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Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Enrique López is a freelance Android Developer, who also writes books, articles and travels around the world to multiple events while running marathons everywhere! Now, he’s presenting his new book, «Living by the code«, where he’s put together the tools and habits of many renowned developers. I was lucky to be included in it! Enrique will tell us about his story, but also about the process of creating this book, from the inception to making it a reality as it is today. 1. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNgiGlKP8H8 2. Questions PART 1: Interview Tell us a little about your story. Where are you from, how was your childhood, and what led you to start in software development? How was your career progression to what it is today? How’s your life as a nomad? How long do you spend at your house in Munich per year? What are the most difficult things that you had to overcome to get to where you are today? And what helped you the most? How’s life as a freelance? What are the things you do for the community? Like talks, organizing events, books, etc What do you get from all your effort? What about other hobbies? I know you love running ???? When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll continue in software development for the rest of your career?   PART 2: About the book How did this idea come out? How was all the organizational process? From contacting the publisher, deciding the names, doing the interviews… What are some of the names included in the book? How many are in total? What are the similarities you found among the interviewees? Is there a recipe for success? What were some of the most surprising answers you got? What do you think that other devs will get from reading the book? Do we have any estimated dates for the release? If you had to pick just one tip for our listeners, what would it be? 3. Links mentioned during the interview Twitter: https://twitter.com/eenriquelopez «Living by the code» book: https://livingbythecode.io/ — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antoniolg28 Podcast https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Welcome to another episode of Droidkast LIVE. But this time I’m bringing a little different program. When I interviewed Fernando in the first Droidkast, he proposed interviewing me in a future episode. So to celebrate that we are more than 1000 friends on YouTube, we decided to make it real. This time was a little special, because I didn’t do any talk about programming (you already have a lot on the YouTube channel, and many more to come ), but it was an opportunity to know more about how I started, how I got into the Android world, and the rest of the evolution that may give you some ideas to follow a similar path. We talked about my most personal side too. I really hope you enjoy it! 1. The video You can watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enORwnVUyM 2. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here: https://droidkast.live — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antoniolg28 Podcast https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Lara Martin came to tell us about her beginnings and her experience as an Android Developer at Berlin. Her talk was about Flutter! And how Flutter allows programmers and designers to experiment and play with their app’s user interface, and create experiences that run at 60 fps with the look and feel of the Android and iOS native components. 1. The video You can watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwcp5qYVvkQ 2. The interview: Main questions Tell us a little about your story. Where are you from, how was your childhood, and what led you to start in software development? How was your career progression to what it is today? How’s your life in Berlin nowadays? What are the most difficult things that you had to overcome to get to where you are today? And what helped you the most? I recently read your article about the need for juniors in our industry. What did you detect that pushed you to write this article? I’ve seen that you love sketchnoting. In fact, you have a site with Miguel Beltrán about it, sketchnoting.dev. Can you tell us a little more about what it is, and how it helps you? Do you have time for other non-tech related hobbies? Or at least, not software related? When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll continue in software development for the rest of your career? If you had to recommend just one thing to our listeners, about anything, IT related or not, what would be? Questions from the Audience: Nate Ebel: What’s your favorite and least favorite things about Flutter 3. Links mentioned during the interview Twitter: https://twitter.com/lariki Sketchnoting: https://sketchnoting.dev/sketchnotes/ 4. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here: https://droidkast.live — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antonioleivacom Podcast https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Nate Ebel was our guest on Droidkast.LIVE! He’s an Android Engineer at Pixite Apps, speaker in many events and organizer of Droidcon Boston. Probably you know him through his youtube channel, goobar.io His talk was about what Android devs wish they had known when starting out. Explains 3 kinds of advice the Android developers wish they had known when moving beyond Hello World and starting their careers. 1. The video You can watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pi3QEi1iwU 2. The interview: Main questions Tell us a little about your story. Where are you from, how was your childhood, and what led you to start in software development? How was your career progression to what it is today? How about your time at Udacity? You’re a remote work advocate. Can you tell us what you find fascinating about it? Anything you don’t like? In your free time, you do many other things related to software development. You’re really active! Tell us a little about them What’s your experience in organizing such an important even as Droidcon Boston? Tell us about goobar.io. How did you come out with the idea, and what’s the goal of the project? Do you have time for other non-tech related hobbies? Or at least, not software related? When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll continue in software development for the rest of your career? If you had to recommend just one thing to our listeners, about anything, IT related or not, what would be? 3. Links mentioned during the interview Twitter: https://twitter.com/n8ebel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goobar_io/ Blog: https://goobar.io/ 4. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here: https://droidkast.live I’ll come back soon with new awesome guests! — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antonioleivacom Podcast https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Joe Birch was our guest on the last episode! He’s an Android Lead at Buffer, Google Developer Expert for Android, Google Play and Flutter, instructor at caster.io and Public speaker. He’s also a volunteer for Sea Shepherd UK! So we talked about all that during the interview His talk was about modularizing Android Apps: what they are, their benefits, how to modularize features and the possible issues we may find. 1. The video You can watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXCrihPdmqY 2. The interview: Main questions Tell us a little about your story. Where are you from, how was your childhood, and what led you to start in software development? How was your career progression to what it is today? How do you manage to find time to do all the things you do? 56 blog posts, 12 talks, 8 OS projects, GDE, work on renovating your new house… Do you ever sleep? Of all the things you spend your time on, what’s the one you enjoy the most? I know that you have a very special connection with animals: you’re vegan, you are a volunteer in a sanctuary, for Sea Shepherds… This is quite far from what I see in my day to day sadly. Where did all this need to help other living beings come from? What’s the kind of work you do with them? When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll continue in software development for the rest of your career? If you had to recommend just one thing to our listeners, about anything, IT related or not, what would be? 3. Links mentioned during the interview Twitter: https://twitter.com/hitherejoe The Remote Dev podcast: https://twitter.com/the_remote_dev Chord Assist: https://chordassist.com/ Buffer: https://buffer.com/ 4. