Android Snacks: Recent Episodes
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Blog Posts * Navigation Week * A problem like Navigation by Maria Neumayer + Exploring the Android Navigation Artchitecure Component by Joe Birch + Exploring Android's Navigation Architecture Component by Nish Tahir + Android Navigation Components — Part 1 by Dario Mungoi + Android Navigation Architecture Component — a glimpse of future? By Juhani Lehtimäki * All About Type Aliases in Kotlin by Dave Leeds * A year as Android Engineer by Lara Martin
Tools and Libraries * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 15 * Android Emulator 27.2.9 * Dagger 2.16 * Moshi 1.6 + Exploring Moshi’s Kotlin Code Gen by Zac Sweers
Other Stuff * Play services issue preventing MapView from working on some Huawei devices * Fix for LiveData problems with Fragments * Episode 92: Navigation Controller by Android Developers Backstage * 124: IO 2018 first impressions with Android Dialogs & Pocket Casts team by Android Developers Backstage by Fragmented Podcast * Fragmented Crossover #io18 by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * RxJava to Kotlin coroutines by Chris Banes * Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase by Doug Stevenson * Immerse Yourself in the Android Developer Community by Tyler McCraw * Custom Light Drawing in an Android Smart Home app by Gabor Novak
Talks * Droidcon Italy
Tools And Libraries * Embedding Kotlin Playground by Jetbrains * Nanoscope by Uber * Android Studio Canary 3.2 alpha 13 * Emulator updated to 27.3.0 canary and 27.2.8 beta * Firebase/Play services were updated to… a few different versions * Google Places/Maps pricing changes
Other Stuff * Spansspanspanspan * New Udacity Flutter course from Google * https://androidexample365.com
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Blog Posts * Previewing Material Design 2.0 by Raveesh Bhalla * Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1 by Sean McQuillan * HQ Trivia reverse engineering by Hugo Hache and Adrien Couque
Tools And Libraries * Android Studio 3.1.2 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 12 * Emulator 27.2.7 Canary
Other Stuff * Android Fireside Chat Twitter Questions * Lisa Luo: Functional reactive programming + MVVM, Swift + Kotlin by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions by Joe Birch * Coroutines and RxJava — An Asynchronicity Comparison (Part 3): Transferring stream of values by Manuel Vicente Vivo * A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base. by Yossi Segev * #31DaysOfKotlin — Week 3 Recap by Florina Muntenescu and Sean McQuillan * Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing * What’s new in Firebase Authentication?
Talks * How Proguard Works by Jeb Ware
Updates * Kotlin 1.2.40 * Gradle 4.7 * Android Things Developer Preview 8 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 11 * Android Emulator 27.2.6 Canary * Android Test Support Library 1.0.2-beta1 * Dex Method List 3.1.0
Other Stuff * Android Developer Survey from Google * Android platform versions dashboard update * Fragmented Cast: 121: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team – II with Donn Felker, Kaushik Gopal, Paco, Raúλ Raja, Jorge Castillo * Android Dialogs: Joaquim Verges: Twitch + ARCore with Huyen Tue Dao and Joaquim Verges * Chicago Roboto 2018 Recap by Nate Ebel
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Blog Posts * What does GDPR mean for Mobile App Owners? — 12 Use Cases by Karol Wrótniak * Android Activity Life-Cycle for Professional Developers by Vasiliy Zukanov + /r/androiddev comments * Sealed classes opened my mind by Patrick Cousins
Tools And Libraries * Paris * Crumb
Updates * ConstraintLayout 1.1.0 * Android Studio 3.1.1 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 10 * Emulator 27.2.5 Canary * Play Services 15.0.0
Other Stuff * GCM now deprecated in favour of FCM * Constraint Layout 2.0 * Google IO Schedule * Episode 89: Upon Reflection by Android Developers Backstage * 120: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team by Fragmented Podcast
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Blog Posts * 31 Days of Kotlin * #31DaysOfKotlin - Week 1 Recap by Florina Muntenescu & Sean McQuillan + 31DaysOfKotlin by Andy Barber * Android Face Detection Tutorial by Dragos Holban * Understanding Spans by Florina Muntenescu
Talks * Learning Kotlin: An Android Developer’s Journey by Rebecca Franks
Tools And Libraries * Hyperion * Android KTX 0.3 * Android Support Library 27.1.1 * Architecture Components [Room 1.1.0-beta2, Paging 1.0.0-beta1, Paging RxJava 1.0.0-alpha1 ] * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 9
Other Stuff * Picasso vs Glide * AppComponentFactory * 119: Flutter with GDE Eugenio Marletti – Part 2 by Fragmented Podcast
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Blog Posts * RecyclerView — More Animations with Less Code using Support Library ListAdapter by Craig Russell * Effective Java in Kotlin, item 1: Consider static factory methods instead of constructors by Marcin Moskala
Tools And Libraries * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 7 * Android Studio 3.1 RC 3 * Emulator 27.2.2 Canary * ConstraintLayout 1.1.0 beta 6 * Room 1.1.0 beta 1 * Lifecycles 1.1.1 * Paging 1.0.0 alpha 7 * Google Play Services 12
Other Stuff * androiddev Salary Thread * 118: Flutter and cross platform development with GDE Eugenio Marletti – Part 1 by Fragmented Podcast * Lyla Fujiwara: ViewModel & LiveData by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Android P Slices: the missing documentation — part 1 by Sebastiano Poggi * A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base by Yossi Segev * Cropping Bitmaps With Custom Glide Transformations by Adam McNeilly
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Updates * Android Studio 3.1 RC2 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 6 * Emulator 27.2.1 canary
Other Stuff * Episode 88: Autofill by Android Developers Backstage * Kevin Most: Idiomatic Interop in Kotlin + KEEP by Android Dialogs
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News * Android P Developer Preview * Framework Fragments and Loaders deprecated. + Are Slices for the Google Assistant?
