Leverage the best Android Open Source libraries out there. Sears.Israel - by Rom Shiri

1. Android:
From Code to Store
Rom Shiri

2. Agenda
‣ Introduction to Android Libraries
‣ Networking
‣ Image Loading
‣ Dependency Injection
‣ Event Bus
‣ Debugging
‣ What’s Next?

3. Where is my standard library?!

4. “If you find yourself doing something by yourself,
you’re probably doing it in the wrong way”
- Somebody at Google’s Android team

5. Networking
‣ The standard way:

7. Retrofit by Square
‣ Turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
‣ Using GSON as JSON parser
‣ Stupidly easy to use
http://square.github.io/retrofit/

8. Image Loading
‣ Images are not trivial:
‣ Memory consumption
‣ Network
‣ Main players:
‣ Picasso (Square)
‣ Glide
‣ Fresco (Facebook)
‣ UIImageLoader

9. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29363321/picasso-v-s-imageloader-v-s-fresco-vs-glide

10. Picasso by Square
‣ Lightweight
‣ Fluent API
http://square.github.io/picasso/

11. Dagger by Square & Google
‣ Dependency Injection library
‣ Adopted by Google (Dagger vs Guice)
‣ Dagger 2
‣ simple, traceable and performant
http://google.github.io/dagger/

12. ButterKnife by Jake Wharton
‣ View binding framework
‣ Less boilerplate code
With ButterKnife
with
without
http://jakewharton.github.io/butterknife/

13. Otto by Square
‣ An enhanced event bus with emphasis on
Android support
‣ Forked from Guava (Google’s Java Library)
http://square.github.io/otto/

14. Stetho by Facebook
‣ A debug bridge for Android applications via
Chrome Developer Tools
‣ Network Inspection
‣ View Hierarchy
‣ Database Inspection
‣ Javascript Console
http://facebook.github.io/stetho/

15. What’s Next?
‣ Check out Square Open Source
‣ square.github.io
‣ “Must have libraries” on GitHub:
‣ https://github.com/codepath/
android_guides/wiki/Must-Have-Libraries
‣ Mobile Device Lab Stash
‣ https://stash.sears.co.il/projects/MDL

16. Happy Android Developing!