Summary of official android development resources for Chrome OS
Android developers can distribute apps on Chromebooks through the Google Play Store.
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Android Developers Blog
2019
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Google Developers Blog
2020
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Medium
2020
2019
Summary of official android development resources for Foldables
Android 10 (API level 29) adds more support for foldable devices.
Unfolding a device to provide a larger screen can have a positive impact on usability:
- A larger screen usually means a more immersive experience
- With multi-window mode, users can multi-task
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- Large screens app quality
- Get started with large screens
- Design your apps for foldables
- Support for foldables
Android Developers Blog
2021
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Material Design Blog
2021
Medium
2021
Summary of official android development resources for Android Tablets
The larger screen space on tablets gives you opportunities to display richer content, enable multitasking, and create unique experiences not available on phones.
Because Android devices come in all shapes and sizes, design your app with flexible layouts that gracefully adapt to whatever screen the app is running on. Don’t define your layouts with rigid dimensions that assume a certain screen size, aspect ratio, or orientation.
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Summary of official android development resources for Wear OS
With Wear OS, you can write apps that help users live more present, healthy, and productive lives. As more people use smartwatches, there are more opportunities to feature your apps on smaller screens.
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- Wear OS
- Wear OS app quality
- Get started with Wear OS
- Distribute to Wear OS
- Wear OS Release Notes
- Wear Library
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Android Developers Blog
2021
2020
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Summary of official android development resources for Biometrics
One method of protecting sensitive information or premium content within your app is to request biometric authentication, such as using face recognition or fingerprint recognition.
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Android Developers Blog
2020
2019
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Medium
2020
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Codelabs
Summary of official android development resources for Android TV & Google TV
If you’ve got an Android app or game, Android TV can bring it to your users in their living room. Android TV apps use the same architecture as those for phones and tablets. This approach means you can build new TV apps based on what you already know about building apps for Android, or extend your existing apps to also run on TV devices.
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Learn some best practices when using Crashlytics custom keys and log messages
Firebase Crashlytics provides two important tools to log some extra information about your crashes and non-fatal issues: custom keys and logs messages. Let’s learn some good practices about them.
Custom Keys
Custom keys help you get the specific state of your app leading up to a crash or non-fatal. You can associate arbitrary key/value pairs with your crash reports, then use the custom keys to search and filter crash reports in the Firebase console.
You can read the official documentation here.
// Set a key to a string.
FirebaseCrashlytics.getInstance().setCustomKey("str_key", "hello")
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Blockchain Bubble or Revolution: The Future of Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrencies
How to fail your Gradle build on certain Kotlin warnings
Kotlin warnings are very useful for developers. They help to clean up the code and even fix potential bugs.
This is how they look on the Gradle output:
w: /Users/dipien/android-sample/app/src/main/java/com/dipien/sample/MainActivity.kt: (16, 7): Variable ‘unused’ is never usedIt’s very important to fix them, in order to improve the quality of your code.
By default, Gradle builds don’t fail when finding a Kotlin warning. This is bad because developers can just ignore those warnings.
There is a way to configure the Kotlin compiler to make it fail on each warning. Just…
Summary of official android development resources for Android for Cars
Build apps that help users connect on the road through Android Automotive OS and Android Auto. Users who have a vehicle with Android Automotive OS can install your app onto their vehicle’s infotainment system. Android Auto lets users connect their phone (Android 5.0 or higher) to a compatible vehicle to display a driver-optimized version of your app directly on the console.
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