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NFJS2025

Practical Android

Modern Android applications use many features that go beyond the basics. This talk will demonstrate the compatibility library, along with many of the popular open source libraries, including:

  • ButterKnife
  • Dagger
  • Retrofit
  • EventBus by greenrobot
  • Espresso testing
  • the Realm database

The talk will also include a discussion of application architectures, like MVP and MVVM.

If time is available, some discussion of reactive architectures using RxAndroid will be included as well.


Kenneth Kousen

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

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