Modern Android Development

M.A.D - Modern Android Development is a collection of development tools, APIs, language and technologies from the Android Team to help developers create better apps. New to Android and Kotlin, worry not! This session covers what Modern Android Development is and shares resources for you to get easily started.

Google announced that Android is Kotlin First, we’ll deep dive into what this means and how you can take advantage of the Jetpack Libraries to supercharge your Android Development.

This presentation shares the essentials to get started, and also shares my experiences on how to get better and keep improving yourself as Android Developer.

Transcript

1. Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Modern Android Development: M.A.D
2. “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 ”
3. Development
4. Some pain points…💔 • Storing data locally and observing changes • Navigation • Handling lifecycle in Activities and Fragments • Loading infinite lists • Handling background jobs • Performance
5. Enter Jetpack Libraries
6. Why Jetpack? • Follow best practices • Remove boilerplate code • Reduce fragmentation • The APIs work well together
7. Lifecycle ViewModel Room Paging Work Manager Navigation Camerax Material Design Benchmark
9. Compose Highlights • Declarative UI • Powerful and performant • Less code and easy to develop UI • Intuitive
11. And more….
12. And more…. https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/explorer
13. Deployment
14. 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
15. Resources • https://android-developers.googleblog.com/ • https://www.youtube.com/c/AndroidDevelopers • https://codelabs.developers.google.com/
16. Harun Wangereka Android Engineer Apollo Agriculture @wangerekaharun Thank You!