Android Snacks

Episode 40 - 20/5/18

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Blog Posts
Navigation Week
A problem like Navigation by Maria Neumayer
Exploring the Android Navigation Artchitecure Component by Joe Birch
Exploring Android's Navigation Architecture Component by Nish Tahir
Android Navigation Components — Part 1 by Dario Mungoi
Android Navigation Architecture Component — a glimpse of future? By Juhani Lehtimäki
All About Type Aliases in Kotlin by Dave Leeds
A year as Android Engineer by Lara Martin
Tools and Libraries
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 15
Android Emulator 27.2.9
Dagger 2.16
Moshi 1.6
Exploring Moshi’s Kotlin Code Gen by Zac Sweers
Other Stuff
Play services issue preventing MapView from working on some Huawei devices
Fix for LiveData problems with Fragments
Episode 92: Navigation Controller by Android Developers Backstage
124: IO 2018 first impressions with Android Dialogs & Pocket Casts team by Android Developers Backstage by Fragmented Podcast
Fragmented Crossover #io18 by Android Dialogs
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Episode 39 - 5/5/18

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Blog Posts
RxJava to Kotlin coroutines by Chris Banes
Announcing new SDK versioning in Google Play services and Firebase by Doug Stevenson
Immerse Yourself in the Android Developer Community by Tyler McCraw
Custom Light Drawing in an Android Smart Home app by Gabor Novak
Talks
Droidcon Italy
Tools And Libraries
Embedding Kotlin Playground by Jetbrains
Nanoscope by Uber
Android Studio Canary 3.2 alpha 13
Emulator updated to 27.3.0 canary and 27.2.8 beta
Firebase/Play services were updated to… a few different versions
Google Places/Maps pricing changes
Other Stuff
Spansspanspanspan
New Udacity Flutter course from Google
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Guest hosted by Zac Sweers
Edited by Mike Scamell

Episode 38 - 29/3/18

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Blog Posts
Previewing Material Design 2.0 by Raveesh Bhalla
Introducing Constraint Layout 1.1 by Sean McQuillan
HQ Trivia reverse engineering by Hugo Hache and Adrien Couque
Tools And Libraries
Android Studio 3.1.2
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 12
Emulator 27.2.7 Canary
Other Stuff
Android Fireside Chat Twitter Questions
Lisa Luo: Functional reactive programming + MVVM, Swift + Kotlin by Android Dialogs
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Episode 37 - 22/4/18

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Blog Posts
Exploring the v28 Android Design Support Library Additions by Joe Birch
Coroutines and RxJava — An Asynchronicity Comparison (Part 3): Transferring stream of values by Manuel Vicente Vivo
A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base. by Yossi Segev
#31DaysOfKotlin — Week 3 Recap by Florina Muntenescu and Sean McQuillan
Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing
What’s new in Firebase Authentication?
Talks
How Proguard Works by Jeb Ware
Updates
Kotlin 1.2.40
Gradle 4.7
Android Things Developer Preview 8
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 11
Android Emulator 27.2.6 Canary
Android Test Support Library 1.0.2-beta1
Dex Method List 3.1.0
Other Stuff
Android Developer Survey from Google
Android platform versions dashboard update
Fragmented Cast: 121: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team – II with Donn Felker, Kaushik Gopal, Paco, Raúλ Raja, Jorge Castillo
Android Dialogs: Joaquim Verges: Twitch + ARCore with Huyen Tue Dao and Joaquim Verges
Chicago Roboto 2018 Recap by Nate Ebel
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This episode was guest hosted and edited by Michael Bailey
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Michael Bailey is also cohost of the Native Wheel House podcast

Episode 36 - 15/4/18

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Blog Posts
What does GDPR mean for Mobile App Owners? — 12 Use Cases by Karol Wrótniak
Android Activity Life-Cycle for Professional Developers by Vasiliy Zukanov
/r/androiddev comments
Sealed classes opened my mind by Patrick Cousins
Tools And Libraries
Paris
Crumb
Updates
ConstraintLayout 1.1.0
Android Studio 3.1.1
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 10
Emulator 27.2.5 Canary
Play Services 15.0.0
Other Stuff
GCM now deprecated in favour of FCM
Constraint Layout 2.0
Google IO Schedule
Episode 89: Upon Reflection by Android Developers Backstage
120: Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team by Fragmented Podcast
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Episode 35 - 8/4/18

