The Dangers of Jetpack Compose | Gabor Varadi | Coding in Flow Podcast #7

Gabor Varadi aka Zhuinden/EpicPandaForce is a well-known member of the Android developer community because of his elaborate and helpful answers on Reddit and Stackoverflow.
In this episode, he will share his experiences in using Jetpack Compose in real-world Android applications and explain problems we have to watch out for. He will also share his opinions on MVVM vs MVI architecture, reactive programming with Flow vs RxJava, and much more.

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Gabor's Github libraries mentioned in this episode:
Simple-Stack: https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-stack
Simple-Stack samples:
https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-st...
https://github.com/Zhuinden/simple-st...
https://github.com/Zhuinden/jetpack-n...
LiveData-combinetuple-kt: https://github.com/Zhuinden/livedata-...
Flow-combinetuple-kt: https://github.com/Zhuinden/flow-comb...
Gabor's talks about Simple-Stack and reactive programming:
   • Reactive State Management with Jetpack • G...  
   • Simplified Single-Activity Apps Using Simp...  
My MVVM To-Do List tutorial showing navigation arguments & process death:
   • Плейлист  

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
15:33 - How Jetpack Compose works
18:36 - Benefits & problems of Jetpack Compose
50:06 - What's wrong with Navigation Compose
1:06:58 - Simple-Stack
1:36:03 - Single-activity vs multiple activities
1:44:21 - Accompanist is tech debt
1:45:31 - Pure Compose vs fragments
1:57:14 - Process death
2:15:12 - Benefits of reactive programming
2:22:59 - Kotlin Flow vs RxJava
2:31:26 - MVVM vs MVI
2:50:18 - Why Jetpack ViewModel is not a viewmodel
2:52:40 - Clean Architecture mistakes
2:58:38 - Unit testing in one sentence
2:59:48 - More about Gabor
3:01:05 - Stay in touch

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