2019 Android Dev Summit Day 1

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

Here are my notes:

Android Keynote

Kotlin Certification code
I received this in a email later on.

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

Material Components

Same terminology to outline
Showed built-in Android Studio Emulator

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

What’s New in Android Studio

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

Processors
Move to gradle 3.5
AppliedChanges

Come in 4.0

Profiler for builds
Kotlin gradle
Progaurd files
@composable attribute
Emulator embedded in IDE
Layout Inspector
3D full stack
Click and Swipe Handlers
Material Clip icons
LiveTempalte setings
Log functions shows all parameter’s

WorkManager: Beyond the Basics

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.

Migrating to AndroidX: The Time Is Right

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.

Other Perks

I was able to try the two mobile applications I have developed professional on a Android Foldable phone a Chrome Notebook.

Android for Cars

20 Years working at Farm Credit Services of America

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.

2020 Spring UNO Coffee & Careers

In early May of 2020 I was contacted by Joe Hayes to be a guest on Coffee & Careers.

The focus would be careers in technology. A day in the life of developer, What are the different types of roles in the field? What is the needed or desired skill sets in technology. How a student can stand out and shine?

Here is a link to the YouTube video. If you use a podcast platform like Spotify. The video will show up on the Coffee & Career too.

On a final note. We did the video using Zoom technology. The one story not on video was our discussion on life. We talked because we are self quarantine working from home. How we are allowing others to see our personal life more. That we are seeing each families and of course why I am in a Sauna.

2020 Spring UNO Professional Sales Resume Reviews

This afternoon I attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha Professional Sales Resume Reviews. The College of Business Career Center was partnering with the Marketing level 3100 Professional Sale course taught by Ann Herman . The goal of the day was to provide students with resume critiques from employers.

I was part of multiple sessions were I was able to connect in the students in the classroom. I was placed at a table with a group. I went one by one through each person resume. I provided feedback about my professional career. I firmly believe the students appreciated the feedback.

2019 FALL UNO Advanced Systems Analysis and Design

In Early Fall of 2019 I reached out to Dr. George Royce wondering if there is a slot in September for a class room visit if possible.

The class Agile project management was canceled due to low number of students. I was offered to be a guest lecture on Agile Systems Analysis and Design.

After going back in forth via email and video conference calls. I agreed to speak about my approach to agile systems analysis and design works is done on my particular team at Farm Credit.

The official name of the class was Advanced Systems Analysis and Design. On October 8th starting at 10:30 AM in PKI room 260 I gave a presentation. I used the white board to discuss topics and concerns of systems being used on a daily basis.

The following day I received this email from Dr. Royce.

2019 Fall UNO ENTR 3710 ENTREPRENEURIAL FOUNDATIONS

On September 18th, 2019 I was able to two have two teammates talk to the 3710 Entrepreneurial class. This was a chance to highlight the internal Intrapreneurial program, but also give an overview of some of the other innovation activities that we do in the organization.

2019 Fall UNO SCMT 3500 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Before the 2019 CBA Career Fair we made a class room visit.

2019 FALL UNO MISSO Meeting

The Management Information Systems Student Organization (MISSO) is a student group at University of Nebraska-Omaha. MISSO has a general meeting once a month, usually featuring a guest speaker. This past Friday September 13th. Myself and Joni Stewart were the guest speakers at the September meeting. I also wanted this spot because of talking about Internships and Technology Works here event.

I had set up this visit in early August by emailing the Professor Dr. Paul Van Vliet.

Before

The MISSO group does a good job of advertising the meeting. About a month before the meeting I was asked for a topic. The topic I wanted to talk about was UX in my development process. Here is the abstract:

This month our guest speaker will be Anthony Carlson, a UNO graduate and lead application developer with Farm Credit Services of America. His software journey has been through various forms of service-oriented architecture for client and web applications. As a member of the first team at Farm Credit Services to use an agile methodology for software development, Anthony helped champion practices such as test-driven development and service-level testing. Currently, he is part of the Customer Solutions team where his focus is on iOS, Android, and responsive platforms.

Anthony’s talk is entitled

“How do I include UX in my development process?” How do we know if our software efforts are on the right track? Finding the answers to these questions doesn’t need to be scary, your users want to tell you everything you need to know to be successful. Anthony Carlson Lead Application Developer will explain how to build simple UX practices into any software development processes. Learn real world examples on how to effectively engage your customers and development team with UX basics, when to apply them and how to plan for them.

They take my topic and make a nice graphic to be shared on social media.

Day of Event

At the UNO IT Career Fair on Wednesday I took a selfie in front of the MISSO flier inside PKI. This was going to be

my social Media post.

I arrived right around 4:30 p.m. to set up.

I also want to make sure my presentation Would work. I also brought the following

Dartboards
Internship Fliers
Works Her Event card.
Business Cards
Presentation Pointer

I sponsor Pizza for the group which comes in under $100.00 The group doesn’t charge fees and helping out leaves a good impression of our company. Always remember to get vegetarian pizza.

Presentation

I got us rolling right at 5:00 p.m.

Joni started the talk with Internships and “Works Here” Video

I did a presentation on UX in the development process. The group asked good questions about the process.

Next Day

The next day we got a thank you email.

Another great event to build relationships with UNO.

2019 360iDev Conference Day 4

State of the Conference

“No one hates positive re-enforcement”

I thought I knew but I didn’t

“Success is a lousy teacher”

Book: “The cluetrain manifesto”

“Help other become who they are” People over profit

Financial transparency: The coolest thing I have ever seen at a conference.

Indie conference
Don’t’ do Breakfast
Lunch outside, it’s nice outside

Speaker Travel, speaker hotel room
$103, 063 to put on conference
Attendees
Sponsorships
Talked about how much money the conference made
The playlist is by attendees
Thanks to the Sponsors
Thanks to the speakers
Attendees are the ones that come, they should have a say in where the conference is held.
Volunteers (room monitors)
All in Ticket (not everyone wants it, but it is there)
Previous Years Banners (conference yearbook)

Using LLDB, Instruments, and Xcode to understand a codebase

Slides

Straying From the Happy Path: Taking Control of Errors in Swift

If you want to handle more error, then you have to make it easy.

BYOB: Build Your Own (Swift) Backend. Server-Side Swift beyond CloudKit

Server Side Swift
- Vapor
- Kitara
- Perfect
GraphQL
- Graphiti

Piles of Pictures: Process with Turi Create

Slides

2019 360iDev Conference Day 3

How to stay excited in a world that is falling apart

Looking Back
- Where we have changed people
- We are amazing people
It looked so easy to create a youtube channel
- Don’t fear Failure
Being a successful programmer
Life too is an iterative process
Enjoy their laughter
- Does it make a difference?Should stop arguing and focus on results
- It’s nice to be right. It’s better to be effective.
- What people get wrong about business?
  - Problem
  - Business
  - Profit
- Look for the helpers, then help then