Android
Apple And Google Partner On COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology
Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint …
Be My Eyes Chooses Twilio To Bring Sight To People With Visual Impairments
Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, today announced that it has been selected by Be My Eyes to power its mobile app connecting sighted volunteers with blind and low vision users over video chat. Across the globe, an estimated 253 million people have a visual impairment that affects their daily activities and can make them …
Canonical Introduces Anbox Cloud – Scalable Android™ In The Cloud
Canonical announced Anbox Cloud, a platform that containerises workloads using Android as a guest operating system enabling enterprises to distribute applications from the cloud. Anbox Cloud allows enterprises and service providers to deliver mobile applications at scale, more securely and independently of a device’s capabilities. Use cases for Anbox Cloud include cloud gaming, enterprise workplace applications, software testing, …
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Adopt Wide Color Gamut
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Adopt Wide Color Gamut A guide on what’s new in wide color in Android 10 and how to adopt wide color. Presented by: Peiyong Lin
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 …
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
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? …
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 …
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Preparing for Scoped Storage
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Preparing for Scoped Storage Plan overview and best practice guide to the new storage model in Android 10. Presented by: Roxanna Aliabadi, Zimuzo Ezeozue, Yacine Rezgui
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Shrinking Your App with R8
Android Dev Summit 2019 | Shrinking Your App with R8 This talk dives into some of the details of how the R8 application shrinker shrinks apps to make it easier for developers to use R8. Presented by: Søren Gjesse, Christoffer Adamsen