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    Android Dev - App Feedback Thread - August 29, 2020


    App Feedback Thread - August 29, 2020

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 05:28 AM PDT

    This thread is for getting feedback on your own apps.

    Developers:

    • must provide feedback for others
    • must include Play Store, GitHub, or BitBucket link
    • must make top level comment
    • must make effort to respond to questions and feedback from commenters
    • may be open or closed source

    Commenters:

    • must give constructive feedback in replies to top level comments
    • must not include links to other apps

    To cut down on spam, accounts who are too young or do not have enough karma to post will be removed. Please make an effort to contribute to the community before asking for feedback.

    As always, the mod team is only a small group of people, and we rely on the readers to help us maintain this subreddit. Please report any rule breakers. Thank you.

    - Da Mods

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    I needed a flexible OTP input field for my app and found nothing, so I made one as a library. Check it out!

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 02:32 AM PDT

    Replacement of Android Drawable Importer plugin in Android Studio?

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 05:27 AM PDT

    From Android Studio 3.6 I know that it's not possible to use Android Drawable Importer plugin anymore by default. I managed to download it from Github and could use it properly, but does anyone know any replacement?

    I have tried Import Drawables in Resource Manager but it does not seem to render multiple densities for different screen sizes (or I don't know how to do it properly).

    Thank you!

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    Need feedback from developers who monetize their apps

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:00 AM PDT

    Hi,

    I am building a service that tackles these painpoints I am having as a developer living in Europe:

    - How to monitor revenues from across different apps and different stores?

    - When doing taxes declaration, how to generate a report with your net-income to declare from app sales and IAP?

    Do you share these paintpoints? how do you solve them?

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    Banning a whole country because of bad reviews ?

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 03:53 AM PDT

    I get way lower than average reviews from Indian users and it is somewhat tanking my global rating. It is the second country in term of rating count (10%). I do not know exactly why India ratings are so low but probably (among other things) the fact that the app is not translated, which I have no plan to do. This is also a fairly technical app and my guess many people there do not understand how to use it.

    I'm seriously considering disabling the whole country in the Play Store console. What makes me hesitate is that it will affect download counts, with possible undesired side effects.

    Thoughts ?

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    Showkase: An auto-generated Jetpack Compose component browser by Airbnb

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:16 AM PDT

    Showkase: An auto-generated Jetpack Compose component browser by Airbnb

    Hey everyone!

    I am thrilled to introduce Airbnb's latest open source project -

    🔦 Showkase 🔦

    Showkase is an annotation processor based Android library that helps you organize, discover, search and visualize Jetpack Compose UI elements. It auto-generates a UI browser app for you ✨

    https://preview.redd.it/21aff909wrj51.png?width=2500&format=png&auto=webp&s=fde7f97d79db4ce05420499a77796498f20b4a3b

    Showkase eliminates the manual work of maintaining a UI preview/browser app that each company is forced to build in order to maintain their design systems. By just adding a few annotations to your UI elements, this is what you get for free 👇

    Showkase in action

    It currently supports Jetpack Compose composables, colors and typography but you should expect support for more UI elements! You can also easily search and find the right elements that someone else on your team might've built. This helps in maintaining consistency across your app!

    Showkase allows you to visualize composables, colors & typography

    But that's not all! Showkase also auto-generates permutations of your composables and renders it in common situations like RTL, Dark Mode, Font Scaling, etc. This helps in catching issues early and gives you early signals while you are still developing your components.

    https://preview.redd.it/7ra5u9dkwrj51.png?width=1966&format=png&auto=webp&s=d154312eea334c18954d9174d778c7c7a2a56543

    What do I need to do to see my Compose UI elements in this app?

    Glad you asked! Showkase provides annotations that you need to add to your UI elements and that's mostly it 💥

    https://preview.redd.it/zjlmda1hxrj51.png?width=1274&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0097177b9f296581cab0ff47988cf6607e3682b

    Setup instructions here - https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase#installation

    We are thinking about some interesting ways in which we can extend this! We'd love to hear more about other creative ways to improve it! I hope that you find Showkase useful as you start experimenting with Compose. This has been in the works since April so I'm very excited to finally launch it! Give it a shot and let me know what you think!

    FAQ's - https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase#frequently-asked-questions

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    A continuously updated list of learning Jetpack Compose for Android apps.

