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So I was browsing through this sub like I do everyday, and I came across profile of a person who seems like is a Google employee? Or maybe subcontractor? Or pretending like one? A troll? Or whatever. I don't care.

Here's a few posts and comments by the person.

TLDR; Basically saying here f#ck indie devs because they pull revenue from well established companies

TLDR; Seems like trying to get the feedback?

And then I saw interesting comments made by this person, which claim there's "Indexing hold" by Google (problem where new apps aren't getting indexed by Play Store).

TLDR; Only devs who cannot provide profit are cucked by Google

TLDR; Another instance of the person claiming f#ck the devs who don't make profits for Play Store

TLDR; Use Admob and IAP to generate revenue for Google to get your app indexed

And there's a bunch of stuff said by this person which is bugging me. If this is true, it has serious potential to cuck google, or it's just another troll. Someone seriously needs to look into this. Here's the link to the profile: u/IAPHero

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From java to android

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:58 AM PST

So I just finished java syntax with OOP understanding from both books and online tutorials, so my case is that I got into programming about 4 months ago, so now after I finished the basics what should I do, everyone is telling me to make my own project just anything to practice the foundations that I just studied, but how? I really don't know I'm so new to this, should I study another framework? Should I go to Android? Should I go to JavaFX? I'm so confused and I started the Udacity tutorial Android with java and I feel like it's so different from programming that I studied and it's like a ready baked code that I have to memorize not understand, should I go through something first before I get to Android? any tips?

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FragmentPagerAdapter: How can I preload fragments while also not storing their views once out of the offScreenPageLimit?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 01:38 AM PST

I'm dealing with an app with multiple tabs and I would like to prefetch the fragments on [a reasonable amount of tabs] to have the transition between tabs be smooth. However I do not want to store the views of the tabs that go out of bounds of the offScreenPageLimit.

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[Question] google play number of downloads disappeared

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:56 AM PST

I recently published a game and my download count was growing quite rapidly since day 1 since i promoted it amongst friends and also ran a few ad campains. It hit 1000 in playstore console in 5 day mark and previously it showed 500+ downloads in the playstore app but since this morning it went back down to 100+. But the console says 1.1k. Is this normal? will i ever get those stats back? thank you.

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Getting back into Android and advice on internship?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:31 AM PST

Basically I was the typical self taught dev who hopped around with new technologies and I've found myself wanting to leave web development to get back into Android. I've only done freelance work for web for many clients and I have one Android app that fetches an API for cryptocurrency that displays the most current prices. Good UI but the overall architecture was probably shit. I understand the basics of OOP but I have an eye for design.

A company near me offers internships for mobile, web & other things. A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn wanting to get me in for an Android job but it's senior level. Should I go for their internship? I figured since I have no "industry" experience I might as well get in somewhere. To expand, I'm 29 and I am hoping this doesn't reflect poorly on the fact that I haven't entered the industry yet.

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To anyone that also knows iOS, what are the job prospects like for knowing both?

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:03 PM PST

I'm gonna be graduating in the spring and I'll be an Android dev. I've done Android for a few years with 2 internships related to Android.

I'm considering picking up iOS but not sure if it'll actually help me in my career. To people that know both, do you get to use the knowledge of both in your job or are you usually just responsible for one.

More importantly, do you feeling knowing/doing both contributes to a higher compensation or career progression.

Edit: to clarify, this is not referring to cross platform. This is native development for both platforms

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Why doesn't android grant you the access to control what the OS is doing?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:30 AM PST

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Buy Google Play Developer Accounts

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:25 AM PST

I see that many of us are victims of Google's noob employees and their policies.

I want to share with you the measures I use to keep my new developer accounts active.

A few months ago I found someone who orphaned the Google Play Developer account. They're kind of expensive but I've been working well with them.

What I do is I use the accounts I buy him along with some measurements.

-Change the ip, minimum for each Google Play account login.

-Do not sign in to any Google Play service in the same browser or ip as the Google Play account.

-Adjust the privacy of your browser so that it does not steal any of your data.

-Erase all data from your browser usually and more when you change your google play account.

-Never use Google Chrome.

-Be care with logging in to services like gmail, youtube, etc, at the same IP address or same PC.

Accounts claim to have these features:

New dedicated IP
Never used Before
Purchase by new dedicated card and new dedicated phone number
Verified Account
Created by new system
First login guarantee

To buy them I contact:

[playaccounts@protonmail.com](mailto:playaccounts@protonmail.com)

They use a Swiss mail service in which communication is secure.

