended the UNO’s College of Business Administration (CBA) focus group meeting. This meeting was to evaluate the needs your ideas and perspectives CBA Employer Partners.
Through out the focus groups questions were asked. By participate in this strategic planning process. The results of these focus group meetings will guide CBA leadership as we build on our strengths and prioritize our strategic initiatives.
For the past year I have been reaching out to individuals in technology leadership positions. For someone like myself to get a leadership position. I need to interview individuals that have a role which I might inspire to have one day.
What challenges or opportunities do you see with alignment with Architecture and Solution roles.
Hunger to learn, gain experience relationships, pulled into facilitation, cross function team relationship, taking off job interview, never know, deeply caring about people, thank,
Get a high from this, what makes you have it. Make people feel better and see potential.
Find joy
I attended https://www.meetup.com/LearnSwiftOmaha on Kotlin Multiplatform on iOS. The purpose of the discussion was to talk about how to interact with KMP on iOS and the current state of KMP on iOS. Here is the link to the https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/multiplatform.html
There was a discussion on what this really is in regards to Android and iOS. A sample was created to show the project in Android Studio that builds the plumbing to work on different devices.
The 2020 FALL UNO : All Majors Career & Internship Fair (Virtual October Fair) was held on Thursday, October 8th 2020, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CDT.
This was the second virtual career fair the UNO Ambassadors attended.
The ambassadors reached out to the 2021 Business Technology Internship Leaders to a have a group session.
Reached out to Professors and student groups. We asked to email members and know we are doing internships.
Reached out to past students and anyone who rsvp on handshake. This was using past email from the 2020 Spring Career Fair.
1 on 1 Sessions
1 on 1 Sessions are scheduled in handshake by students. 1 on 1 sessions 10 minutes to have a conversation. I felt these sessions went faster than if we were chatting in person. I encouraged each to look at all company and find their passion.
Three pieces of advice to each student
Here are links I shared.
https://www.fcsamerica.com/careers
I let each student know if I can help them in any way I will.
Started with FCSAmerica introductions
Asked students to introduce
Joni talked who is FCSAmerica is?
Shelly talked about 2021 Team
· 8 team members
· 4 on software and 4 on Data Centric
· Desire to learn
· Collaboration
· Relationships
Questions:
What Technology will be used?
What we are looking for?
We didn’t have anyone show up but the Director of CBA Laura s. did show up. She talked about how overwhelmed students are right now. Talked about how all employers are seeing different trends of engagement. Some are targeting students in handshake to giving employment opportunities in the newsletter.
The Scholars Academy is a competitive cohort-based program that provides leadership training, select classes, international travel, and scholarships to promising and high-achieving business students at UNO. Students are selected their senior year of high school and spend four years in the program. As part of the Academy, a Scholars is matched with a business professional who mentors them for an academic year. The commitment from the mentor is to meet with the Scholars three times each semester, so six times a year (September through April).
On Friday September 11th , 2020 from 12pm – 1pm (CDT) I was invited to the 2020 UNO Scholar Academy Mentor meeting. This is my second year being a mentor to a College of Business Administration Scholar student.
This was a virtual session with all mentors.
The session started with putting mentors in break out rooms.
This is the 5th year of the program and it keeps adding more.
Your mentee(s) will be reaching out via email by September 18 to introduce themselves and set up the first meeting; they will CC me on the initial email but I do not need to be included after that.
Schedule Tips for Covid-19
The session end with a round table of past mentors talking about their experiences.
The day started with checking out the codelabs.
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/
Managing Companion Devices
What’s New in C++/Native Support in Android Studio
Advanced Haptics: The When, What, and How of New Haptic APIs
Adopt Wide Color Gamut
Turning the Page: Migrating to ViewPager2
Platform Android Studio and Tooling
Jon Markoff, Nicole Borrelli
Strategies for data encryption on Android using Jetpack Security. The key takeaways include: learn to encrypt data safely on device and use the AndroidKeyStore.
Outline the challenges with data-at-rest encryption.
Best practices for data encryption and key management.
Deep dive into why and how Jetpack Security library was built.
Jetpack security Library
Hardware backed means it runs a separate memory space.
BiometricPrompt
Manuel Vivo, Daniel Santiago Rivera
Dagger has become the recommended way to do Dependency Injection on Android. However, there are many ways to use Dagger! Come hear why we recommend Dagger, the best practices including recommended setup in multi-module projects, and what plans we have to improve Dagger in Android so that you can create a solid, extensible solution for managing dependencies in your app that scales to large projects.
How The Android Team Makes Widgets Accessible
Shailen Tuli, Qasid Sadiq, Lyla Fujiwara
In this intermediate level talk, we cover accessibility using real world examples. You’ll find out about accessibility in framework and androidX code, and learn about support for accessibility in Android widgets. Along the way, you’ll discover good patterns that can make your UIs shine for accessibility/
Accessibility Service
Talkback
ViewPager : Flip through
Logical Direction vs Direction
Testing for accessibility
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/ads19/
End to end Tests
Integration Tests
Unit Tests
David Herman, Justin Nieto
Level up your debugging skills! We all spend so much time in the debugger, and this session teaches you about some of the powerful debugging features available in Android Studio. This talk should appeal to all, from beginners to experts and everybody in between. No matter your level, you’ll take away something to help you chase bugs more effectively using Android Studio.
