A funny post appeared on Android Developers blog: they’ve launched a site that can flash certain devices with an AOSP build over WebUSB.

#aosp #usb

Nice! Dark mode support for WebView is coming. It’s still an alpha but good for them!

#webview #dark #theme

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

#androidx #library

@istima sent a great link: looks like Google accidentally published Android 11 landing page on Developer Preview site and then quickly removed it.

#android #google

Android 11 Developer Preview is now available. What a surprise! :)
The most interesting updates are dedicated section for conversations in the notifications shade and single session permissions. The link sent by @Remych04

#google #android #preview

A nice post on using EditText with Spans.

#edittext #textview #span

Looks like we'll be able to handle keyboard visibility via Insets more casually. And a bit more on that on Twitter.

#android #insets #keyboard

@Atetc shared a link on a new release of Kakao - DSL for Espresso. They've updated libraries' versions, added ViewPager2 and several other Views support.
 
#test #library #espresso

Good one: this document describes which languages Fuchsia supports. Short summary:
- C - platform ✅, end-developers ✅
- C++ - platform ✅, end-developers ✅
- Dart - platform ✅, end-developers ✅
- Rust - platform ✅, end-developers ❌
- Go - platform ❌, end-developers ❌
- Python - platform ✅, end-developers ❌
 
#fuchsia #google #language

@lndmflngs sent us a link on his compound-text-view library. It provides a TextView that knows how to change drawables gravity. Check it out!
 
#library #textview #drawable

Looks like there won't be an offline Google I/O event this year.
 
#google #io #conference

@MightySeal shared an interesting link: looks like a much more convenient and typesafe wrapper for the whole startActivityForResult thing is coming soon.
 
#activity #google

A nice overview of what and how we can do with the keyboard and WindowInsets starting with Android 11.
 
#keyboard #android #insets

An interesting idea on tracking pain points in a project with git history.
 
#git #legacy #tool

Check out this JEP. They propose to enhance instanceof so it can be used like this:
if (obj instanceof String s) {
    // can use s here
} else {
    // can't use s here
}
 
#java #jep #instanceof

In this strange post author explores what happens when you try to close your app via System.exit(). It's not clear why would anyone want to do this, but it's always fun to know.
 
#system #jvm #activity

An entertaining post on changes that happened to programming over the last 20 years.
 
#programming #humor

@istima reminded us: Fabric is shutting down today.
 
#fabric #crashlytics #shutdown

Records (kind of data classes for Java) continue to evolve and it's great! JEP 384 is a second iteration based on the first preview feedback.
 
#java #records #jep

Good news, everyone! Microsoft introduces the new multiplatform framework .NET MAUI. It works on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows and is built on top of Xamarin.Forms.
 
#microsoft #dotnet #maui