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With the receiver in scope

Repetition is a bane of software development. Kotlin scope functions help when they are idiomatically used.

Articles

Rendering PDFs on Android the easy way

How to take the most out of the PdfRenderer

Package visibility in Android 11

With our ongoing focus on privacy, we’re introducing changes on how apps can query and interact with other installed apps on the same device on Android 11. In particular, we’re bringing better scoped access to the list of apps installed on a given device.

X.509 Certificates in Kotlin

I learned most of what I know about TLS certificates through reading APIs, source code, and specs. My instincts from dealing with ASN.1, X.509, and TLS as a user is that it the APIs are complex, and I should stay away️ from the even more complex implementations.

Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator

When testing Android applications (for example, the LinkedIn mobile app for Android), thorough testing practices can easily lead to a growth in the number of overall tests being performed—from hundreds to thousands to even tens of thousands.

Libraries and useful resources

GitHub - KingsMentor/Phrase: Language Translation wrapper on Google Translate, DeepL and other custom translation engine in Android

Language Translation wrapper on Google Translate, DeepL and other custom translation engine in Android.

Videos/Podcasts

Shhhh! Private!

In this episode, Tor, Chet, and Romain talk with Sara N-Marandi and Philip Moltmann from the Android framework team about some of the new permissions changes in Android 11. We talk about why these changes were made, how to use them correctly in your code, and how things actually work on the inside.

Raising the bar in making Android safe for users

Sudhi talks about how security features have evolved to where we are today with Android 11. We also explore the approach and philosophy of how we look at Security.

Class of the week

GeomagneticField

Estimates magnetic field at a given point on Earth, and in particular, to compute the magnetic declination from true north.

Beyond Android

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

This review is largely in response to the article "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code", and the ensuing Reddit discussion. A lot of really inte

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