Reexamining Developer Advice from the First droidcon

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Compares advice from 2009 to 2024 and finds which rules still matter: keep long work off the UI thread, use StrictMode for thread/resource issues, test on real devices for battery and performance but use emulators plus Firebase Test Lab or BrowserStack for scale, and prefer vector drawables over nine-patch. Shows AI prompts versus human answers, cites tools like Charles/Fiddler for network faults, notes Pixel 8 class hardware invalidates some early optimizations and foldables remain a special case.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:05From books to engineering
3. 19:46Field testing philosophy
4. 23:28Modern Android performance
5. 30:47Hardware future
6. 32:52Conclusion

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