A rant on Android development

1. Many ways to Android Development

2. Kashif Razzaqui

3. You can call me 'K' for short

4. Yes that's really short!

5. If foul language bothers you,
you better leave now

6. Now!

7. Fuck

8. Always wanted to say that
on a presentation without losing my job!
:)

9. Say that a lot in Mobile Development

10. Before we start

11. We want to hire you! No, not really

12. CEO – Bhavin Turakhia – nice guy

13. Enough chatter
Lets talk development

14. Mobile Dev is never just one platform

15. Unless you are an apple fanboi!

16. Apple sucks!
Because its closed source

17. Just like Windoze

18. Yes yes, I am Kashif 'Linux' Razzaqui

19. Don't make a face
Your android is all Linux

20. 3 Codebases – turns out not
the worst thing in the world
Yes, I couldn't give a flying fuck for a windoze phone

22. One codebase === Awesome;;;;;
Extra semi colons just to fuck with Javascript

24. Little did we know

25. Very Little

26. .

27. One sucky language is not
equal to another sucky language

28. Java = Objective C

29. Javascript to the rescue
All phones come with browsers

30. Just kidding, who has
Javascript ever rescued

31. All phones have a webview, yay!
Just our luck, browsers everywhere

32. Enter HTML5 love
And JS love
Appstore problems
Android markets – Amazon and Google
If you love those you must try bondage sex!

33. Good fuckin idea

34. 6 months later

35. We are fucked!

36. Here is what happened

37. Phonegap
Embed webview in a vanilla native app and use its
bindings
Didn't support BB then, supports BB now
Notifications not really Androidish – but we wrote
one, easy.
Android Menu not available
Overall not bad

39. Dojox.mobile
Familiar but Nascent
Not enough native looking controls
Chat View - We couldn't pin it to the bottom
Fuckin webview for mobile is different
Some jazz about viewports and calculating heights
All jarry!
Scrolling not native like
Not BB friendly

40. We are fucked!

41. Customary lolcat

42. nd
2 picture for 'funny' on Google

43. Sencha Touch to the rescue

44. Just kidding again

45. Sencha Touch
Nice native looking
Not BB friendly, couldn't give a starving rats ass!
Scrolls beautifully – until you give it some data
Very Extensible but not easy to modify
Java influenced – hierarchy taller than Everest
Some ugly-ass shit – Android password field
Extra textbox!
DOM is slow
Tried flyweight for Roster – did not fly!
Better than dojox.mobile

46. We are fucked!

47. No, wait not yet!

48. Titanium to the rescue

49. Guess what?

50. Just kidding

51. Titanium Mobile
Its Javascript but no webview – yay?!
Bad experience with Chat.pw for Desktop
Different API for iOS and Android
Poor fucking code
BOSH library needs DOM – webview back!
Native controls – good!!
Code doesn't work
Dev environment sucks!
Build scripts suck!!
Android menu – no not really
Thought we might fix Titanium – died a little
No one gives a fuck about BB

52. We are fucked!

53. Fuck one codebase

54. In theory there is no difference
between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
--Lotsa folks

55. Native

56. Works but its Java
And XML

57. If you like Java you are
a sadistic mofo

58. DocumentBuilderFactory
DocumentBuilder
Document
Element
Node
NodeHashMap
I need hashish!!

59. So much typing
So fucking much typing

60. We are fucked!
But atleast we can scroll now :)

61. Native
No eventloop! (acyclo) – NIO
Threaded :(
Activities & Services
Back button
Zygote is cool
No excuses

62. So what's my unfuck

64. Many ways to Android developement
Just kidding

65. Questions?