Lauren Yew
Bio
Lauren Yew is a Staff Android Software Engineer developing Android & iOS core feature libraries for the App Platforms team at The New York Times in Austin, TX. When she’s not writing code, she’s usually training her two dogs. You can find more information on her past talks and work on Android and iOS at https://github.com/laurenyew.
Speaking
Understanding native iOS from an Android perspective
Chicago Roboto 2021 Recording, SlideShare, Sample Code
- Chicago Roboto 2021 (Sept 2021).
- Google Developer Group Dallas (August 2021). Video Recording.
Threading Made Easy! A Busy Developer’s Guide to Kotlin Coroutines & Flows + RxJava migration
360 AnDevCon 2021 Recording, SlideShare, Sample Code
- 360 AnDevCon 2021 Conference (July 2021). Video Recording
- Google Developer Group Dallas (June 2021).
- Google Developer Group Austin (July 2021).
- Austin Android Developer Group (July 2021).
Threading Made Easy: A Busy Developer’s Guide to Kotlin Coroutines
- UT Mobile App Developer Conference (MADCon) (Mar 2019)
- Austin Android Developers Meetup (Mar 2019).
- Google Developer Group Austin (May 2019).
- Google Developer Group Dallas (July 2019).
Blog Posts
NYT Open Blog Posts
- 4 Steps to Win Advocates and Implement a Technical Change (2021).
- Threading at the Speed of Light (Kotlin Coroutines Migration from RxJava) (2021).
Kotlin Migration Blog Post Series (3 part)
- Why migrate your Android app to Kotlin? (2019).
- How to advocate for Kotlin migration + sample migration process (2019).
- 12 Steps to convert your Java class to Kotlin the right way (2019).
Google I/O 2019
- Impressions from Google I/O 2019: Android Q — Dark Theme (2019).
- Impressions from Google I/O 2019: Android Q — Gesture Navigation (2019).
- Impressions from Google I/O 2019: Flutter (2019).
- Impressions from Google I/O 2019: Kotlin Coroutines (2019).
Other
Mentions in Blog Posts
- Innovating from Home: Maker Week at The New York Times - NYT Cooking — Calories & Grocery Features (August 2020).
Previous Work
Turing Honors Computer Science Thesis: cOrcS: Continuation of Orc Language Security with Static Integrity Checking (2013).