John is an Android engineer who previously worked on Cash App and Square’s Point-of-Sale and Developer SDK teams. He is the lead maintainer for Paparazzi and has contributed to LeakCanary, Picasso and Wire.
John Rodriguez
Writing your own Gradle Plugin: A Deep Dive
Want to improve some aspect of your Gradle builds? Don't know how?
In this session, we'll talk about:
* Configurations and why understanding them is important
* The lifecycle of a Gradle build and how to architect your plugin around it
* What a few well-known plugins do well and what we can learn from them
We'll also walk through an actual plugin I've written to solve a real problem.
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A Snapshot Preview of Paparazzi 2.0
Since last Droidcon NYC, Paparazzi has seen continued increased adoption across the Android community!
In this session, we'll discuss:
* why pixel perfection is challenging af
* image encoding and why we chose APNG for animations
* why Google's publishing of layoutlib is great for the community
* ...and more!
We'll also give a sneak peek to what's coming in 2.0, as well as why we're excited about it and you should be too!