Murat Yener, Nicole Borrelli, Wenbo Zhu
Kotlin is awesome and you want to write all your code in it, but what about the thousands of lines of code already written in the Java programming language? Or, maybe you have a library or project that is written in Java and already has been used in so many Kotlin or Java projects.
In this talk, we will look at the best practices for writing Kotlin and Java code that works so seamlessly from the other that the only way to what language it is written in is to look at the source code.
Leland Richardson
This session covers the benefits of a declarative reactive UI system like Jetpack Compose and how it applies to real problems that Android developers have today. Additionally, this talk expands on the programming model of Jetpack Compose and some of its implementation details that help you understand how Compose works.
Sara N-Marandi, Philip Moltmann
Permissions provide the means for apps to communicate to their users why they need access to the user’s private data. In Android, we want to provide users control and transparency over their data, and have made a number of changes in Android 10 that bring greater restrictions to what data apps can access. We will review the changes in Android 10 and introduce new concepts we have been working on for future releases.
Only 18% of users allow every permission on their device.
Grant a specific feature that requires this permission.
Users share less.
Request the minimum permissions that a feature needs.
Request permissions in context for the use case.
Permissions by libraries
Minimize use of location, especially background location.
Coroutines simplify the way we do async programming on Android. However, testing async code has never been an easy task. In this talk, we show you how to master test asynchronicity with coroutines to get that precious green check ✔️. Which questions do you have to ask yourself before writing a line of test code? How can you test coroutines that use Dispatchers.Main? What if you want to control the timing of your events? Why shouldn’t you use Dispatchers.Unconfined? Come and learn how to test coroutines like a pro.
Android UI Coroutines First
Updated Documentation coming
Always inject dispatchers
Fast, Reliable, isolated
Back in October, I attend the https://developer.android.com/dev-summit in Sunnyvale, California.
The conference was at Google Cloud where they give Live Demo’s, Android Previews in code labs, and stream everything on Youtube.
https://developer.android.com/dev-summit/schedule/day1
What’s New in Jetpack Compose
Adam Powell, Clara Bayarri, Romain Guy
Jetpack Compose was announced at Google I/O and the team has been hard at work ever since. This talk introduces Compose to new audiences, including what the project is and how it is taking shape. The talk also updates people who already know about Jetpack Compose, including how the project has evolved.
Kotlin First
Compose
@composable Functions
Built in Components
DATA Flow
Event Handlers don’t leak mutability.
Event Handlers
flow down.
Composable code is Dense?
Statement Management over time
Stay away from overloads
Standardize on Coroutines
Type Safety is Nice
Layering is a pretty great idea
What’s New with CameraX
Caren Chang, Xi Zhang
Learn what is new with CameraX since its alpha launch at Google I/O this year, and learn from teams at Google that have been using CameraX in their apps.
December 2019
Tor Norbye, Jamal Eason
In this session, we provide updates and demos on new developments and features in Android Studio and how the tools can integrate into your app development workflow.
Builds Speeds
Come in 4.0
Rahul Ravikumar, Sumir Kataria
Learn more about WorkManager, the Jetpack library for background processing. This talk introduces intermediate and advanced concepts to address common questions, gotchas, and issues you might see when you deploy to a large ecosystem of users and devices.
Nick Anthony, Tiem Song
Let’s take a deep dive into the reality of migrating to AndroidX! This talk provides the rationale to migrate soon, sets expectations appropriately, and recommends a process for executing the migration as smoothly as possible.
Upgrade to support library 28
Enable Jetifier
Updated dependencies
Use Studio to Migrate to AndroidX.
BashScript
Dan Lew on Github
Alpha vs. Stable
Google Play Billing: The “Purchase Anywhere” Paradigm Shift
Oscar Rodriguez
In the past few years, we have introduced new features into Google Play, that enable users to discover and purchase items and subscriptions in many new ways, from inside and outside the app.
Developers who have adopted these changes in their apps have seen improvements in user experience, and with it, substantial growth in revenue. However, integrating these features into an app or game requires a fundamental change in which you think about how purchases are made and consumed.
This session takes a deep dive into designing for Purchase Anywhere. We will talk about promotions, subscribe-and-install, cash purchases and pending transactions, and remote purchase approvals. All app and game developers using Google Play Billing are welcome to attend.
Subscriptions: RTDN
Create a Promo Code
Purchases are done outside app
Gift Cards
Coming Cash purchases
AIDL is deprecated.
I was able to try the two mobile applications I have developed professional on a Android Foldable phone a Chrome Notebook.
Today May 15, is the day of achieving 20 years of employment with Farm Credit Services of America. I feel I have built an impressive legacy of service over those 20 years.
There is no doubt, I have witnessed and been a part of many changes. I have many stories and experiences I can share over that time.
Here is a picture of the First Application Development Team at Farm Credit Services of America. This was taken on Friday May 19th of my first week of work outside of Cascio’s Steak House. I was also on my first team outing.
