Android Developers’s Tweets

Apr 12

📹 All #AppExcellenceSummit sessions are now available! From productivity best practices to leveraging Play Console to find the right devices and users for you, there's so much great content you won't want to miss. Watch on-demand → goo.gle/AES22-yt

Get the info you need to achieve app excellence, reduce crashes, and more in Android vitals! Check out the #AppExcellenceSummit playlist to learn how. → goo.gle/AES22-yt

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#GoogleIO is rapidly approaching! To help prepare for this year's event, we've put together a large screens playlist. Check it out → goo.gle/building-for-l Register today → goo.gle/io22

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Looking for buttery smooth transitions between size changes? 🧈 Use the animatedContentSize() Modifier and ⛓ link it onto your existing content for a polished transition. → goo.gle/3rMnEUi #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 24

Want to add a bit of animated delight to your #JetpackCompose apps? 🆕 Create visibility variable 🎁 Wrap your content in an AnimatedVisibility composable 🪄 Change the visibility value & we will take care of the rest! #30DaysOfCompose → goo.gle/3mxHjUu

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Apr 23

Did you forget? rememberSaveable retains state across configuration changes and activity and process recreation by saving state in a Bundle. If your state doesn't fit the Bundle, Parcelize, mapSaver, and listSaver are here to help! → goo.gle/3s8ailN #30DaysOfCompose

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data class City(val name: String, val country: String) : Parcelable

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fun CityScreen() {
var selectedCity = rememberSaveable {
mutableStateOf(City("Madrid", "Spain"))
}
}

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Apr 23

📈⭐ Baseline Profiles can help you improve jank and startup time. It helped

@googlemaps

improve startup time by 40%! Create profiles for the most critical user journeys to ensure consistently fast performance regardless of whether cloud profiles are available.

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Apr 22

Just waitUntil you read this blog. 👀🤣

@ppvi

covers alternatives to idling resources, how to use the waitUntil test API, and more! → goo.gle/3L9RZUu #JetpackCompose

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Apr 22

Talk about a power couple ❤️ remember and mutableStateOf are frequently used together in Composable functions. There are multiple ways to write this syntax, use the one that’s easiest to read for your use case. → goo.gle/37sR5UN #30DaysOfCompose

Code snippit: val mutableState = remember { mutableStateOf(default) }

var value by remember { mutableStateOf(default) }

val (value, setValue) = remember { mutableStateOf(default) }

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Apr 22

🤩 Build the business case for quality with Google Play Console’s Reach and devices dashboard. Learn how to make the most of the dashboard and more in the #AppExcellenceSummit session. → goo.gle/aes22-quality

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Actions on Google

@ActionsOnGoogle

Oct 28, 2021

App Actions enable your users to say simple voice commands to quickly access your Android app’s functionality. 📲 Sign up for our new #AppActions email series and learn how to add voice commands for your app → goo.gle/3jLX7Td #AndroidDevSummit

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Apr 21

🤌 👋 👍 Make your composables understand your users better by detecting gestures. For example: add Modifier.clickable to your composables e.g. Text or Box, to make them clickable and add a ripple effect. → goo.gle/3MgAnXh #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 21

Good architecture can make or break your app! 🎉 See how

@headspace

and

@duolingo

refactored their apps, leading to more business success in the #AppExcellenceSummit Q&A. → goo.gle/aes22-headspac

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Measure and improve performance with Macrobenchmark

⏳ 📉 Interested in improving app startup or reducing jank? We’ve released first RC of #Jetpack Macrobenchmark that helps developers measure performance and generate Baseline Profiles.

@mlykotom

has the details on how to get started. ↓

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Introduction to Jetpack Macrobenchmark and Baseline Profiles

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🤫 Want to hear a secret? 🤐 PasswordVisualTransformation helps you easily build a password TextField. You can transform, format, and group characters in a TextField by defining your own VisualTransformations. → goo.gle/37o4vRX #30DaysOfCompose

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🤔 How do you measure startup time? Why should app startup performance matter to you?

@Lyft

and

@GoogleMaps

answered these questions and more at #AppExcellenceSummit to improve app performance. Check the Q&A hosted by

@keyboardsurfer

→ goo.gle/aes22-lyft-maps

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😎 Get your game face on for the latest updates from Android and Google Play at I/O. Catch up on recent keynotes, deep dives, and more from the last year with this playlist → goo.gle/3vl3kub 💡 And don't forget to register! → goo.gle/io22

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Apr 19

🌟 Using #JetpackCompose, the

@TwitterDev

engineering team kick-started an overhaul of the app’s UI foundation! Learn more about how Compose helped improve their productivity, and reduce bugs. Read the blog → goo.gle/3vsFmxs Watch the video → goo.gle/3rCVX0e

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developersonair.withgoogle.com

Apr 19

Two more hours! 🕙 Join the Policy Webinar at 10AM PT today to hear about our new Google Play policies, key updates, and dive deep into our Store Listing and Promotions policy. See you soon! ⤵️

Developer Policy Updates April 2022

Here at Google Play, we’re committed to providing a safe and trusted experience for users and developers. Our policies are designed to guide you, ensuring that your apps and mobile games are safely...

