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Android Dev Summit 2019 | From Gradle Properties to AGP APIs Gradle’s API for task inputs, outputs, and wiring has changed significantly over the last couple of years. In this session, we will review the current best practices and how they fit with new upcoming APIs for the Android Gradle Plugin. Presented by: Jerome Dochez, …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Fighting Regressions with Benchmarks in CI It’s easy to forget about performance until users complain, but you can prevent a bad user experience by catching regressions in CI. We’ll explore why variance makes regression detection difficult, and strategies we use while writing Jetpack libraries. We’ll review the new Jetpack Benchmark …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Emulator in a Continuous Integration (CI) Environment In this talk, we go over how Android Emulator can be utilized in a continuous integration environment. In particular, we go through recently launched functionalities such as: the Emulator Docker image and how it can be deployed to vendors such as Google Cloud …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | How The Android Team Makes Widgets Accessible In this intermediate level talk, we cover accessibility using real world examples. You’ll find out about accessibility in framework and androidX code, and learn about support for accessibility in Android widgets. Along the way, you’ll discover good patterns that can make your UIs …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Advanced Haptics: The When, What, and How of New Haptic APIs Do you make apps for games, accessibility, or productivity? Do you want to know more about making richer haptic experiences? We will present new and existing framework level support for Android haptics along with underlined principles and recommendation to …

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DataProgramming

Android Dev Summit 2019 | Demystify the Data in Android Studio Profilers Profilers are a powerful tool in a developer’s arsenal, but working with performance data can be intimidating at times. This session demystifies the profilers in Android Studio, discussing how to read and make use of data from memory heap dumps and CPU recordings …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Android Studio: Debugging Tips n’ Tricks Level up your debugging skills! We all spend so much time in the debugger, and this session teaches you about some of the powerful debugging features available in Android Studio. This talk should appeal to all, from beginners to experts and everybody in between. …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Managing Companion Devices Learn how to seamlessly manage companion bluetooth and wifi devices by using the Companion Device Manager (CDM) API. You’ll be able to find and connect to devices without needing location permission. CDM also provides special privileges to apps that allow them to run in the background, use …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | High Performance (Graphics) Programming This talk details various techniques employed by the Filament rendering engine to deliver high performance on Android devices: CPU cache-friendly programming, multi-threaded job system to saturate cores, dynamic resolution, frame skipping, doing shader computations in half-floats, how to use small float formats for textures, writing SIMD …

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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Permissions On Android Permissions provide the means for apps to communicate to their users why they need access to the user’s private data. In Android, we want to provide users control and transparency over their data, and have made a number of changes in Android 10 that bring greater restrictions …

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