Android ResId

2020-05-06 18:39:01 Android 11 announcement: the Beta Launch Show (June 3, 11AM ET)





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

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

#Android11 #Beta Open / Comment

2020-04-16 12:20:50 ​​​​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. Open / Comment

2020-03-21 11:39:10 Google: "We sadly will not be holding I/O in any capacity this year."

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

#GoogleIO Open / Comment

2020-03-20 09:49:37 ​​#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) Open / Comment

2020-03-04 12:50:30 #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 Open / Comment

2020-02-26 12:51:48 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 Open / Comment

2020-02-25 13:41:24 #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 Open / Comment

2020-02-24 13:19:42 #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. Open / Comment

2020-02-19 22:40:04 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 Open / Comment

2020-02-07 12:26:08 Looks like something dedicated to initialization of different components / libraries is coming to AndroidX.

#androidx #library Open / Comment