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Automate Dependencies Upgrades With Releases Hub

Automatically keep your Gradle project dependencies up to date

Using more and more dependencies on Gradle projects is a common practice. Keeping your Gradle project dependencies up to date can be a huge manual task if you have a big project. It’s a bit tedious for developers to manually check for dependencies upgrades, causing a lot of waste of time.

Furthermore, developers don’t perform dependencies upgrades as frequently as they should, harming project quality and security.

In particular, Android projects are not an exception. Google offers a lot of official libraries, in some cases with linked versions, like Firebase or Play Services.

The Releases Hub Gradle Plugin helps developers…

Circle CI + Android configuration tips

8 ideas to improve your Circle CI configuration on android projects

1. Define executors for each resource class

Sometimes you need to quickly change the resource class you use on your job’s executor. For example, you could need to do that to measure the performance impact or because you need more memory/CPU.

You can simplify those changes by defining one executor per resource class. Each executor could have for example custom GRADLE_OPTS defined.

references:  android_config: &android_config
    working_directory: "/path"
    docker:
      - image: circleci/android:api-30executors:  android_executor_small:
    <<: *android_config
    resource_class: small
    GRADLE_OPTS: -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=2g"  android_executor_medium:
    <<: *android_config
    resource_class: medium
    GRADLE_OPTS: -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=4g"  android_executor_medium_plus:
    <<: *android_config
    resource_class: medium+
    GRADLE_OPTS: -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx6g -XX:MaxPermSize=6g"

2. Unify Gradle user home path between different docker images

Not all the docker images use the same default user home…

Say bye-bye to Android Jetifier

6 steps to stop using Jetifier and increase your build speed

Jetpack is a set of libraries, tools, and guidance to help you write high-quality apps more easily. Jetpack makes coding easier through best practices, limiting boilerplate code, and simplifying complex tasks. All with the goal of enabling you to focus on the code that you really care about.
AndroidX is the package name for all the libraries within Jetpack. Think of AndroidX as the open-source project used to develop, test, version, and release Jetpack libraries.
Back at I/O 2018, Google announced that Support Library would be refactored into the AndroidX namespace, which was completed with Support Library 28 and the…

Flutter

Summary of official Google development resources

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

This is a summary of all the official development resources distributed across different channels.

Documentation

Source Code

Github

Issue Tracker

Github

Twitter

flutterdev

Samples

Flutter Examples

Medium

Flutter Publication

Youtube

Flutterdev Channel

Codelabs