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Google just unified its entire Android services SDK model. If you've been juggling multiple client classes across Maps, Drive, and Cast APIs, this changes everything.
Dianne Hackborn from the Android framework team reveals a hidden tool that exposes exactly how your app behaves when users aren't looking. Most developers are flying blind on background memory usage.
LinkedIn ships a single mobile binary but runs dozens of A/B tests simultaneously. Here's how they pulled it off without constant app releases.
Deniz Veli from Etsy tackled a problem every Android dev knows: GridView and ListView just don't cut it for complex layouts. So they built their own.
Google just dropped a game-changing update to Play Services that fundamentally shifts how mobile games handle multiplayer and how apps integrate with Drive. This isn't just another SDK update.
Twitch rebuilt their entire video infrastructure while serving millions of concurrent viewers. Here's how they pulled off a zero-downtime migration.
Trevor Johns from Android Developer Relations reveals a breaking change that could silently corrupt encrypted data for apps using Unicode passphrases. If your app uses PBKDF2 key derivation, this affects you.
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.
Dave Burke, Engineering Director for Android Platform, just dropped Android 4.4 KitKat with a game-changing focus: making flagship Android experiences run smoothly on entry-level hardware. Project Svelte proves...
Google just dropped Android 2.2 support to unlock more powerful APIs. Google Play Services 4.0 brings major changes that will affect how you monetize and track users.
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.
Natalia Ukhorskaya from JetBrains shows how Kotlin's seamless Java interop makes adoption frictionless. Just create a .kt file and let IntelliJ do the heavy lifting.
JetBrains made history in 2013 by bringing Kotlin to Android Studio for the first time. This walkthrough from the early days shows just how far Android development has come.
When mobile traffic jumped from 25% to 40% in six months, Etsy knew they had a problem. Their engineers were testing on personal iPhones while users browsed on dozens of different devices.
Twitter built a 2FA system where your private keys never leave your phone and the server stores no persistent secrets. Here's the engineering behind it:
Twitter's iOS team shipped beta builds to employees and discovered crashes that would never show up in testing. The culprit? Jailbroken devices and unprefixed Objective-C categories.
Brian Smith from Dropbox introduced an API in 2013 that promised to make cloud sync feel like working with local files. Developers loved it, but there's a twist.
Signal's team discovered that building encrypted voice calls was easy. Building a VoIP system that actually worked well? That was the hard part.
Christine Tieu from Twitter's Mobile Web Team reveals how they flipped their entire mobile UI for Arabic and Farsi without drowning in duplicate CSS rules.