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

In this post you’ll learn how to apply coroutines for awaiting a layout pass completion or an animation end.

#ui #view #coroutine

If using multiple nested .copy calls on data classes is your case for whatever reason, take a look at this post, Arrow-kt will probably make your life a bit easier.

#arrowkt #fp #library

In this post you’ll find a nice explanation of how tail call optimization works. Surprise-surprise, the optmization also works fine with non-recursive functions.

#compiler #optimize #recursion

Draft JEP on Primitive Objects.
It’s something like an immutable class without identity. Copy of such an object is an exact copy of that original object. And there are plans on treating int, boolean, etc. as primitive objects. We’re waiting for you, List<int>!

#java #jep #primitive

Fun, fun, fun! There’s an issue in linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver: some kids were fooling around with lockscreen, clicking and typing random stuff, then screensaver crashed, letting them pass into the system.

#linux #crash #cybersec