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#420
June 28, 2020
 
 
 

Articles & Tutorials

 
link image   The forgotten art of construction (proandroiddev.com)

Danny Preussler tries to bring some sanity to the wild world of excessive constructor parameters due to our tools, like Dagger.

 
Jetpack App Startup: keep your startup logic organized (www.rockandnull.com)

Bevan Steele takes a look at the new Jetpack App Startup library, which helps you better control all the startup initialization in your app.

 
Exploring Hilt: Application Level Code Generation (joebirch.co)

Joe Birch starts taking deeper dives into how Hilt is working under the hood. In this post, he examines the @HiltAndroidApp annotation.

 
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Going deep on Flows & Channels — Part 2 (medium.com)

In this series of articles, Julián Ezequiel Picó dives deeper into the Channel’s and Flow’s API. In part 2, he continues with Flows.

 
Going deep on Flows & Channels - Part 1 (proandroiddev.com)

In this series of articles, Julián Ezequiel Picó dives deeper into the Channel’s and Flow’s API. In part 1, he starts with Cold & Hot Streams.

 
Surface Duo testing tips & tricks (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Cesar's post contains some tips to help automate the Surface Duo emulator for testing

 
Introducing Luch — a New Library for BLE Beacon Scans on Android (proandroiddev.com)

Artem Gapchenko introduces a new library for BLE beacon scans on Android.

 
NumberPicker (blog.stylingandroid.com)

Recently Mark Allison needed to use a NumberPicker, and the experience was quite a frustrating one and in this post, he looks at some of the issues with it, and some workarounds.

 
Never Use Foo, Bar, Baz, etc. in Software Documentation (www.techyourchance.com)

Vasiliy Zukanov shares a convincing argument to avoid nonsense placeholder names in documentation & code samples, and instead use more meaningful ones!

 
Analyze Stack Traces in Android Studio (segunfamisa.com)

Segun Famisa shows a quick way we can use Android Studio to make it easier to debug errors using the built-in “stack trace analysis” tool.

 
Generics in Kotlin (magdamiu.com)

Magda Miu's detailed overview of Kotlin Generics.

 
Making The Most of a Rewrite (eng.snap.com)

If you find yourself at the foot of a major app rewrite, it’s worth spending meaningful time designing and building your core architecture before onboarding features. The Snap Android team describes their approach.

 
Introducing Hephaestus (developer.squareup.com)

The team at Square wanted to make working with Dagger easier and the cycle from above shorter. Enter Hephaestus, a Kotlin compiler plugin that automatically adds Dagger modules and component interfaces to the required Dagger components.

 
Fueled Reactive apps with Asynchronous Flow — Part 5 (proandroiddev.com)

Raul Hernandez Lopez truly believes moving logic away from the view would make our code more testable. In this 5th part, he walks us through a View Delegate Implementation.

 

Libraries & Code

 
luch (github.com)

A somewhat simplistic library built with only one purpose in mind - monitor nearby beacons when the app's in the foreground mode.

 
hephaestus (github.com)

Hephaestus is a Kotlin compiler plugin to make dependency injection with Dagger easier by automatically merging Dagger modules and component interfaces.

 

News

 
link image   Announcing the winners of the #AndroidDevChallenge (android-developers.googleblog.com)

As developers continue to help shape new frontiers on Android, Google revived the Android Developers Challenge in 2019, with a focus on “Helpful Innovation,” powered by on-device machine learning. Here are the winners!

 
Productive Server-Side Development with Kotlin Programming Language (kotlinlang.org)

The Kotlin team has just launched a new Kotlin Server page with info about frameworks, tools, use cases, tutorials, and more!

 

Videos & Podcasts

 
link image   Actions Builder & Actions SDK (www.youtube.com)

Actions Builder and Actions SDK enable you to develop, test and deploy conversational Actions

 
Android Developers Backstage: Machine Learning Learning (androidbackstage.blogspot.com)

In this episode, Chet and Tor talk with Hoi Lam and Matej Pfajfar about machine learning on Android

 
Android Makers 2020 (www.youtube.com)

All the videos from Android Makers 2020

 
 
 
 
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