52 articles on Developer Tools for Android performance
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Kotlin's built-in TODO() is great, except it crashes your app in production. Kaushik Gopal built something smarter.
Vishnu Rajeevan from Trello shares how his team went from 0% to 30.8% Kotlin in just over a year. Their strategy? Start with tests, then make every new feature Kotlin-only.
Dima Voronkevych from Bumble's Android team reveals how a simple Handler.postDelayed() call created 7 Activity instances in memory when only 1 should exist. The garbage collector couldn't save them.
Dima Voronkevych from Bumble's Android team reveals how a simple postDelayed() call can silently keep 7 Activity instances alive in memory. Even with garbage collection, your app might be one rotation away from...
Marc Prengemann from mobile.de faced 30,000+ Checkstyle violations in their Android codebase. Instead of grinding to a halt, his team found a smarter way forward.
Abha Gupta from Walmart Global Tech tackles one of Android testing's toughest challenges: running mock servers inside your APK for reliable device farm testing. No external dependencies, no flaky tests.
React Native just solved one of mobile development's most frustrating problems: losing your app state every time you make a code change. Their new Hot Reloading feature keeps your app running while injecting up...
Wayne Piekarski shows how Android Wear notification pages require just ONE extra line of code. Seriously, that's it.
Wayne Piekarski from Google shows how Android Wear notification stacking takes just a few lines of code. This 2014 developer preview tutorial remains a masterclass in API simplicity.
Google just open-sourced a physics engine with fluid simulation and made Unity integration dead simple. If you're building mobile games, December 2013 brought some serious firepower to your toolkit.
Scott Main and David Braun from Android just changed the rules for SMS apps. If you're using hidden APIs, your messaging app will silently fail on KitKat.
Greg Hartrell from Google's Play Games team just dropped three major updates that give game developers unprecedented visibility into player behavior and double their cloud storage capacity.