The stable release of the Android Jetpack Navigation component.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Cs2MQxyIs

Check details here:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/03/android-jetpack-navigation-stable.html?linkId=64791391

Guides: https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation

#Navigation #Jetpack

Google Play services and Firebase migrating to AndroidX (June/July of 2019) !

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-play-services-and-firebase.html

"If your app depends on any com.google.android.gms or com.google.firebase libraries, you should prepare for this migration"

Migration guide: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate

#AndroidX #Jetpack #Firebase #GooglePlayServices

Starting August 1, 2019, your apps published on Google Play will need to support 64-bit architectures.

https://youtu.be/E96vmWkUdgA

Docs:
https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/develop/64-bit

🙄 How to test your app?

:: Command Line
# A successful install:
> adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk Success

# If your APK does not have the 64-bit libraries:
> adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk adb: failed to install YOUR_APK_FILE.apk
: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-113]

# If your device does not support 64-bit, an emulator, for example:
> adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk
ABI arm64-v8a not supported on this device

#GooglePlay #arm

Testing can seem to be a tax on development time.
However, as many seasoned developers have seen, proper automated testing can increase development velocity as the code base becomes bigger and more complex.
Continuous testing should give you confidence that the change you make won’t break your app.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/10/continuous-testing-with-new-android.html

#testing #Docker

Google has released Android Code Search. It’s a tool for searching Android (and libraries) source code. It also knows how to navigate from one part of the code to another.

#aosp #code #search

Looks like something dedicated to initialization of different components / libraries is coming to AndroidX.

#androidx #library

Google  today announced the first developer preview of Android 11, which is now available as system images for Google’s own Pixel devices, starting with the Pixel  2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/android_beta/comments/f6ep15/android_11_developer_preview_1_now_available/

#Android11

#DependencyInjection

A Dependency Injection Showdown

Choosing a dependency framework for your Android app is, a big decision, it’s not something that you can easily replace later on. Comparison of popular JVM DI: Dagger 2, Koin, Toothpick, Kodein.

#AndroidStudio

Android Studio 3.6 released

A new stable version of the main Android developer tool has been released and it has brought the following improvements:
👉 SplitView instead of Layout Preview (it got worse for me)
👉 ViewBinding
👉 Memory leak detection in the Memory Profiler (why? Is there LeakCanary)
👉 Color Picker
👉 Idea 2019.2
👉 Improvements to “Apply Changes”
👉 Android Gradle Plugin integration with Maven Publishing Plugin
👉 R class now immediately generates bytecode instead of Java code, this speeds up kapt and incremental build
👉 New utility for packing APK. Used by default for debug builds

There are many changes and all of them cannot be listed, but you can familiarize yourself with them in the full review

Kakao 2.3.0 released

Kakao is a PageObject pattern Kotlin DSL for Android UI testing built on the base of Espresso

What's new in the latest version:
👉 ViewPager2 support added with KViewPager2
👉 ChipGroup support added with KChipGroup
👉 Spinner support added with KSpinner
👉 Tint support added to KImageView
👉 Dependencies' versions upgrade
👉 Smaller fixes/improvements

Check out the library at GitHub and get familiar with the full chages here

To see some examples of what you can do with this library, you can read this Medium blog post

#Kakao #Testing

#Kotlin

Kotlin 1.3.70 released

👉 The functionality of StringBuilder has been expanded
👉 Part of the functionality on KClass now does not require kotlin-reflect dependency
👉 Experimental and UseExperimental annotations renamed to OptIn and RequiresOptIn
👉 Clock and ClockMark renamed to TimeSource and TimeMark
👉 kotlin.collections.ArrayDeque was added
👉 Collection Builders: buildList (), buildSet () and buildMap ()
👉 New functions for collections: scan (), scanReduce ()
👉 Kotlin now can generate type annotations at the JVM bytecode (target version 1.8+)
👉 Improved .gradle.kts IDE Support
👉 Debugger improvement
👉 Improved Kotlin scripts, examples

​​#Fabric #COVID19

Fabric shutdown extended to Ma‌y 4, 2020

👑The virus affects everything, even the deadlines for shutdown services. So Fabric shutdown was extended from March 31, 2020 to May 4, 2020(5 weeks)

Google: "We sadly will not be holding I/O in any capacity this year."

https://events.google.com/io/

#GoogleIO

​​​​Modern development is changing rapidly:
👉 new technologies appear;
👉 new libraries and their versions are released;
👉 programming languages are changing;
👉 experience is accumulating that changes approaches and recommendations in development;
👉 device shapes change and become more powerful.

To keep track of everything, you need to read many articles, watch videos from conferences, attend meetups and conferences, follow the best developers on social networks.

Android Broadcast Telegram channel is a place where you can find a selection of the best materials android Android development in a compact format with a short overview and personal opinion of the author.

Android 11 announcement: the Beta Launch Show (June 3, 11AM ET)

https://youtu.be/gqJEcy57hA8

Event details
https://developer.android.com/android11

Android Beta Program
https://www.google.com/android/beta

#Android11 #Beta

#ViewBinding #Kotlin

Make Android View Binding great with Kotlin
2 min read, author Kirill Rozov

Android View Binding is a great feature of Android Gradle Plugin 3.6, which killed findViewById() and Butter Knife. But its proper use is not the most convenient thing.

The article considers how to use Kotlin Delegated Property to simplify this and what trick awaits in Fragment.viewLifecycleOwner

Update: event postponed
https://twitter.com/AndroidDev/status/1266589514937466880?s=19

Android 11 Beta: now available

https://www.blog.google/products/android/android-11-beta/

https://developer.android.com/android11

#Android11 #Beta

Today, we’re releasing the alpha of Jetpack Compose, our modern UI toolkit designed to help you quickly and easily build beautiful apps across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/announcing-jetpack-compose-alpha.html

Manual how to setup it: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/setup

#Jetpack #Compose