Modern Android Development

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Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Modern Android Development: M.A.D

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“Development Tools, APIs, language and distribution technologies recommended by the Android team to help developers be productive and create better apps that run across billions of devices ”

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Development

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Some pain points…💔 ● Storing data locally and observing changes ● Navigation ● Handling lifecycle in Activities and Fragments ● Loading infinite lists ● Handling background jobs ● Performance

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Enter Jetpack Libraries

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Why Jetpack? ● Follow best practices ● Remove boilerplate code ● Reduce fragmentation ● The APIs work well together

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Lifecycle ViewModel Room Paging Work Manager Navigation Camerax Material Design Benchmark

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Compose Highlights ● Declarative UI ● Powerful and performant ● Less code and easy to develop UI ● Intuitive

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And more….

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And more…. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/explorer

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Deployment

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Android 13 Focus is more on: ● Security & Privacy ○ Permissions for Notifications ○ Improved Permissions on Nearby Devices ○ Privacy Protecting Photo Picker ● Developer Productivity ○ New copy paste ui ○ Predictable back behaviour ○ Themed Icons ○ Easier support for app specific language settings

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Resources ● https://android-developers.googleblog.com/ ● https://www.youtube.com/c/AndroidDevelopers ● https://codelabs.developers.google.com/

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Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Thank You!