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Donn Felker

Kaushik Gopal

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In today's episode, we are joined by Sam Bobra - engineering manager @VSCO, android fangirl and gRPC magician (some would go so far as to say evangelist  !)  to talk about gRPC on Android. Super informative episode!

Show notes at http://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/128/

In today's episode, we are joined by Sam Bobra - engineering manager @VSCO, android fangirl and gRPC magician (some would go so far as to say evangelist !)  to talk about gRPC on Android. Super informative episode!

## Show Notes

* [VSCO](https://vsco.co)
* [Sam's DroidconSF 2017 - Thinking Beyond the REST API: gRPC for Android](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-vuRmuSwUA) 
* [Microservices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices)
* [Go (programming language)](https://golang.org)

### Implementation

* [Protocol Buffers](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/javatutorial)
* [protobuf-gradle-plugin](https://github.com/google/protobuf-gradle-plugin)
* [Reactive gRPC](https://github.com/salesforce/reactive-grpc)
* [Differences between gRPC & graphQL](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12349282)

### Misc

* codegen [grpc-Java](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java)
* codegen [grpc-Lite](https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/java/lite.md)
* codegen [Wire](https://github.com/square/wire)
* [Curling: grpcurl](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl)
* [envoy](https://www.envoyproxy.io)

## Sponsors

* [Bitrise.io](https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=fragmented_spec&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=w25)  
* [Virtual Device Testing: full integration with Firebase Test Lab, run emulators quickly and reliably](https://blog.bitrise.io/introducing-solid-and-snappy-virtual-device-testing-for-android)

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*   [@donnfelker](https://twitter.com/donnfelker) and [+DonnFelker](https://plus.google.com/+DonnFelker)
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Donn Felker

@donnfelker

Kaushik Gopal

@kaushikgopal

Fragmented · June 25, 2018

128: gRPC on Android with Sam Bobra

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