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Apr 21

Get the latest news in the world of Android! Android Studio Flamingo is stable, Android 14 is in Beta 1, Kotlin DSL is the default for new Gradle builds, and more. 📖 → goo.gle/40qRoo8 🎧 → goo.gle/41Luklf 📹 → goo.gle/3GXxSZG #NowInAndroid

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KotlinConf 2023: A Look at the Opening Keynote | The Kotlin Blog

🎉 KotlinConf 2023 has just started with the opening keynote! Check out the main announcements in our blog post ⤵️

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At the KotlinConf 2023 opening keynote, the JetBrains team made several exciting announcements regarding recent developments in the Kotlin language.

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Apr 20

Does your app have an engaging sound experience? 🎧 Spatial audio helps your content sound more realistic to users by putting them in the middle of the action. 🏃 Learn how to implement the feature in your app ↓

Delivering an immersive sound experience with Spatial Audio

Read on to learn more about Android’s support for spatial audio and how to implement the feature in your app.

Apr 19

Create complex shapes with the new AndroidX library :graphics:graphics-shapes:! The library allows for easy creation and rendering of rounded polygonal shapes. Read the blog for more → goo.gle/3opJ2ju

A sample of shapes that can be created with this library. Shapes are varied in points, roundness, and ridges

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Apr 19

Apps = small businesses. Proud to see that

@GooglePlay

helped American businesses generate $701 billion in economic activity in their local communities in 2022. Learn more → goo.gle/40hGOA4 #GrowWithGoogle

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Apr 19

Small businesses are core to our communities and the American economy. With a little help from Google tools and products, American businesses generated $701 billion of economic activity in 2022. See how → goo.gle/40hGOA4 #GrowWithGoogle

A group of small business owners stand together in a group. In the front row, there is a pilot, craft artisan, two tea shop owners, a fisherman, a woman on a laptop, a photographer, two clothing designers, two clocksmiths, two bakers, and two farmers.

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Apr 18

Sometimes a few Compose APIs can solve the same issue, like vertically aligning a text in a two line height container using "Text," "TextMeasurer," "TextLayoutResult," etc. Read

@astamatok

's blog to explore each option & find out which one we picked! → goo.gle/3mQZE37

Design requirement we want to build: "Hola mundo!" in a blue block on a single line. "Hola mundo! Text is a central piece of any..." on a red block on two lines.

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Apr 17

📱 Want your app to run smoothly for users? Monitor performance! Issues like animation jank and high memory usage can impact user experience and ratings.

@androidstudio

profileable builds can accurately measure Android performance 👉 goo.gle/3UfOOyX

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Apr 17

Compose's Pointer Input now has better performance and executes lazily! Do you write your own gesture detectors or use Modifier.pointerInput() directly? If so, check out → goo.gle/3MMdz55 Otherwise, get the changes for free when you bump to 1.5.0-alpha02 or later.

Improvements and Changes to Compose’s Pointer Input

We’ve finished refactoring Modifier.pointerInput{ … } to use the new Modifier.Node implementation. A majority of you should see improvements

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CameraX CameraProvider basics

Learn how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s ProcessCameraProvider class 🌟 → goo.gle/41kXpnt We're covering the basics, setup, permissions, and more in the CameraX Foundations series. Tune in to learn how to use CameraX in your app. 📷

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This video explains how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s ProcessCameraProvider class. This video is part of the CameraX Foundations serie...

Bring your IOT apps to cars! 🚗 You can now allow users to easily manage internet of things systems like home security and doors directly from their car for both Android Auto and Android Automotive OS. Learn more → goo.gle/3MI6uCy

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Compose and coroutines work great together, but you need to avoid certain patterns when combining them. In this talk we're looking at common pitfalls, why and how they cause problems, and patterns or APIs should be used instead at

. Tune in → goo.gle/3ZY5QUH

Avoiding common coroutine mistakes in Compose session tile with Márton Braun, Android developer relations engineer at Google

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Next up at

we're preventing data races in async coroutines! It’s deceivingly easy to introduce race conditions into coroutines running asynchronously. Learn how to detect and prevent race conditions: static analysis and TSAN → goo.gle/3ZY5QUH

Preventing data races in async coroutines speaker tile with Kevin Bierhoff, Kotlin team lead

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⚡ Tune in at 1:00 PM CEST for a lightning session at

→ goo.gle/3ZY5QUH We'll look at how to safely propagate traces in hybrid Java Executor/Kotlin Coroutine JVM programs using ThreadLocals.

Tracing Coroutines in the JVM session tile with Tyson Henning, software engineer at Google

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We're back for Day 2 of

! Check out the schedule and make sure to tune in → goo.gle/3ZY5QUH

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What's new in

Flamingo version 2022.2.1? 🌟 Improvements for building UI 🌟 New debug and inspect features 🌟 And more! Download on the stable channel → goo.gle/43AlOYe

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Thanks for tuning into day 1 of

developers.googleblog.com

! Check out the Google KotlinConf'23 recap for details on all of the announcements we made about Kotlin Multiplatform, the compiler, and more! Make sure to tune in tomorrow for day 2 of KotlinConf↓

Google at KotlinConf ‘23

We are really excited to be a gold level sponsor for KotlinConf again this year. If you’re attending in person, you can also visit us at our booth.

