Android Developer
As most folks, I've picked up a bunch of intuitions and best practices on testing over the years, but I didn't have deeply structured thoughts on where the advice and intuitions came from.
Two things that nailed this for me:
1) @GeePawHill 's content on leading technical change (I just attended his live course, highly recommend!)
2) Re reading the testing chapters from the book "Software Engineering at Google". Content available for free at: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
It's finally happening!
With the GitHub Actions runner releases this week (https://github.blog/2024-01-17-github-hosted-runners-double-the-power-for-open-source/) the default, non-large Linux runners now seem to all support KVM, which means you can replace using macOS runners to run emulators on CI by following these steps: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-23-hardware-accelerated-android-virtualization-on-actions-windows-and-linux-larger-hosted-runners/ (that blog refers to the large Linux runners specifically, but now those steps work on the non-large ones too!)
And as a bonus, the Linux ones appear to be way faster.
Introducing 💠Haze, a glass-like blur modifier for Compose (Jetpack & Multiplatform).
Still early days, but I really like the immersive-ness that can be achieved by using it on utility UI (like toolbars). Let me know what you think.
I wrote about my experience at droidcon Kenya #dcke23
https://etonotieno.hashnode.dev/my-experience-at-droidcon-kenya-2023
Oh man, Egor wrote about code review: https://www.egorand.dev/the-big-o-of-code-reviews/
Egor's one of the best PR reviewers I've ever worked with. Go read this!
It's so very cool to get completion like this, not just when editing a build file normally, but even in the middle of a merge conflict resolution
Turns out #gradle using exceptions for control flow was costing AndroidX 110 seconds https://www.liutikas.net/2023/03/09/The-Catch-With-Exceptions.html
The recording of my talk "Measuring and Improving Performance" from #dcnyc23 is now available!
Using Continuous Integration is best practice in software engineering. We just published a guide to help you with the basics.
https://developer.android.com/training/testing/continuous-integration
New article: A script to compare two Macrobenchmarks runs
https://blog.p-y.wtf/a-script-to-compare-two-macrobenchmarks-runs
#AndroidDev #performance #benchmark #macrobenchmark #Android
I'm starting a deep dive series on ANR internals.. we'll start off easy with looking at how clicks get dispatched through the view hierarchy / compose UI.
https://blog.p-y.wtf/anr-internals-touch-dispatching-through-the-view-hierarchy
Want to create a Bitmap from your Composable? We've added new functionality to Compose to be able to redirect rendering into android.graphics.Picture, which can then be used to create a Bitmap and share it ✨
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/graphics/draw/modifiers#composable-to-bitmap
🤯 Still blows my mind how easy it is to call native APIs from #KotlinMultiplatform
In this PR, I delegate to a native iOS 'bottom sheet' with a UIDatePicker, all written in Kotlin, and driven from Compose.