I leave this in case it can be of help to someone. If you can contribute more, comment. Thank you.

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Google's indexing "Bug" also responsible for large number of app and account terminations?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:50 AM PST

After taking a look at a ton of posts, i was wondering if anyone has looked to see if there was a c=correlation between the indexing "bug" that is supposedly fixed and the large amount of app terminations and suspensions. I noticed a lot of apps where removed for metadata, which, is part of the indexing. We had a few apps suspended for weird words like video and 25$ dollars. One of them was a craigslist app, which seems strange since there are craigslist apps out there still.

Here is where they use to reside:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mtph.clmobile&hl=en_IE

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.buysellnow.app&hl=en_IE

Just a thought

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Fully scalable layout for app

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:37 AM PST

First of all, this probably isn't the right sub judging by the rules, but I'll try to keep this general enough to not break rule #2.

What would the best way be to implement a fully scaling layout for an activity, which keeps the aspect ratio of everything within it?For example: Having 4 buttons, 2 in the first row, 2 in the second. All buttons have the same width/height and gap between them. When using a ConstraintLayout you can make the buttons themself keep their aspect ratio, but not the gap between them (which is set in dp as a constraint). When the screenwidth increases, the buttons grow, but the gaps stay the same.

What would be the way to go to achieve something like this?Also, what's the proper place to post this question?

Edit:

https://imgur.com/a/zMRx0pa this is what my mockup looks like.

The ratio of all buttons should be the same. The horizontal gap should be x% of the button width. The vertical gap should be exactly the same as the horizontal gap. I would prefer a scalable (meaning, the less code the better) approach as similar stuff needs to be repeated across many activities

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Good practices when starting a new Android Studio project

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:00 AM PST

Every time I start a new project in Android Studio , I go to github in order to copy the .gitignore file from there. That content gets pasted into my local .gitignore file.

It has to be a simpler way but I don't know how to:

change de default gitignre of the Android Studio - or -
to execute a command line which downloads a certain file from the github

ps: I'm using a Win10 machine with the MinGW bash installed by the git setup.

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Question regarding Banner ad placement

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:57 AM PST

Just a quick question, Would this not be against policy?

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Emulator 29.3.0 Stable

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 09:16 AM PST

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Question: How can I set Android Studio to always create new projects in a specific path?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 12:50 AM PST

It seems that after each time I import some project , the IDE puts new projects into the new path of the imported project.

How can I change it, so that it will remember to always use the same path?

Why does it even change all the time? It doesn't make sense...

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Where do I start?

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 12:41 AM PST

I'm in college and pursuing computer science degree. As of now, I have taken lower level Java programming courses but I want to build android apps as a pet project. Where do I start?

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List of MVVMs?

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 01:10 PM PST

Have there been any concept examples of having a list of MVVMs? That is, using MVVM at an individual list item level inside a recycler view, rather than the usual MVVM only governing the screen level.

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In MVVM architecture, what is the proper way to update a MutableLiveData object?

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 03:48 PM PST

Say I have

MutableLiveData<myObject> m; m.postValue(myObject(param1, param2))

Then a few seconds later a sever response comes in that should change param2

Do I just do:

m.postValue(myObject(param1, param2))

which essentially creates a new instance of myObject?

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Dear Developers if given a situation where spam apps where pulling revenue from established developers, how would you handle the problem? More information inside

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 11:48 PM PST

OK if placed in the situation where you are in charge of Googleplay store and these series of events occurred, how would you handle them.

Over the course of a 2 year span, duplicate and spam apps have slowly pulled traffic away from larger well known established companies. Also non-Spam origonal apps that are direct competition are also cutting into profits. The established companies are forced to increase thier paid advertising while also having thier profits decrease.

The established companies start complaining to you that profits are lower and costs are rising. They tell you to get rid of spam and duplicate apps. They also request certain keywords to be banned even if the keyword is a commonly used word, that way non-Spam original apps will not show up on the same search results . The established companies make it clear that they have consulted with each other and will leave the Googleplay store and bring thier business to a competitors store, who takes far less cut of profits.

How would you keep the established companies and still cater to indie developer s?What steps would you take?

I thank you for reading and look forward to your input. Every post is very important and I look forward to reading your suggestions.

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Googleplay developers blog detailing the major change in review system plus other changes

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:16 AM PST