Libraries I wish I knew about when I started
summary
Builds a Tinder for tacos in a 45‑minute hackathon and shows working code using Butter Knife for view binding, Picasso for image loading/caching, Gson for JSON ↔ POJO, Retrofit for HTTP calls, Realm for local storage and Dart/Henson for intent extras. Claims: less boilerplate, safe async image/networking, easy serialization, and simple persistence. Demonstrates gotchas: Gson skips nulls by default and can't persist list of strings in Realm yet. App demo runs but some features remain unfinished.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:02similar things
- 4:29bind(this)
- 17:27ariable from an API?
- 18:08n date format?
- 25:26Realm
- 27:29Transaction()
- 35:55ilders with Henson
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