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by jpetitto 10y ago
When business meets software...
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by jpetitto 10y ago
I'm not a fan of Fragments when it comes to navigation either, but there are other solutions as well (see Conductor). But there are limitations to using a new Activity for each screen, which I mention in my other comment below. They re
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by jpetitto 10y ago
Fragments are one option. Another is just to use regular Views. There are libraries to help you with this such as Conductor. As for Activities, they are usually overkill for most screens. They don't allow for seamless transitions betwe
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by jpetitto 10y ago
I'm actually surprised they're relying on Activities for the views in the app. I'm not familiar with how the app works, but this is typically an out-dated approach. Activities should really only be treated as entry points int
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by jpetitto 10y ago
Not LA though!
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by jpetitto 10y ago
I would say most of it IS appropriate. A lot of the advice is good for Java development in general, regardless of platform. Enums are one area that is hotly debated in the Android community, but there is no consensus on it. Generally, I wou
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by jpetitto 10y ago
Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons
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by jpetitto 10y ago
I live and work in Pasadena with a metro stop across the street from my apartment. Your commute was definitely a tough one! A big issue I've noticed is that a lot of people work in west LA, but the housing prices are so high that most
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by jpetitto 10y ago
I moved to Los Angeles about four months ago and was surprised how little I drive. Uber and Lyft are insanely cheap here when using the pool/line options. I've taken 10 mile trips for $4! The metro is great too if you live near a
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by jpetitto 10y ago
Any of the popular Square libraries are great examples, https://github.com/square .
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by jpetitto 11y ago
Retrofit is truly an amazing library. With little more than an interface declaration, you are able to make network calls and have the the requests/responses automatically (de)serialized into POJOs. You can even consume responses as an
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by jpetitto 11y ago
"Programming Languages" - https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang "Compilers" - https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers
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by jpetitto 11y ago
Isn't Square attempting to move into this space?
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Why I Don't Use Realm Anymore(johnpetitto.com)
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by jpetitto 11y ago
I've implemented this toy compiler (minus JIT) in Java, following the tutorial on the LLVM website (which uses C). After browsing through the Haskell code, it is incredible how much more suitable a statically-typed, functional language