Good news, everyone! Microsoft introduces the new multiplatform framework .NET MAUI. It works on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows and is built on top of Xamarin.Forms.
 
#microsoft #dotnet #maui

Check out the current state of Project Loom (lightweight threads, "virtual threads" as they call them) in Java.
 
#java #loom #coroutine

Fun, fun, fun! A lot of Android apps were exposing user data through Firebase!
 
#firebase #cybersec

A short post on using post and postDelayed to remind you that there is also the removeCallbacks method and a thing called ViewTreeObserver.
 
#view #handler

@themishkun shared with us a controversial post that perfectly matches this channel. Author tried to make a few changes to a project that wasn't being maintained for some time. In an instant Gradle and Android Studio drove him mad.
 
#ide #studio #gradle

@YonatanLevin shared with us something absolutely beautiful. Check out this StackOverflow thread about the Duplicate class ...ListenableFuture found in modules guava-... issue and the top voted answer.
 
#google #library #guava

One-liner: Google Play Billing Library version 3 is out.
 
#google #play #billing

Good one: a story of an R8 rule that stripped out Object.notify and completely broke an app.
 
#r8 #bug

I can't help but share this link: ask me anything with SpaceX software team on Reddit. Lots of interesting stuff: e.g. for state management they use Redux model outside the UI layer.
 
#software #programming #spacex

As a follow-up on yesterday's post @Shipaaaa shared a link on this Twitter thread. Former Tesla employee (NDA has expired) posted a bunch of disturbing details on how things worked at his time.
 
#software #tesla

The story of improving OkHttp connections reuse by implementing .equals on SSLSocketFactory and reusing it's instances.
 
#okhttp #network #performance

Uncle Linus respectfully disagreed on limiting Linux kernel code lines with 80 characters.
 
#linux #kernel #terminal

A post with some details on how the Benchmark library tries to improve the result accuracy. It's not really deep, but it's something.
 
#jetpack #benchmark

Check out this long read about the no code approach. You'll find good and bad cases, useful tools and some examples of automation.
 
#nocode

Paging 3 library is out in the alpha channel. Updates include list separators support and filter / map operators.
The strange thing here is the following highlight: "Automatically requests the correct next page when the user scrolls to the end of the loaded data". I thought this whole library is about it and it should work correctly from day one.
 
#jetpack #paging #library

@MightySeal shared with us a link on an AMA thread with Android Studio engineering team. It'll start on July 30, you still have plenty of time to post your questions.
 
#ama #studio #ide

Good news, everyone! Looks like Jetpack development is at the beginning of migration to GitHub. For now they're accepting PRs for Room and WorkManager.
 
#jetpack #library #github

Don't forget to bump your targed SDK version to 29, it's required for app updates starting from November 2nd. Thanks to @istima for the reminder.
 
#play #target #sdk

Wow! Looks like Huawei has passed Samsung in devices shipment in Q2 2020 and is now No. 1 supplier of smartphones in the world.
 
#samsung #huawei #manufacturer

Intellij IDEA 2020.2 is out. There are a lot of fancy features, but full GitHub pull requests support is the most long-awaited one for sure!
 
#intellij #studio #ide

Finally, Google introduced In-App Review API. Now users can publish reviews on Play directly from your app.
 
#google #library #review