Hi Mark!

hello, Susheel!

how can I help you today?

I have come across a framework named Litho for highly performant UIs in Android. It comes from facebook. Have you any experience with it?

I have heard of it, but that's it

Apparently it moves the measure and layout phase to a background thread before rendering in ondraw.

I am wondering what the adoption rates are for Litho. It's been around for a year now.

no clue

I guess I will just ask the creators tomorrow. I will be at droidcon SF.

ah, OK

they're holding that on a Sunday?

Speaking of which, are you planning on adopting kotlin for your books?

Yes. Sunday and Monday in San Fransisco

that's a curious choice of days -- haven't seen that before

with regards to Kotlin, I don't expect to be addressing it any time soon

if/when I do, it will be in some separate book

Cool

I know you said you might be interested in exploring various architecture patterns. Is that still the case?

I will be covering MVI in an upcoming edition of "Android's Architecture Components"

model view intent. Heard of it.

I may eventually add "compare-and-contrast" chapter(s) examining some of the others

yes, though it's a truly awful name for Android

model: probably not what you're thinking

view: definitely not what you're thinking

intent: SERIOUSLY not what you're thinking

:-)

Haha. I think someone's presenting on this topic too. There are so many architectures out there. It's hard to pick one.

there were two presentations covering it at droidcon NYC, plus references elsewhere

frankly, I think the best one was Jake Wharton's from Chicago Roboto, though technically it wasn't on MVI

he kinda wound up there in the end

like most of these architectures, the definitions are highly fuzzy

True. Sometimes it's hard not to get overwhelmed by the amount of content that's out there to learn for a regular android dev.

oh, tell me about it

it's getting kinda frightening

And here I was thinking about starting to learn iOS development in my *SPARE* time.

Haha

I know not this "SPARE time" of which you speak

I hear ya.

Well I didn't have a lot to questions to ask today. I went to KotlinConf past couple days and decided to stay in town for Droidcon last minute. I want to see you speak at one of these events sometime.

I have been cutting back on my speaking, so I'm mostly mid-Atlantic, plus DevFest Florida

Hmm. That's cool. I want to thank you for what you do for us devs with your books and office hours. Take care Mark!

thanks for the kind words!

You're welcome. Have a great evening :)

you too!