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A Comprehensive Guide to Android 12’s Splash Screen API

For years Android Devs have always resorted to using a windowBackground or Activity or Fragment for their splash screen.

Articles

Android Developers Blog: Compose for Wear OS now in Developer Preview

At this year’s Google I/O, we announced we are bringing the best of Jetpack Compose to Wear OS. Well, today, Compose for Wear OS is in Developer Preview after a number of successful alpha releases.

Room & Kotlin Symbol Processing

This is the story of how Room added support for KSP.

Android Parcelable in Kotlin Multiplatform

Kotlin Multiplatform despite all of its benefits sometimes has its own challenges. One of these challenges we recently faced was creating Parcelable objects in the shared module for the Android platform.

RecyclerView with Compose View is not Performant

Pick either RecyclerView or LazyColumn. Avoid mixing.

Calling a legacy AsyncTask code using coroutines

Refactoring a legacy code is not an easy task and one of the biggest challenges of programming and we face a lot of difficulties during it. It is especially challenging when you have an application where there are millions of end users using an application at any moment of time.

Libraries and useful resources

skydoves/Balloon

A lightweight popup like tooltips, fully customizable with an arrow and animations.

Repsly/TimelineView

Library used to mark timeline items in list. It can be used for processes that take multiple steps like tracking online orders. Support for both horizontal and vertical lists and a lot of customization options.

Videos/Podcasts

Introduction to WorkManager implementation

An overview and walkthrough of the code you will implement in the WorkManager pathway of Android Basics in Kotlin.

Class of the week

CaptureResult

The subset of the results of a single image capture from the image sensor. Contains a subset of the final configuration for the capture hardware (sensor, lens, flash), the processing pipeline, the control algorithms, and the output buffers.

Beyond Android

The Case for 'Developer Experience'

There’s been a lot of buzz around the “no code” movement and shifts like SaaS and APIs. But with developers spending less than a third of their time actually writing code, the developer experience now includes all the other stuff, maintenance, operations, testing, incidents, more. So how exactly are developers supposed to coordinate all these systems?

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