Android Jetpack Weekly #5

Review of the most interesting updates in Android Jetpack libraries

Update in AndroidX for period August 19–24 2019. It was not so huge updates, but:

Room

2.2.0-beta01 (compare to 2.2.0-alpha02)

• Bugfix
• Improvements to works with Coroutines Flow (they are went to stable few days ago)

WorkManager

2.3.0-alpha01 (compare to 2.2.0)

Development of the next version was started. Changes from the first alpha:

• Support of progress in Workers. Use setProgressAsync() in ListenableWorker, suspend setProgress() in CoroutineWorker and setProgress() in RxWorker
• Was added ability to set InputMergerFactory via Configuration
• Data can now be serialized using Data.toByteArray() and Data.fromByteArray()

Media2

1.1.0-rc02 (compare to 1.1.0-rc01)

• Bugfix
• Minor APIs improvements

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