In this episode we talk to Amanda about how she got started as an Android developer, working at Venmo, her path to mastering Java and Android, dabbling with the dark side and Animations in Android!


Show Notes
Learning Java and Android

Java for Dummies [amazon.com]
Effective Java (2nd Edition) - Joshua Bloch [amazon.com]
Android programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide [bignerdranch.com]

Computer Science

CS50 by Harvard University: David Malan [youtube.com]
CS61B by UCBerkely: Jonathan Shewchuk [youtube.com]
MIT 6.00 by MIT Opencourseware [youtube.com]

Venmo

Venmo: The Musical 2015 (lip dub)
Hack Week at Venmo [venmo.com]

Swift/iOS and other languages

Kotlin [kotlinlang.org]

Animations

Snowdream github repo [github.com]
DevBytes youtube playlist
Chet Haase on Animations in Honeycomb [blogspot.com]
Droid Inspector [sriramramani.com]
Android ObservableScrollView [github.com]

Awesome picks for the week:
Amanda

On being a senior engineer [kitchensoap.com]

KG:

Guillotine animation

how we developed the guillotine menu animation for Android [yalantis.com]
how we developed the guillotine menu animation for iOS [yalantis.com]

Timely like Animations

Visualizing the Timely number tweening animation [youtube.com]
Implementing Timely's tweening animation [sriramramani.wordpress.com]

Contact
Amanda

@mandybess [twitter.com]

Fragmented

@fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
@donnfelker [twitter.com]
@kaushikgopal [twitter.com]

Twitter Mentions