10th edition

Sep 23 2016

Geek Night is a regular event to promote the sharing of technical knowledge and increase collaboration among the geeks in the National Capital Region (Delhi). It is organized by a passionate group of programmers and sponsored by Thoughtworks.

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Agenda

5:00 - 5:45 pm

A cup of EarlGrey during iOS testing

EarlyGrey is a new open sourced test automation tool for iOS. In this talk, we will have a glance on what EarlGrey is really about and how it differs from UI unit testing framework available in Xcode7. Lets see it with a demo that how EarlyGrey can help you build your test pyramid correctly.

By: Pallavi Malik, Sahej Kaur

Resources: EarlGreyTest Pyramid

5:45 - 6:15 pm

Swift compilation competes with Bolt

Have you been getting bogged down by the compilation time of your swift app? Do you wish that your app could compile faster? In this talk, I will share the techniques and tweaks that have drastically reduced build time of an enterprise scale iOS app.

By: Kuldeep Mishra, Rohit Garg

6:15 - 6:30 pm

Tea & Snacks

Break up Session

6:30 - 7:15 pm

Deep Link to the Future

Deeplinking is becoming a major feature in mobile development. In today’s mobile-first digital landscape, this talk is about understanding the relevance and capabilities of deeplinking. We will explain and demonstrate how it can be implemented effectively to improve user experience and engagement in a mobile app.

By: Akash Gupta, Ashish Tyagi

7:15 - 7:45 pm

API requests take centre stage with Restofire

Its the API Requests that live at the heart of all mobile applications. Restofire is a protocol oriented network abstraction layer in swift that is built on top of Alamofire to use services in a declarative and type safe manner. The main idea is to allow developers to create API Requests with minimal code and isolate them from UIViewControllers. Lets see this philosophy in action.

By: Rahul Katariya

Resources: Restofire

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