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DIY — Device lab

What to do during the COVID-19 pandemic… well I cleaned up my house and found some old phones that I wasn’t using anymore.

Articles

Sealed goodies coming in Kotlin 1.5

Kotlin 1.5 will bring exciting new features, among them improvements to sealed classes and an introduction of sealed interfaces. Let's take a look at what that will look like!

New guidelines for accessing background location

We’ve got 2021 and if you are an Android Developer you need to know a few things that are going to change really soon.

Using Hilt’s ViewModelComponent

ViewModelComponent is a component in the Hilt’s component hierarchy that follows the lifecycle of a ViewModel and allows scoping types to it.

Language Injections in Android Studio

Android Studio is a powerful IDE with a multitude of features that I’ll probably never discover. However, when I do discover a feature of the IDE that I’ve been dreaming about, I get irrationally excited about it!

Libraries and useful resources

CRED-CLUB/synth-android

Synth is CRED's inbuilt library for using Neumorphic components in your app.

Videos/Podcasts

ConstraintSet animations

On this episode of Motion Layout for the MAD Skills series, Sean will show us how to use ConstraintSets and Transitions to define animations from multiple views in Motion Layout.

Class of the week

VoiceInteractor

Interface for an Activity to interact with the user through voice. Use Activity.getVoiceInteractor to retrieve the interface, if the activity is currently involved in a voice interaction.

Beyond Android

When costs are nonlinear, keep it small

Batching work is more efficient … until cost rises nonlinearly with batch size. Then smaller batches are the most efficient. So don’t delay maintenance!

Meetups

Android Talks #35: AndroidX Novelties

Here we go again! Join us for our first Infinum Talks in 2021 and let's start this year the right way. We have prepared two interesting topics for you.

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