Blog Posts * Random Musings on the P Developer Preview 1 by Mark Murphy * A Better Way to Launch Activities on Android by Zak Taccardi * Exploring Android P: Display Cutouts by Joe Birch
Tools And Libraries * Support Library 28.0.0 Alpha 1 * Kyrie * gradle-dependency-graph-generator-plugin * scrcpy * Android Studio 3.1 RC 1 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 5 * Android Emulator 27.1.2 * Android Emulator 27.2.0 Canary * Firebase Crashlytics * Android Things Developer Preview 7
Other Stuff * 116: Learning Kotlin – inline, noinline, crossinline by Fragmented Podcast * François Blavoet: Custom ViewGroups by Android Dialogs * Episode 16: Tools by The Context
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Blog Posts * A life without ifs by Maria Neumayer * Simplifying DiffUtil with RxJava by Saket Narayan * Make your custom view 60fps in Android by Dmitriy Rabetckiy
Tools And Libraries * Long Shadows * Support Library 27.1.0 * Android KTX 0.2 * Room 1.1.0-alpha3 * Emulator 27.1.12 Canary * Kotlin 1.2.30 * Gradle 4.6
Other Stuff * Improving Stability by Reducing Usage of non-SDK Interfaces * #31DaysOfKotin * 115: Architecture Components with Akshay Chordiya by Fragmented Podcast * Angella Derington: Teaching RxJava with a Little Game of Thrones by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Pro Android Studio - Code navigation by Jeroen Mols * Fragment Transitions by Chris Banes * Build awesome animations with 7 lines of code using ConstraintLayout by Leonardo Pirro
Tools and Libraries * Prefekt by Mark Allison * ARCore 1.0 * Android Studio 3.1 Beta 4 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 4
Other Stuff * Kotlin Notes for Professionals * Android Notes for Professionals * Episode 87: ARrrrrrrr by Android Developers Backstage * 114: All About CI & CD on App Center w/Patrick Nikoletich by Fragmented Podcast * Anita Singh: Flying Solo with Android Development by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Kotlin + buildSrc for Better Gradle Dependency Management by Sam Edwards * Best Practices for Unit Testing in Kotlin by Phillip Hauer * ViewModels under the hood by Dario Mungoi
Tools and Libraries * QuickPermissions * SimpleChangelog * Room 1.1.0-alpha2 * Android Studio 3.1 Beta 3 * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 3 * Android Studio Emulator 27.1.10 Canary
Other Stuff * LearnDagger (A big list of Dagger 2 learning resources) * Android Bad Advice AMA * 113: Chatting with Pinterest’s Christina Lee by Fragmented Podcast * Pierre-Yves Ricau: Dagger Builder Summary (5 of 5) by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Exploring KTX for Android by Joe Birch * It’s time to ditch Loaders in Android by Daniel Novak * Why starting a new Android project with Java is a bad idea by Juhani Lehtimäki
Tools and Libraries * Android KTX * Charles * ConstraintLayout 1.1.0 beta 5 * Android Studio 3.1 Beta 2 * Android Studio Emulator 27.1.7
Other Stuff * Fragments removed from next version of Android * Dagger AMA * 112: Effective Java v3 – Item #9 – Prefer try with resources to try finally by Fragmented Podcast * Pierre-Yves Ricau: Dagger Static Provider (4 of 5) by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Engineering Smart && Building Dumb: Building an Android Thin-Client at OkCupid by Brandon John-Freso * Setting up Android projects on Bitrise CI by Joe Birch * Custom attributes using BindingAdapters in Kotlin by Fabio Collini
Tools and Libraries * Android Studio 3.2 Canary 1 * Android Goldfinger * Android Studio 3.1 Beta 1 * Lottie 2.5.0-rc1 * Kotlin 1.2.30 EAP
