We all aspire to be more , be better but very often we avoid the long journey to the top, today we have an exception. Vinay Gaba, shares his journey from the outskirts of mumbai to the premier product based companies ( spotify, snapchat ) and currently being a team lead at Air Bnb to being an Android GDE. In part 1 of the discussion , vinay shares his journey from the start through the lens of android, how android evolved and how he did the same with it From being the organizer and lone attendee of the android seminar, to coming to usa and his struggle there and how android kept him afloat, vi ..read more

The mobile app development world is changing , it's embracing declarative programming from the Web Develoment world with open arms. Jetpack Compose is the new way of writing UI in Android In this episode, we deep dive into the same to understand what it is what happens behind the hood , what are the best practices to keep in mind when migrating to the same. About the author: Rivu is an Android GDE for Kotlin, an SDE 4 android at Paytm Insider a regular speaker, and a published author you can get his books from Kotlin Website itself ..read more

World is struggling, its struggling a lot currently with the global pandemic disrupting the lives and health of people, and with the onset of disease innovative tech solutions were needed with prevention being the only cure till date for covid-19 social distancing was the best defence system we have for people who are not yet exposed to covid but for people who unfortunately were exposed to covid, contact tracing was the need of the hour along with lockdowns. India as country went into lockdown for the first time on 25th March 2020, On 2 April 2020, the Gov of india released the Aarogya Setu a ..read more

Code quality has always been a central theme in life of a software developer,  Linting is one of the easiest way to maintain some sanity over the code base. Out of the box linters that Android Studio provide gives us the power to analyse the source code to flag programming errors , bugs, stylistic errors. In this episode we host Hitanshu Dhawan from UrbanCompany who deep dives into the same ..read more

Android Studio came out in 2013, and quickly became the goto IDE for Android Development, We also said hello to new set of features like file templates, 3rd party integrations and best of all plugins. We all have used them, often abused then, but we never understood them In this new episode of Androidiots podcast we have Tushar Aeron from UrbanCompany who has spent some time working with Android Studio Plugins to walk us through the basic anatomy of it. Have a listen. We also have a new co host in Vivek Singh Say Hi to him at : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsingh1011/ We would also like to than ..read more

Android Platform has come way since its launch from Cupcake to Pie we had lots of deserts, product features like notification centre, material design, dark theme, capabilities like Google Assistant,Video Casting, Wireless charging etc. But like any good software system the core always remains intact, so today we try to answer how the System designers went about designing android system, what are the design considerations that they have to keep in mind? How the system treats/interacts with the apps that we developers make? We deep dive into entire android process lifecycle with Deepak Garg and ..read more

We are all software developers and we love to code, don't we? And ofcourse, Kotlin is our favourite language. Don't you wish you could write every system in Kotlin. Well its no news, that the Kotlin makers are actually making it true. We have discussed it before in our previous episode about Kotlin/Multiplatform and in this episode we discuss how to get started with Kotlin as a BackEnd language with Matt Thornfield.  Matt is the author of the book Building Spring Boot Applications with the Kotlin Programming Language distributed by Manning Publications and also has a course on with same name ..read more

Zomato is an Indian restaurant search and discovery service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It currently operates in 24 countries with more then 50 million downloads of its Android app. With such scale requires the app to be dynamic enough to support various types of restaurants, various types of cuisines in various location, hence entire app needs to be developed at scale and able to be served in all the possible forms. And we all know in android we can achieve that with templatized nested recyclerviews and in this episode we have Sajal Gupta, Prateek and Yashika from Z ..read more

Today we are discussing something very trivial but much ignored and something which differentiates and amateur developer from a good one i.e Memory Leaks. We have Jupneet Singh with us who will shed light on the same ..read more

How many times have you heard the terms ART, Dalvik, DVM, DEX, AAPT, Zygote Processes etc. and chose to ignore or read later. Well no more. In this episode of AndroIdiots Podcast we talk with Romi Chandra & Amanjeet Singh from Bobble Keyboard Engineering team about everything that goes under the hood of Android Runtime ..read more