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Android Studio Flamingo is now stable! 🎉 🦩 This version brings updates to UI tools like Live Edit, build tools like one-click automated profileable build and run, and more. Get the details and download the latest version → goo.gle/3munGko

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🔔 Don’t miss the chance to meet the

@Google

and

teams, awesome KotlinConf’23 Gold Partners! It’s their fourth year helping us make #KotlinConf a great learning and networking event. Check the booth schedule and swing by to chat with them!

Explore Kotlin Multiplatform Library for benchmarking and tracing! 🧗 We're covering how to effectively integrate with platform specific toolkits, infrastructure, and Swift interop at

. Don't miss our last Googler-led session of the day! → goo.gle/413iVgT

Adventures building a Kotlin Multiplatform Benchmarking Library session tile with Rahul Ravikumar, software engineer at Google

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We're discussing building a

@kotlin

Multiplatform benchmarking library at

NOW → goo.gle/3KX2uNk Tune in to learn: 📱 Techniques for refactoring code 🔑 Key features of Kotlin Multiplatform ➕ And more

Kotlin Multiplatform Conversions at Android Jetpack Scale session tile with Dustin Lam, Software engineer at Google and James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google

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Time for a lightning session at

! ⚡ Sharing multiplatform business logic enables Google Workspace to deliver consistent experiences. Learn more about why Google Workspace is investing in Kotlin Multiplatform→ goo.gle/40W6K5j

Kotlin Multiplatform in Google Workspace session tile with Jason Parachoniak, software engineer at Google

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= modern, reactive, and productive! Join us 11:15 CEST at

to learn how Spring & Kotlin fit together with coroutines, Testcontainers, and Kotlin/JS for the web UI. Come for Kotlin, stay for the ASCII art! → goo.gle/3o0YkuK

Session: Spring + Kotlin = Modern + Reactive + Productive session title with James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google and Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware

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Tune in at 10:15 CEST for "Adopting

@kotlin

at Google scale" on the

livestream! → goo.gle/4168QQ0 We're discussing why Kotlin is now the recommended programming language for Android programming and server-side JVM usage at Google. 😎 ✨

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Kotlin DSL is becoming the default for building new Android apps! We've been working with the

@gradle

and

@jetbrains

teams on this improvement, and can't wait for you to see it. Learn more about Kotlin DSL → goo.gle/3Ux2XsG #KotlinConf

Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds

Today we're excited to announce that we're switching the default language for build scripts to Kotlin! We've been working with the Gradle and JetBrain

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🔴 We're live at

! Tune in now for the keynote featuring Google's very own Grace Kloba. Then, stay tuned for sessions throughout today and tomorrow. Watch here → goo.gle/3zxST9q

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We love to see it! Thanks for sharing,

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Apr 7

Really, why not using collectAsStateWithLifecycle()

It collects values only if a lifecycle-aware component is started. And saves the app resources.

repeatOnLifecycle(state = STARTED) is under the hood. Thanks, Nick #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev closetalk.app

Apr 12

Ease the configuration of the test environment for Android App Links so they can be verified efficiently 😎 We cover how to create a domain to deploy the assetlinks.json file and 2 ways to verify Android App Links in the blog ↓

Android App Links: Deploy assetlinks.json in minutes

Goal: Provide an efficient way to deploy your Google Digital Asset Links (DAL) file in order to ease the verification process for Android…

Apr 12

Today we're releasing the first Beta of #Android14! Whether you're an early adopter or an app developer, you can now sign up to get the Beta via OTA on your supported #Pixel device. Learn more and get started ↓

We've been making progress refining the features and stability of Android 14 to open the experience up to both developers and early-adopters.

Android 14 Beta 1

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Ready for a

adventure? Tune in tomorrow, April 13 at 9 AM CEST for the keynote! Our session "Adventures building a Kotlin Multiplatform Benchmarking Library" goes live at 4:15 PM CEST, so make sure to set a reminder 🔔 ↓

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KotlinConf’23 - Keynote

Recording brought to you by American Express. https://americanexpress.io/kotlin-jobsJetBrains proudly welcomes you to KotlinConf'23You can read the keynote's...

Android App Links implementation in a few steps: 1 - Create an Empty Compose Activity 2 - Update Manifest 3 - Update Android App Link logic 4 - Obtain the certificate fingerprint 5 - Upload assetlinks.json file 6 - Verify Android App Link Get the code ↓

Android App Links implementation in a few steps!

Here are the steps to support an Android App Link. These steps create a basic application that displays the Intent information from an App…

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How to prep your app build for the

@androidstudio

Flamingo release → goo.gle/3GzykgH 1️⃣ Move package from manifest to namespace property 2️⃣ Verify R classes 3️⃣ Enable BuildConfig judiciously 4️⃣ Enable aidle and RenderScript judiciously 5️⃣ Check keep rules

5 ways to prepare your app build for Android Studio Flamingo release

When you upgrade to Android Studio Flamingo and Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 8.0, you need to update your app build files to accommodate…

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The Jetpack Multiplatform Collections and DataStore libraries are moving from experimental developer previews to alpha releases! Learn what’s new in Jetpack Multiplatform ↓

What's new in multiplatform Jetpack libraries

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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CameraX CameraController basics

Get started with CameraX and CameraController 📸 You'll learn how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s LifecycleCameraController class. Watch the video ↓

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This video explains how to implement Preview and ImageCapture with CameraX’s LifecycleCameraController class. This video is part of the CameraX Foundations s...

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Apr 10

Don't get yourself in a bind, tune into our session "Untangling Coroutine Testing" at

🪢😉 We’ll cover new testing guidance, look at Android-specific problems you might face, and learn best practices and patterns. Get ready for the event → kotlinconf.com

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