A Book is Born
“Any time anything works out, if you don’t acknowledge the huge luck factor, you’re kind of a jerk.”
–Ficus Kirkpatrick
This weekend marks the launch of a book that I have been working on for the past four years, Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System. …
Google I/O 2021, RenderScript deprecation, #MADSkills Navigation episodes, articles, and a podcast episode
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
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Android 12, MAD Skills WorkManager, AndroidX, Articles, Training, and an ADB podcast episode
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
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Jetpack Compose beta, #AndroidDevChallenge, Android 12, WorkManager, Android for Cars library, RecyclerView, Coroutines, and a podcast
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
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MAD Skills Kotlin+Jetpack and MotionLayout, AndroidX, Hilt and WorkManager articles, MotionTags screencasts, and an ADB podcast episode on WindowManager
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
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Kotlin & Jetpack APIs, a new course on Navigation, several articles, and a podcast episode
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
It’s been a few weeks since the previous Now in Android went live, before the holidays — let’s see what’s been happening in the Android universe in the meantime.
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It’s all my fault
I’m sorry. I’m soooo sorry. Everything in the country, in society, in the entire universe is in such a terrible state right now, and it seems to just get worse all the time. So on behalf of me, I sincerely and deeply apologize. Because it is clearly my fault.
Let…
The man walked to the bottom of the stairs and yelled up to his wife.
“Honey! I need a present!”
The man’s wife yelled back, “A present? You want me to give you a present?”
He said, “No, I need to give a present. I’m going to this thing and…
Modern Android development content, documentation enhancements, AndroidX releases, articles, and a podcast episode
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development.
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Lazy Initialization
In the previous article, I showed how content providers (which show up in an app’s merged manifest file) automatically load some libraries and modules at launch time.
In this article, I will cover the use of the AndroidX App Startup library to have more control over when and how those…
