Hello. My name is Kirill Rozov, and if you are interested in Android development, then most likely you have heard about the Android ResId Telegram channel with daily news for Android developers. Modern mobile applications are already quite serious enterprise projects that are developed by hundreds of developers, contain…

The Google I/O’21 conference took place, and we learned absolutely everything about the new version of Android, and we can also try it all in Beta 1, which we can install on the Pixel, and other manufacturers also allow you to install the GSI image. The main emphasis in…

Choosing a device is never easy as it is, but the new Apple Silicon SoCs for Mac have given the market a good shake and made the choice even harder. Which MacBook should I buy? How different are they? It’s hard to figure out. …

Simplify usage of Android View Binding with Kotlin Property Delegates and solve behavior of Fragment’s ViewLifecycleOwner — View Binding is a new feature in Android Studio 3.6, but this isn’t true at all. View Binding is a lighter variant of Android Data Binding. Why do we need View Binding? The answer is performance. Many developers useAndroid Data Binding only to have reference to views from Layout XML…

Autofill 1.0.0, CoordinatorLayout 1.1.0 and a lot of new RC/Betas — When the attention of Android developers was focused on Kotlin Conf. But Google released new updates in Android Jetpack. New Stable Releases Autofill 1.0.0 The library is small. It contains only constants for autofill hint. You can find new constants in HintConstants class. More about autofill can be found here. Coordinator Layout 1.1.0

Benchmark Stable, ViewPager2 Stable, and next RecyclerView — The last week gave us the first stable releases of new libraries, new major releases of existing libraries. New libraries Benchmark 1.0.0 Benchmark is a library that allows you to write a performance benchmark of app code and get results. It handles all device configurations issues, stabilizes performance and etc. …

How to inject dependencies into Android Components constructors with Dagger 2 — Kotlin is a beautiful language but I don’t like one thing from it — lateinit. Why? lateinit is a result of limitations that came from Android components. The most popular usage of the keyword in Android is injecting in properties with Dagger 2 from Activity.onCreate() or Fragment.onAttach(). The…

Experimental annotation, Biometric & Webkit are stable — Hi! A new week and new updates! Let’s go to find out what’s new in Jetpack on this week: New Stable Libraries Annotation-Experimental 1.0.0 The first stable release of the new library that helps make youк code better. Do you know about Kotlin’s @Experimenal annotation? The purpose of it is to mark not the final…

News in Android Jetpack October 21–27, 2019 Last week was the week of Android Dev Summit (October 22–23). On the first day were announced many RC updates. The updates give us More integrations with Kotlin Coroutines Save state in View Model Improved animations support ViewPager 2 — ViewPager on top…