003: The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 1)

In this episode of Fragmented, Donn and Kaushik interview Dan Lew - druid of RxJava & RxAndroid! In part 1 of this 2 part series, we find out more about the one they call Dan Lew. We ask Dan how he started off as a developer, how he stays on top of development, where he draws inspiration from for amazing Android development and much more. We then begin disarming the glorious beast that is RxJava touching upon it’s benefits and begin discussion of some common operators.

Show Notes Dan’s open source contributions:

• Joda-Time Android [github]
  • Why developers hate Timezones [youtube]
• Gfycat [github]
• Victor by Trello  [github]

Staying on top of Android Development:

• Android Weekly
• Android Dev Digest
• Google RSS reader app -  gReader
• androiddev [reddit]
• Best Book on learning Java  [Effective Java: Joshua Bloch]

Dan’s  favorite apps:

• Timely
• Pocket Casts
• Reddit News
• Muzei
• gReader
• Link Bubble
• For more inspiration:  Android Niceties

Android Games that Dan plays

• Threes!
• Hoplite
• Wordiest

Working Remotely:

• Trello
• Slack
• Notes by Eran Hammer [hueniverse.com]

Getting started with  RxJava:

• Dan Lews RxJava Series
• Learning RxJava with Android by example [nerds.weddingpartyapp.com]
• Android-RxJava [github.com/kaushikgopal]
• Intro to Rx you’ve been missing [gist]

Rx

• Rx - Reactive Extensions by Microsoft
• ReactiveX [official page for Reactive Extensions]
• RxAndroid