An iOS Developer's Guide to Building Android Apps

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A CRUD task‑tracker app is built in parallel for iOS and Android to prove iOS experience accelerates Android adoption, using MVVM and shared architecture while handling platform differences. Android uses Kotlin + Jetpack Compose + Room + Coroutines + ViewModel and iOS uses SwiftUI + Swift Data + property wrappers + ViewModel. Teams of 12+ contributors deliver the projects across a January kickoff to March wrap, Android catches up and both reach feature parity, pickers feel faster on Android.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 7:16Goals and talk structure
3. 9:05Building apps in parallel
4. 19:18Architecture comparison iOS vs Android
5. 22:11CRUD app flows overview
6. 33:04Edit flow and cancel handling
7. 36:38Delete flow and confirmation
8. 39:10Android app demo and feature parity
9. 40:18Tips and resources for Android development
10. 42:24Acknowledgements and closing

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