a small, opinionated shelf

Books

Books that shaped how I think about Android, code, teams, and the craft of shipping. Re-read often. Pressed into colleagues' hands.

• Android: The Team That Built the Android Operating System · Chet Haase
  androidhistory
  Got a personal signed copy from the author. The inside story of how the platform I've built on for over a decade actually came to be.
• Building Mobile Apps at Scale · Gergely Orosz
  androidmobile
• The Software Engineer's Guidebook · Gergely Orosz
  careerengineering
• Mobile System Design · Manuel Vivo
  androidarchitecture
  Cited in this book for how WebSockets are used at a major brokerage product - Trade Republic's real-time data pipeline.
• Clean Architecture · Robert C. Martin
  architectureengineering
  A hot topic for a good stretch of the last decade. Controversial in places, but genuinely worth reading if you want to think clearly about architecture - boundaries, dependencies, and what actually matters in system design.
• Effective Java · Joshua Bloch
  javaclassic
  Helped a lot during early career - shaped how I think about API design, generics, and writing Java that doesn't fight you.
• Effective Kotlin · kt.academy
  androidkotlin
• Domain-Driven Design · Eric Evans
  architectureengineering
• Staff Engineer · Will Larson
  careerleadership

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