Weekly Digest
Aug 31 - Sep 6, 2020
2 articles that week
Wednesday, Sep 2
Data Storage Best Practices with Jetpack
Florina Muntenescu and Rohit Sathyanarayana from Google reveal why SharedPreferences has been secretly blocking your UI thread and causing ANRs. Their solution? Jetpack DataStore, a complete reimagining of Android data storage.
Tuesday, Sep 1
Android GPU Inspector: Open Beta Release
Jay Kong from Google's Gaming and Graphics team just opened the beta for Android GPU Inspector, and early results are impressive. Diablo Immortal cut vertex bandwidth by 45%, while Crash Bandicoot slashed frame times from 16ms to 8ms.