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
• https://androidexample365.com

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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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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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