At the beginning of this year I joined the program MBS.works – The Year of Living Brilliantly. It is a one year journey, with 52 teachers divided into three seasons. Season one is about grounding – about breathing in awareness, and courage, and insight, and in this article I added my notes for each session and the lessons I discovered during this amazing experience.
On 9th of May, 2021, I was speaker at “Meet women Google Developers Experts from around the world“, a session part of the Google IO 2021.
On April 24th, 2021, I talked at “International Women’s Day 2021: Courage to create“, event organised by Women Techmakers Lviv and Women Techmakers Dnipro. My talk was about the “Courage to create a career in mobile development”.
On 25th of March, 2021, I co-organized the annual event of the Women Techmakers Romania community, International Women’s Day. This year our theme is based on the incredible strength and power women have shown in the face of adversity. We recognize that there were tremendous challenges over the past year, especially for women, from dealing with COVID to broader issues of racial justice and human rights. But we remain hopeful about the future and the belief that together our community can create positive change throughout the world.
On 5th of March, 2021, I talked for a group of students about how to build a career in Android Development. It was a really nice experience and I enjoyed the opportunity to answer at their questions and to share the things I learned in my 10 years experience in software development.
I wrote about the Atelierul Digital pentru Programatori in one of my previous articles. It’s a program started by Google Romania in 2018 and I am one of the mentors. I teach Android Fundamentals and I also created the curricula and the materials for this course that is organized in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, and Iasi. Until now I trained more than 180 students and it is an amazing experience.
In this episode of Kotlin and Jetpack APIs for MAD Skills, I shared how you can leverage Kotlin to speed up development and improve quality. I demonstrated an example with CameraX vendor extension by performing the implementation steps.
I am often asked how to start learning Android, or how to become an Android developer. So I was thinking that a blog post that will answer these questions might be a good idea.
Each one of us has our style of learning. So first of all it is important to identify your VARK learning style and after that check the dedicated resources.
I hope for a healthy and safe 2021, with all the dear people around me and more focus on the things that truly matter.
RecyclerView is a ViewGroup that helps us to display a scrollable list of elements. It is one of the most used UI components in the Android apps and it involves having a data source, an adapter, and the RecyclerView. Other than displaying the content, RecyclerView is efficiently reusing the views that have scrolled off the screen by recycling them.
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