How to create and publish own Android Library.
https://medium.com/android-news/the-complete-guide-to-creating-an-android-library-46628b7fc879

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Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster
We’re excited to announce that we are open-sourcing ReDex, with the hope that developers can use these tools to make every Android app smaller and faster — not just Facebook.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/998080480282805

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Reactive Programming for Android
Agera is a set of classes and interfaces to help write functional, asynchronous, and reactive applications for Android.

https://github.com/google/agera

#Agera #library #reactive

Butterknife 8.0.0 is here.
Main features:
- @Bind becomes @BindView and @BindViews
- Calls to bind now return an Unbinder instance
- New: @BindArray binds String, CharSequence, and int arrays and TypeArray to fields
- New: @BindBitmap binds Bitmap instances from resources to fields
- @BindDrawable now supports a tint field which accepts a theme attribute

https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-800-2016-04-25

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Mocking the un-mockable with Mockito 2.1.0!

https://github.com/mockito/mockito/wiki/What's-new-in-Mockito-2

2.1.0 is a major release with numerous features and changes (2.0.0 version was skipped for specific reasons):
• you can mock final classes in Java and consequently all classes and member functions in Kotlin: http://hadihariri.com/2016/10/04/Mocking-Kotlin-With-Mockito
• full-blown Java 8 support, and Java 9 support (depending on the release date)
• richer stubbing/mocking API
• improving & extracting the continuous delivery automation to a standalone library

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

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