Check out this long read about the no code approach. You'll find good and bad cases, useful tools and some examples of automation.
 
#nocode

Paging 3 library is out in the alpha channel. Updates include list separators support and filter / map operators.
The strange thing here is the following highlight: "Automatically requests the correct next page when the user scrolls to the end of the loaded data". I thought this whole library is about it and it should work correctly from day one.
 
#jetpack #paging #library

@MightySeal shared with us a link on an AMA thread with Android Studio engineering team. It'll start on July 30, you still have plenty of time to post your questions.
 
#ama #studio #ide

Good news, everyone! Looks like Jetpack development is at the beginning of migration to GitHub. For now they're accepting PRs for Room and WorkManager.
 
#jetpack #library #github

Don't forget to bump your targed SDK version to 29, it's required for app updates starting from November 2nd. Thanks to @istima for the reminder.
 
#play #target #sdk

Wow! Looks like Huawei has passed Samsung in devices shipment in Q2 2020 and is now No. 1 supplier of smartphones in the world.
 
#samsung #huawei #manufacturer

Intellij IDEA 2020.2 is out. There are a lot of fancy features, but full GitHub pull requests support is the most long-awaited one for sure!
 
#intellij #studio #ide

Finally, Google introduced In-App Review API. Now users can publish reviews on Play directly from your app.
 
#google #library #review

Android Gradle Plugin update: new APIs and, wait for it... new docs published!
 
#gradle #agp #build

A great post about RCE vulnerability in MX Player. The funny part is the RCE was gained because of some Facebook SDK.
 
#cybersec #vulnerability #facebook

setCurrentScreen method in Firebase Analytics is now deprecated. You're free to track the screen_view event whenever you like.
 
#google #firebase #analytics

Several great examples of what you can build using simple gradient in XML.
 
#gradient #xml #ui

Google introduces a replacement for SharedPreferences - DataStore.
This thing can handle errors, knows how to work in a non-blocking way and even has transactions! Moreover, now you can store protobuf-serialized typed objects.
Looks very promising, I'm looking forward to a stable release.
 
#preferences #datastore #protobuf

A nice tutorial on how to build your very own daemon. I was surprised to learn that single fork() invokation is not enough.
 
#unix #daemon #c

An investigation post: how much memory do objects really hold on Android? Primary conclusion - Android heap dumps give us the real size of instances.
 
#art #memory #cpp

In Android 11 ART can update class layout on-the-fly. It can be used with features like Apply Changes in Android Studio. This thing is called Structural Class Redefinition and you'll find a bunch of interesting details in the post.
 
#art #studio #ide

How to leak memory with two hands, PackageManager and some references?
 
#leak #memory #packagemanager

After a long day of fighting RecyclerView and UI thread it’s always nice to just sit, relax, and learn how to build an async ViewHolder creator using Kotlin Channels.

#recycler #async #channel

Found an interesting idea in this post: using suspend modifier to mark all non-pure functions and to prevent us from invoking those functions from the pure ones. The idea becomes especially interesting with Redux-like approaches.

#kotlin #coroutine #fp

Working with timestamps and timezones is almost always a hassle. Moreover, SQLite doesn’t have a dedicated type to store such values. However, there are some built-in functions to simplify such tasks. In this post you’ll find a good example of using them in a real production app.

P.S. Here you’ll find a funny video about general problems with dates, time and timezones.

#sqlite #db #date