Apr 19

💅 You can set multiple styles to your Text with buildAnnotatedString and SpanStyle APIs: paragraph, letterSpacing, font color, weight, and many more! → goo.gle/3Ovu1p0 #30DaysOfCompose

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Android #GDE

has a #MADSkills tip on architecture: “Create one or more separate entities per layer in the project for a clean and scalable model architecture.” See the tip in action → goo.gle/3JNbJvT

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Apr 18

👀 Did someone say product recognition? With ML Kit's Product Recognition API, developers can identify physical supermarket packaged products on-device and in real time. Learn more and join the early access program → goo.gle/3xrvPZO

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Apr 18

*Checks phone AGAIN* More #AppExcellenceSummit content on our YouTube playlist includes: 🌟 Optimizing app performance 🌟 The business case for quality 🌟 And more! → goo.gle/AES22-yt

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Apr 18

Layout Inspector works with #JetpackCompose UI too! 🕵️ Deploy your app to your device, select the Layout Inspector tab inside

@AndroidStudio

, and start exploring all the different attributes of your UI. → goo.gle/3MqaWmn #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 17

🏃‍♀️ Quickly iterating on your designs? Use Live Edit of Literals! Adapt Int, String, Color, Dp, and Boolean values in your code base and directly see your changes in preview, on emulator or physical device. No rebuild is needed! → goo.gle/3vmpfBl #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 16

🔁 Try out different states and gestures of your Composable using Preview's interactive mode in

@AndroidStudio

. Click a Button and see its ripple in action, check and uncheck Checkboxes, and ensure your animations work as expected ✅ → goo.gle/3JN6nQY #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 15

🤔 Need to display a list with many items with large data sets? Try out the #JetpackCompose powerful Lazy layouts API 🦥. It enables emitting a scrollable list of items as they become visible on the screen, rather than all at once. → goo.gle/3uFCLRu #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 15

Run your app with confidence with these

@Firebase

tools: 🔥 Crashlytics 🔥 Performance monitoring 🔥 Test lab Watch the #AppExcellenceSummit session for more → goo.gle/aes22-firebase

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Apr 15

👀 🔍 Looking for other Android devs? Follow our Twitter lists!

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Psst…we have the latest news in Android for you! #NowInAndroid Play Target SDK requirements, architecture, Android TV, Play Academy, game development, and more. 📖 → goo.gle/3vgSHbP 🎧 → goo.gle/36f0luR 📹 → goo.gle/3EiXmhM

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🔨 🧰 Android vitals on Google Play Console has the tools to help you troubleshoot and improve your app quality. Watch to learn how to understand your crashes / ANRs → goo.gle/38tkApj

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🌓 Does your composable work well when using a dark theme? Add a parameter to your Preview to quickly check it out. Set uiMode to UI_MODE_NIGHT_YES to see the dark theme in action! → goo.gle/3LKm4dt #30DaysOfCompose

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Migrating Architecture Blueprints to Jetpack Compose

Migrate on over to the Android blog to learn how our team migrated Architecture Blueprints to Jetpack Compose. 😉🦅

@manuelvicnt

walks you through planning, implementation, and the challenges faced along the way. Read the blog ↓

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How the team planned and implemented the Blueprints migration to Compose, including the challenges we faced!

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Give our report a read to learn more about the economic impact of Google Play in the US ⬇️

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@Android

· Apr 13

The economic impact our app economy made in 2021 was one to remember. Learn more about how the Android app economy, including @GooglePlay, helped create jobs for software engineers, mobile app developers & the teams that support them → goo.gle/3jSugMR #GrowWithGoogle

Google Play business community

@GooglePlayBiz

Apr 7

How app developers are making the most of Google Play billing: 1️⃣ Tailor pricing 2️⃣ Utilize acquisition tools 3️⃣ Leverage insights …and more Read to learn more tips from devs! ↓

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5 ways in which top app developers make the most of Play Billing

Improving reach, retention and relationships with your users

Apr 13

Catch the replay of yesterday's Fireside chat at #AppExcellenceSummit → goo.gle/aes22-livestre We met with Casey Winters, CPO at

@eventbrite

, to discuss how app excellence can lead to business success 🏆 and growth. 🌱

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Apr 13

Material Design 3 type scale naming and grouping have been simplified: 👉🏼 headlineSmall 👉🏽 titleMedium 👉🏾 bodyLarge These styles form a Typography class in Compose Material 3. Learn more → goo.gle/3r6PURg #30DaysOfCompose

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Apr 13

👏🏾👏🏻👏🏽👏🏿 That's a wrap on #AppExcellenceSummit! If you missed the Fireside Chat or haven't had a chance to tune in to the sessions, we've got you covered! Check out all the dev summit videos here → goo.gle/AES22-yt

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