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Authors: Andreas M. Antonopoulos | Gavin Wood Ph. D.

Publisher: ‎ O’Reilly Media

Edition: 1st edition (November 13, 2018)

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If you’re looking to get started with the Ethereum protocol — or are among the many open source developers, integrators, and system administrators already working with this platform — Mastering Ethereum is the definitive book on the topic.

Ethereum represents the gateway to a worldwide, decentralized computing paradigm. This platform enables you to run…

Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) is an API that you can use to develop lightweight compiler plugins. KSP provides a simplified compiler plugin API that leverages the power of Kotlin while keeping the learning curve at a minimum. Compared to KAPT, annotation processors that use KSP can run up to 2x faster.

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• Quickstart

Source Code

• Github

Issue Tracker

• Github

Slack

• #ksp channel in the…

Github Actions has lots of useful third-party actions to help you to improve your productivity. One of them isLabeler, which lets you easily add automatic labels to your pull requests.

Let’s explore this Github Action and see how we can use it to automatically add some useful labels to your PRs.

Configuration

To start using the Labeler Github Action, you need to create the.github/workflows/labeler.yml file with the following content:

On the .github/labeler_config.yml file you can define the action configuration.

Now, let's explore some interesting use cases for this Github Action.

Diff Size Labels

As a pull request reviewer, sometimes you don’t have enough…

Learn some best practices when using custom traces on Firebase Performance Monitoring for Android.

Custom Traces

Performance Monitoring collects traces to help you monitor the performance of your app. A trace is a report of performance data captured between two points in time in your app.

You can create your own traces to monitor performance data associated with specific code in your app. With a custom code trace, you can measure how long it takes your app to complete a specific task or a set of tasks, for example loading a set of images or querying your database.

Creating custom traces is…

Firebase Performance Monitoring is a service that helps you to gain insight into the performance characteristics of your iOS, Android, and web apps.

You use the Performance Monitoring SDK to collect performance data from your app, then review and analyze that data in the Firebase console. Performance Monitoring helps you to understand in real time where the performance of your app can be improved so that you can use that information to fix performance issues

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Analysis of the different alternatives to measure the App Startup time on Android apps.

Users expect apps to be responsive and fast to load. An app with a slow start time doesn’t meet this expectation and can be disappointing to users. This sort of poor experience may cause a user to rate your app poorly on the Play store, or even abandon your app altogether.

Before start talking about how to measure the App Startup time (AKA launch time or launch performance), you probably want to understand deeply the topic. …

Users expect apps to be responsive and fast to load. An app with a slow start time doesn’t meet this expectation, and can be disappointing to users. This sort of poor experience may cause a user to rate your app poorly on the Play store, or even abandon your app altogether.

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• Android Vitals App startup time
• App Startup…

Android Studio is Android’s official IDE. It is purpose-built for Android to accelerate your development and help you build the highest-quality apps for every Android device.

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Android Developers Blog

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