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here: https://droidkast.live I’ll come back soon with new awesome guests! — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antonioleivacom Podcast https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — Huyen came to tell us how she became a software developer, her experience becoming an Android developer, a  speaker. She also told us about some of her hobbies Her talk was about the new features inside ConstraintLayout 2.0, with a special focus on MotionLayout. We saw how MotionLayout can help you create awesome animations in no time. Huyen is currently working at Trello, which many of you may use. She is also the co-creator of Android Dialogs: a YouTube channel where they interview many Android developers. You probably have seen her in one of the many events she attends. 1. The video Disclaimer: Droidkast is a live video show, which means that especially the talk in the second part can be difficult to understand without the visual aid. You can always watch the original episode on YouTube here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAObt5ePIpg 2. The interview: Main questions Tell us a little about your story. Where are you from, how was your childhood, and what led you to start in software development? I think that when I knew about you, you already were in Trello. How was your career progression to get there? What do you think that it helped you the most? I can imagine that giving to the community (talks, interviews, events) has helped you in many ways. Would you recommend it to anyone? Did you have to fight many fears to be able to do it? Things like impostor syndrome, public speaking, the frightening post-talk questions… ???? I’m especially interested in Android Dialogs, your interviews channel with Chiuki. Doing on-site interviews seems especially difficult, because you have to take the equipment with you… How do you organize those talks? Apart from doing all those great contributions, what other hobbies do you like to spend your free time on? I read something about games ???? And what about food and cooking? I see you sometimes share your new recipes. When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll continue in software development for the rest of your career? If you had to recommend just one thing to our listeners, about anything, IT related or not, what would be? Questions from the audience What’s your routine or tricks to learn new things? 3. The talk: Cool ConstraintLayout 2.0 ConstraintLayout has had quite a year in 2018: the release of 1.1 in April and the announcement of 2.0 in May. The ConstraintLayout team has certainly kept us busy with frequent updates, optimizations, and new features including groups, barriers, circular constraints, and optimizations. As if that wasn’t enough, ConstraintLayout 2.0 now adds a Helpers API and the MotionLayout, which builds on the capabilities of ConstraintSets to give developers featured-packed and fine-grain control in building animated transitions within a layout, including keyframe animation. In this session, we will look at concrete examples and code (and also adventure to the design view and motion editor) to show how to use these features to do really cool things with ConstraintLayout. We’ll also talk about the features in ConstraintLayout’s future. Link to the repository: https://github.com/queencodemonkey/cool-constraintlayout-2.0 4. Links mentioned during the interview Huyen’s blog: https://www.randomlytyping.com Huyen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/queencodemonkey Android Dialogs: https://www.youtube.com/androiddialogs Trello site: https://trello.com 5. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here: https://droidkast.live I’ll come back soon with new awesome guests! — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antonioleivacom YouTube https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/

Join the new events: https://droidkast.live Learn Kotlin for Android from scratch: https://antonioleiva.com/free-training/ — I had the honor to have Fernando Cejas as my first guest for Droidkast.LIVE. We talked about almost two hours about lots of things, related to his life, how to balance work and life, interview processes, sharing with the community, new technologies… 1. The video Disclaimer: Droidkast is a live video show, which means that especially the talk in the second part can be difficult to understand without the visual aid. You can always watch the original episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5q8Eyt9Ag 2. The interview: Main questions  Tell us a little about your story: where are you from, how was your childhood and what led you to start in the world of software development? I knew about you when you were at Tuenti, here in Spain. Was it your first job? How did you end up working in Spain? Then you moved to SoundCloud Berlin. Was it difficult to move to a country with a different language? Do you think that non-native have to fight more to get the same recognition? How have you felt on that aspect? You talk a lot about kindness and to help each other as a way to grow yourself. How do you think this has helped you in your life, and how do you apply it to your day-to-day? I know you’re nowadays a big fan of cycling. Have you always been into sports before or that’s a recent hobby? How do you feel this new hobby is impacting your life? When you think about your long-term future, how do you see it? Do you think you’ll devote all your life to software development? If you had to recommend just one thing to our listeners, about anything, IT related or not, what would be? 3. The talk: The Art of Coding: Disasters and Failures The talk was an interesting journey through many of the coding mistakes we usually commit, and how to prevent them: Software engineering and technology is about constant evolution, which mainly involves continuous improvement. And in order to achieve it, there is long path ahead of us, which many times is not easy to follow up. Jump onboard in this journey about common (or not) software engineering disasters, failures and mistakes and how we can get the most out of those lessons in order to learn and write/develop better software. https://speakerdeck.com/android10/the-art-of-coding-disasters-and-failures 4. Links mentioned during the interview Fernando’s blog Fernando’s Twitter Slides from the talk 5. Subscribe to Droidkast.LIVE If you don’t want to miss the following episodes, join the mailing list to receive new updates here. I’ll come back soon with new awesome guests! — Follow me online: Twitter https://twitter.com/lime_cl Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antonioleivag/ Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/kotlinandroiddev/ Blog https://antonioleiva.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/antonioleivacom YouTube https://droidkast.live/join-podcast/