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12L And New Android APIs And Tools For Large Screens

There are over a quarter billion large screen devices running Android across tablets, foldables, and ChromeOS devices. In just the last 12 months we’ve seen nearly 100 million new Android tablet activations–a 20% year-over-year growth, while ChromeOS, now the fastest growing desktop platform, grew by 92%. We’ve also seen Foldable devices on the rise, with year on year growth of over 265%! All told, there are over 250 million active large screen devices running Android. With all of the momentum, we’re continuing to invest in making Android an even better OS on these devices, for users and developers. So today…
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What’s New For Android Developers At #AndroidDevSummit’21

The app experiences that you as developers build help people around the world in ways we couldn’t have imagined, and at Android Dev Summit, happening over the next two days, we’ll talk about that spirit – focusing on the user, understanding their needs, and then building experiences to delight them. We just wrapped up the keynote, and over the next two days, we’ll focus on an important theme for Android: helping you build excellent apps, across devices. First on updates to our modern Android development offering to help you stay more productive so you can focus on building great applications, and then helping…
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | Google Play Billing: The “Purchase Anywhere” Paradigm Shift

Android Dev Summit 2019 | Google Play Billing: The “Purchase Anywhere” Paradigm Shift “In the past few years, we have introduced new features into Google Play, that enable users to discover and purchase items and subscriptions in many new ways, from inside and outside the app. Developers who have adopted these changes in their apps have seen improvements in user experience, and with it, substantial growth in revenue. However, integrating these features into an app or game requires a fundamental change in which you think about how purchases are made and consumed. In this session, we will take a deep…
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | WorkManager: Beyond the Basics

Android Dev Summit 2019 | WorkManager: Beyond the Basics Learn more about WorkManager, the Jetpack library for background processing. This talk introduces intermediate and advanced concepts to address common questions, gotchas, and issues you might see when you deploy to a large ecosystem of users and devices. Presented by: Rahul Ravikumar, Sumir Kataria
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | LiveData with Coroutines and Flow

Android Dev Summit 2019 | LiveData with Coroutines and Flow LiveData is a simple lifecycle-aware observable, designed for making UIs that react to changes safely and efficiently. It can be used beyond View↔️ViewModel communications and even components like Room support it. However, there’s a risk of overuse, especially when dealing with multiple threads. The solution? Instead of expanding its features, LiveData now works seamlessly with Kotlin’s coroutines. In this talk, we cover the new “”liveData”” coroutine builder, showing when and how to use it and testing patterns and antipatterns to make clean, efficient, and solid reactive UIs. Presented by: Jose…
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | What’s New in Room

Android Dev Summit ’19 | What’s New in Room Room offers type-safe, easy persistence without the boilerplate—but we didn’t stop there! In Room 2.2, we’ve added several highly requested features: better support for relationships, integration with Kotlin Flows, pre-packaged databases, partial entities, schema default values and faster build speed. In this talk, you’ll learn about these features and how using them in your app will enable more advanced functionality and require less code to write and maintain. Presented by: Florina Muntenescu, Daniel Santiago Rivera
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Android Dev Summit 2019 | An Opinionated Guide to Dependency Injection on Android

Android Dev Summit 2019 | An Opinionated Guide to Dependency Injection on Android Dagger has become the recommended way to do Dependency Injection on Android. However, there are many ways to use Dagger! Come hear why we recommend Dagger, best practices including recommended setup in multi-module projects and what plans we have to improve Dagger in Android so that you can create a solid, extensible solution for managing dependencies in your app that scales to large projects. Presented by: Manuel Vivo, Daniel Santiago Rivera
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