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Blog Posts
31 Days of Kotlin
#31DaysOfKotlin - Week 1 Recap by Florina Muntenescu & Sean McQuillan
31DaysOfKotlin by Andy Barber
Android Face Detection Tutorial by Dragos Holban
Understanding Spans by Florina Muntenescu
Talks
Learning Kotlin: An Android Developer’s Journey by Rebecca Franks
Tools And Libraries
Hyperion
Android KTX 0.3
Android Support Library 27.1.1
Architecture Components [Room 1.1.0-beta2, Paging 1.0.0-beta1, Paging RxJava 1.0.0-alpha1 ]
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 9
Other Stuff
Picasso vs Glide
AppComponentFactory
119: Flutter with GDE Eugenio Marletti – Part 2 by Fragmented Podcast
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Episode 34 - 25/3/18

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Blog Posts
RecyclerView — More Animations with Less Code using Support Library ListAdapter by Craig Russell
Effective Java in Kotlin, item 1: Consider static factory methods instead of constructors by Marcin Moskala
Tools And Libraries
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 7
Android Studio 3.1 RC 3
Emulator 27.2.2 Canary
ConstraintLayout 1.1.0 beta 6
Room 1.1.0 beta 1
Lifecycles 1.1.1
Paging 1.0.0 alpha 7
Google Play Services 12
Other Stuff
androiddev Salary Thread
118: Flutter and cross platform development with GDE Eugenio Marletti – Part 1 by Fragmented Podcast
Lyla Fujiwara: ViewModel & LiveData by Android Dialogs
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Episode 33 - 18/3/18

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Blog Posts
Android P Slices: the missing documentation — part 1 by Sebastiano Poggi
A Guided Tour inside a clean architecture code base by Yossi Segev
Cropping Bitmaps With Custom Glide Transformations by Adam McNeilly
####Tools And Libraries
Json2kotlin
Profilo
Updates
Android Studio 3.1 RC2
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 6
Emulator 27.2.1 canary
Other Stuff
Episode 88: Autofill by Android Developers Backstage
Kevin Most: Idiomatic Interop in Kotlin + KEEP by Android Dialogs
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Episode 32 - 11/3/18

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News
Android P Developer Preview
Framework Fragments and Loaders deprecated.
Are Slices for the Google Assistant?
Blog Posts
Random Musings on the P Developer Preview 1 by Mark Murphy
A Better Way to Launch Activities on Android by Zak Taccardi
Exploring Android P: Display Cutouts by Joe Birch
Tools And Libraries
Support Library 28.0.0 Alpha 1
Kyrie
gradle-dependency-graph-generator-plugin
scrcpy
Android Studio 3.1 RC 1
Android Studio 3.2 Canary 5
Android Emulator 27.1.2
Android Emulator 27.2.0 Canary
Firebase Crashlytics
Android Things Developer Preview 7
Other Stuff
116: Learning Kotlin – inline, noinline, crossinline by Fragmented Podcast
François Blavoet: Custom ViewGroups by Android Dialogs
Episode 16: Tools by The Context
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Episode 31 - 4/3/18

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Blog Posts
A life without ifs by Maria Neumayer
Simplifying DiffUtil with RxJava by Saket Narayan
Make your custom view 60fps in Android by Dmitriy Rabetckiy
Tools And Libraries
Long Shadows
Support Library 27.1.0
Android KTX 0.2
Room 1.1.0-alpha3
Emulator 27.1.12 Canary
Kotlin 1.2.30
Gradle 4.6
Other Stuff
Improving Stability by Reducing Usage of non-SDK Interfaces
#31DaysOfKotin
115: Architecture Components with Akshay Chordiya by Fragmented Podcast
Angella Derington: Teaching RxJava with a Little Game of Thrones by Android Dialogs
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