Google Developer Expert for Android, enthusiastic speaker, senior engineer at Snapp Mobile, Kotlin aficionado, spends more time travelling than working (he/him)
Ash Davies
Senior Android Developer @ Snapp Mobile GmbH
Hype Driven Development: How I learned to stop worrying and love the failures
Ever wondered what it would take to combine all the experimental features of a language you love (Spoilers... It's Kotlin!) into one big bundle? I'm a lover of new and shiny stuff, so let me share with you my experience of using everything shiny, and new, in my pet project, to show you how to *not* do all the things you might want to do with yours! JetBrains Compose for Desktop, Unstable Coroutines APIs, version catalogues, Gradle composite builds, multiplatform navigation support, multiplatform paging, GraphQl, Firebase Cloud Functions, Molecule, Mosaic, what could go wrong?! This isn't a fairytale story, when making use of unstable technology, it's not always tested with other unstable technologies; I'm going to tell you of all the things I could have done better, so that you don't need to make the same mistakes!
Talk Title
War in Ukraine – How Can Devs Help?
Technology is being used in many ways to help drive aid into Ukraine, to help fight Russian aggression and support refugees who need housing, medical help, employment and more. This panel will look at some of the current solutions and look at where we as a community can fill the gaps. What are the most urgent needs and what can we do to help? What apps would be useful to develop? How can we support Ukrainian devs who have lost jobs and homes? How can we drive fundraising and support for Ukraine within the apps that we are already developing?