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Android Support Library v24.2 released!
Release 24.2.0 contains the following changes:
1) v4 Support Library split
2) API updates
3) Behavior changes
4) Deprecations
5) Bug fixes
Note: Release 24.2.0 removes support for Android 2.2 (API level 8) and lower. Classes and methods that exist only to serve those system versions are now marked as deprecated and should no longer be used. These deprecated classes and methods may be removed in a future release.
Discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/4y70e7/android_support_library_v242_released/
More info:
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/support-library/revisions.html
#SupportLibrary
Major news and very important changes of Kotlin programming language in new email mailing list.
Subscribe here http://kotlinweekly.net/
#kotlin
Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7 Available
We've just released Android Studio 2.2 Preview 7 the Canary channel.
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent
#RxAndroid 1.2.1 released with AndroidSchedulers.reset() to match #RxJava 1.1.6's Schedulers.reset() API.
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid/blob/master/CHANGES.md#readme
Clean Android Code: How to write testable, re-usable and maintainable code when developing applications for Android.
#Architecture
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RxUi
Talking to Android View layer in a Reactive way from Artem Zinnatullin
#RxJava
http://artemzin.com/blog/rxui-talking-to-android-view-layer-in-a-reactive-way/
Network traffic monitoring for your mobile apps
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Realm has reached 1.0!
They couldn't have done it without your support!
#realm
https://realm.io/news/realm-1.0/
All Android sessions at Google I/O 2016
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc8jQTUYvIfqA9lMvSGQWtte
#GoogleIO
Google I/O 2016 - Keynote live stream kicks off in 1 hour.
http://google.com/io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFm4s50PnmY
#GoogleIO
How To… Speed up Gradle build time
https://www.timroes.de/2013/09/12/speed-up-gradle/
#gradle
Android Support Library 23.4 is out now with bug fixes.
https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/B7QhFkWZ6YX
#SupportLibrary
Official Android app for Google I/O has been updated in PlayMarket: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched
Let's take a look at the event schedule and app's UI innovations.
#io #app
Butterknife 8.0.0 is here.
Main features:
- @Bind becomes @BindView and @BindViews
- Calls to bind now return an Unbinder instance
- New: @BindArray binds String, CharSequence, and int arrays and TypeArray to fields
- New: @BindBitmap binds Bitmap instances from resources to fields
- @BindDrawable now supports a tint field which accepts a theme attribute
https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-800-2016-04-25
#library
RxJava vs Agera
https://twitter.com/akarnokd/status/723083911287332864
#RxJava #Agera
Gradle 3.0 is now available!
Core changes:
* Build speed increased up to 75% thanks to Gradle Deamon, which is enabled by default now
* First support for Gradle Script Kotlin!
* Support of the latest Java 9 EAP builds.
Full list of improvements since Gradle 2.0 can be found here: http://docs.gradle.org/3.0/release-notes#all-improvements
P.S. Additionally, Gradle team presented a draft of new Performane Guide:
https://gradle.github.io/performance-guide/
#gradle
Completely free version of book about Gradle in PDF.
Authored by O'Reilly.
Book covers such topics as:
* built types and flavors
* custom tasks
* testing
* performance and more...
http://www2.gradle.com/l/68052/2016-07-05/7mlynp
#gradle
A better underline for Android
https://medium.com/google-developers/a-better-underline-for-android-90ba3a2e4fb
RxJava v1.1.6 is here!
#RxJava
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/releases/tag/v1.1.6
Learn Kotlin while developing and Android App
A really series of Stories where we are going to learn Kotlin, while developing an Android App
#kotlin
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Android Studio 2.2 Preview 2 Available
#AndroidStudio
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio22preview2available
Intro to ConstraintLayout
http://riggaroo.co.za/constraintlayout-101-new-layout-builder-android-studio/
#guide
Android Developers: Google I/O 2016 recap
Google I/O 2016 took place May 18–20th and while a new hardware was shown, from an API’s perspective, IO16 was a lot lighter than IO15.
Spoilers:
- Firebase 2.0
- Changes in Android N
- Changes to fragments
- Android Studio 2.2 Preview
- NDK / C++ changes
- Best practices in Media Playback
- Nearby API & BLE Powered Notifications
- Android Wear 2.0
- Leanback for Android TV
- Instant Apps
#GoogleIO
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Access your Google Play Developer Console data from your Android device.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.playconsole
#app
New android layout manager was presented and pushed to the official Google Github. It offers similar behaviour to the CSS flexible box layout module. In this series we’ll take a look at FlexboxLayout and try and gain some insights in to how it works and how to get the best out of it.
https://blog.stylingandroid.com/flexboxlayout-part-1/
#AndroidStudio 2.1 enables Dex In Process, a feature that can dramatically improve all your build times. To take advantage of Dex In Process, you’ll need to modify your gradle.properties file and increase the amount of memory allocated to the Gradle Daemon VM by 1 Gb, to a minimum of 2 Gb, using the org.gradle.jvmargs property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SY5nkNVUn0
#InstantRun is an #AndroidStudio feature that significantly reduces the time for building and deploying incremental code changes during your coding / testing / debugging lifecycle. Join Reto Meier as he offers a peek behind the curtain to learn how Instant Run actually works, and learn some tips to help make it work better for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StqAZ1OQbqA
The stable release of Android Studio 2.1 supports Android N Developer Preview: N Developer Preview Support, Instant Run.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/04/android-studio-21-supports-android-n.html
#AndroidN #AndroidStudio
As you may know 18-20 May we will have the greatest Google I/O 2016 and here we are glad to present you schedule for this party. So make you calendar free, do not plan any business at these days.
https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule
#GoogleIO
Reactive Programming for Android
Agera is a set of classes and interfaces to help write functional, asynchronous, and reactive applications for Android.
https://github.com/google/agera
#Agera #library #reactive