Other Stuff * 111: Effective Java v3 – Item #5 – Prefer Dependency Injection to Hardwiring Resources by Fragmented Podcast * Pierre-Yves Ricau: Set Dagger Component (3 of 5) by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Experimenting with Nested Scrolling by Alex Lockwood * Android Strings XML Tips & Tricks by Karol Wrótniak * Tool Time – Part 2 by Mark Allison
Talks * It's a Kotlin, Kotlin, Kotlin World by Jake Wharton * Architecture Components by Yigit Boyar * What Mom Never Told You About Multi-Threading (Mobile) by Fernando Cejas
Tools and Libraries * Gradle 4.5 * Architecture Components * Android Wear 2.2.0
Other Stuff * 110: BuddyBuild and CI/CD services by Fragmented Podcast * Episode 86: It's gr8! By Android Developers Backstage * Pierre-Yves Ricau: Dagger Builder (2 of 5) by Android Dialogs * Google IO 2018
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Blog Posts * Reading ProGuard’s Outputs by Jeb Stuart * Getting a Grip on GraphQL by Annyce Davis * 25 new Android libraries and projects to check at the beginning of 2018 by Michal Bialas * Kotlin generic variance modifiers by Marcin Moskala
Tools and Libraries * Arrow * Kotlin 1.2.20
Other Stuff * 109: Learning Kotlin – Sequences the new Iterables by Fragmented Podcast * Pierre-Yves Ricau: Dagger Singleton (1 of 5) by Android Dialogs * Episode 15: 2017 in Retrospective by The Context
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Blog Posts * Using Android Fragments in 2018 by Daniel Novak * Mastering Shadows in Android by Mert Şimşek * Catching Up on CatchUp: API Quirks by Zac Sweers
Tools and Libraries * Android Indefinite Pager Indicator by Ryan Brooks * Android Studio 3.1 Canary 8 * Android Documentation now including Kotlin
Other Stuff * 108: State of React Native for Android with Ryan Salva by Fragmented Podcast * Hadi Hariri: Developer Advocacy + Kotlin by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * Lessons from my first multiplatform Kotlin project by Marcin Moskala * New Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps without affecting their signatures by Guard Square * The Android Lifecycle cheat sheet — part I: Single Activities by Jose Alcérreca * The Android Lifecycle cheat sheet — part II: Multiple Activities by Jose Alcérreca * The Android Lifecycle cheat sheet — part III: Fragments by Jose Alcérreca
Talks * Google Developer Days India * Droidcon SF
Tools and Libraries * Welcoming Android 8.1 Oreo and Android Oreo (Go edition) * Gradle 4.4
Other Stuff * Kotlin Team AMA: Ask Us Anything * Moyinoluwa Adeyemi: Mobile Vision API by Android Dialogs * 105: Jake Wharton on the Android Kotlin Guides by Fragmented Podcast
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Blog Posts * Representing View State with Kotlin Data Classes by Craig Russell * Android Camera Library Comparison by Jason Pribble * Multi-Threading Like a Boss in Android With RxJava 2 by Aritra Roy
Talks * Building a layout from Scratch using ConstraintLayout by Rebecca Franks
Tools And Libraries * avdo by Alex Lockwood * Android 8.1 final preview * Kotlin 1.2 * Android Things Developer Preview 6
Other Stuff * Episode 84: Instant Apps by Android Developers Backstage * 104: Conversations with GNOME/Mono/Xamarin creator Miguel and VS App Center PM Simina by Fragmented Podcast * Andrea Falcone: Fastlane by Android Dialogs * Dan Kim: Getting to 100% Kotlin by Android Dialogs
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Blog Posts * The Art of Android DevOps by Ian Rumac * Our Top Nine Learnings from Migrating from RxJava 1 to RxJava 2 by Roman Zavarnitsyn * Moving Past GoogleApiClient by Sam Stern * Kotlin: Contexts & SharedPreferences by Mark Allison
Talks * Building Libraries for Kotlin by Eric Maxwell
Tools and Libraries * Spritz + Blog Post
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