Android Montréal March 2013 Meetup

Wednesday March 27th, 2013

Intro

Hello everyone! Our March meet up is soon upon us. This month something new, we will be hosted by the nice people at Nurun.

We're asking people to please register in advance, since we'll have a limited amount of seats (30).

Android development best practices : Modularity

by Francis Toth

Francis is an Android/Java Developer with good experience in Web programming, and has been working more than 7 years for government institutions, web agencies, in investment banking, and in the tertiary sector as well. He is highly interested by Agile software development practices (Scrum, XP, TDD), programming concepts (Merise, OOP, Design Pattern...) and open-source software.

Talk summary

Péreniser une application n'est pas chose aisée et nécessite de prendre en compte plusieurs paramètres pour y parvenir. Parmi ceux-ci, on retrouve la Modularité, nécessaire à la garantie de la maintenabilité et de l'extensibilité d'un système. Bien plus qu'un concept abstrait, cette notion s'avère être essentielle à tous les niveaux d'une architecture, depuis la relation entre deux objets, jusqu'aux interactions d'une application avec son environnement. Durant cette présentation, nous verrons les aspects fondamentaux de ce principe ainsi que la manière de l'appliquer dans un projet Android.

Achieving scalability is not easy and requires to consider several parameters. Modularity is one of them, and ensures a system's maintainability and extensibility. More than just an abstract concept, it turns out to be essential at all levels, from the relationship between two objects, to the interactions between an application with its environment. In this talk, we'll cover the main aspects of this concept and the ways to apply it.

Dependency Injection on Android with RoboGuice

by Etienne Caron

Etienne is a mobile software developer for Nuance Communications. He's part of the R&D team that works on Nina™, the virtual assistant for mobile customer service.

Talk summary

Dependency Injection has been a popular pattern in the web-oriented Java world for quite some years now. It was made popular in no small part following this article written in 2004 by Martin Fowler.

Google Guice was introduced in 2008, and being the first DI framework using Java annotations, it went on to win that year's Jolt Award for best Library, Framework, or Component.

This will be an introduction to RoboGuice, or "Google Guice on Android".