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Fragments: Rebuilding the Internals
Introducing: the new state manager
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Articles
Activities are not what you think
A webpage of an android guy that posts (mostly) android stuff.
Disabling Jetifier
Disabling Jetifier helped cut Cuvva's build times by 40%: in this blog, we'll look at how you can do the same.
Make smarter apps with Awareness API
Making a know-it-all, without pulling your hair.
Recognize Drawings using ML Kit
Using ML Kit’s Digital Ink Recognition API, we can recognize handwritten text or sketches made by the user on a screen.
Libraries and useful resources
cashapp/copper
A content provider wrapper for reactive queries.
theapache64/boil
Boil is a CLI companion to add boilerplate codes to your Gradle project.
Videos/Podcasts
Android Performance Tuner deep dive
Android Performance Tuner (APT) enables you to deliver the best possible experience to each of your users by helping you to measure and optimize frame rate stability and graphical fidelity across many Android devices at scale.
Class of the week
RunningAppProcessInfo
Information you can retrieve about a running process.
Beyond Android
gRPC vs REST: How to Choose the Right API Design?
When developing a modern API, choice between REST or gRPC is your make-or-break decision. We've rounded up why and when you should use gRPC over REST.
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