Mobile @ Reddit / Author of Android books / Last presented at droidcon: SF 2023
Lauren Darcey
Android Platform @ Reddit
The Tech Migration Playbook: A Reddit Case Study
Let's explore practical strategies for pitching, tracking, and measuring the value of Android tech stack and tooling migrations using real-world examples from Reddit. We’ll cover the full life cycle of a migration, from idea through execution, including some of the avoidable pitfalls. By the end of the talk, you’ll have new strategies and actionable insights to overcome challenges and achieve success in your own migration projects.
Key Themes:
Effective Pitching: Learn how to pitch migrations to stakeholders, emphasizing benefits like code maintainability, performance improvements, and developer productivity.
Finding Partners: Identify early adopters, reduce risk for complex ones, and convince the holdouts.
Tracking Progress: Explore best practices for tracking migration progress, including setting clear goals, establishing metrics, and using automation tools for monitoring.
Building Momentum: Discover strategies for building or maintaining momentum for your migration projects, even in challenging business conditions.
Measuring Value: Understand how to measure the value of migrations, including improvements in code quality, reduction in technical debt, and enhancements to user experience.
Talk Title
An Android Time Capsule: Reexamining Developer Advice from the First droidcon
Fifteen years ago, we gathered as a developer community for the first droidcon conference in Berlin to talk about Android. A few of us even gave talks and shared advice and opinions about this new exciting new platform for mobile development. But… Was that advice any good?
Let’s take a trip down out-of-memory lane as Shane and Laurie revisit their first Android talk on development tips and tricks from droidcon Berlin 2009. Twenty nuggets of advice were given (in square slide format, no less). How much of it still holds up in modern Android development? You, the audience, will help us decide!
Get ready to laugh and reminisce about the evolution of Android development over the past 15 years, what has changed and what hasn’t, from the wild early years of Cupcake and Donut to the modern platform we develop on today. Recall the good, the bad, and the quirky of Android's journey, including physical keyboards, weird wearables and more. Come along as we wax nostalgic about that first device you enabled USB debugging for and celebrate how far we’ve come as a platform.