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 01:06 PM PDT

    https://github.com/androiddevnotes/learn-jetpack-compose-android

    About: Learn Jetpack Compose Android aims to be your starting point to find the finest learning content for Jetpack Compose suites of libraries.

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    64 bit driver v4a petition

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 07:25 AM PDT

    Is your stereo sound on your android phone or headphones unbalanced? We need a good system wide eq on our new 64 bit devices!

    Please sign/ spread the word and share this: Petition

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    Question about passing object between fragments.

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:44 PM PDT

    Hello everyone,

    The android app I'm developing has 2 activities and several fragments:

    1. Login (talks to API and gets access token)
    2. Main (6 fragments currently, will increase in future.)

    Trying to follow MVVM.

    In login, logics are set up and corresponding new user object(from User model) is created on successful login.

    How should this user object be accessed from (passed to) Main and its fragments? Currently, it is passed form Login to Main through Intent. For fragments in main: Home fragment gets it from intent and sister fragments gets it through Navigation bundle passed among them.

    Is there a better way to do it?

    Thank you.

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    How to create custom lock screen?

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:07 PM PDT

    I've seen some custom lock screen floating around and was wondering;

    • If there any source code/tutorial that I could follow.
    • How far can you customize it? Could you add a really complex interaction, e.g. You need to finish a mini-game first before the screen unlocks?
    • Is it future proof?
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    I created an unofficial PayPal IAP for Android

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 06:16 AM PDT

    If you are likely publishing your app to Google Play. It is recommended not to use any other payment method other than their official one. There is a high chance your app might get banned.

    I was using this payment mode in some of my apps that I don't want to be on Google Play, hence decided to create a separate module for it.

    Also, the official one is no longer maintained, besides it had certain issues that this library solves like returning purchase details (currently only supports single payments).

    https://github.com/KaustubhPatange/PayPal-IAP-for-Android

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    What hardware spec is better for decent build times while optimizing the cost?

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:21 PM PDT

    Android Studio team recommends 8 GB RAM but that amount depend on the project. Aside from that it is normally recommended to have a SSD.

    What is your recommended specs (CPUs, RAM) for medium to large projects in order to have decent build times while optimizing the cost?

    But what about CPU?

    • AMD or Intel
    • What CPU series? ex: i5, i7, Ryzen
    • How many cores?

    How much RAM? 16GB, 32GB, 64GB ?

    What are your hardware specs? Are you happy about your current hardware specs? If not what you could have done better?

    Note:

    According to recent thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/if2i04/comparing_android_build_times_by_cpu/

    In case if you're too lazy to read the article, highlights as follows:

    CPU difference has a greater impact on full rebuild as compared to incremental build (incremental build times are comparitively closer across CPUs)

    Desktop CPUs heavily outperform mobile CPUs, possibly due to throttling (6-core desktop CPUs performed better than 8-core mobile CPU)

    performance scales up with core count (more cores = lower build times) but this is only till ~8 cores; after that the improvement in build time is negligible (no more parallelization possible)

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    Would it be possible to generate a notification when an item appears on a background app?

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 03:31 AM PDT

    Not going to ask you to write a script for me, thanks in advance for any answers

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    start rollout to production on google play store

    Posted: 29 Aug 2020 03:14 AM PDT

    I'm updating my app in Google Play and I've enabled 'Timed Publishing'. After creating a new release with the newly uploaded apk and other details, in the review screen "Start rollout to production" button is shown. Will clicking this start the rollout or does it wait till I press 'Go live' since I've enabled timed publishing?

    I want the app to be reviewed and available to the public only when I want to be.

    Does 'start rollout to production' mean submitting for review? what do I do if I want my app to be reviewed and have my app available for users later on?

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    Emulator 30.1.1 Canary

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:04 PM PDT

    From Mac os to Windows/PC ?

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:59 PM PDT

    Long time Mac os user here. My mac book pro is slowly dying I've been thinking about trying something new maybe give windows a go after 10+ years.

    The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the laptop I would go for...

    Do you think I should stick to mac? Is programming on Windows (with Ubuntu) a lot different?

    Thanks!!

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    Under the hood of Jetpack Compose — part 2 of 2

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:32 AM PDT

    Introducing Constraint Layout 2.0

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:01 AM PDT

    animating the layout's setRotation property

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:24 PM PDT

    views can be rotated using the `RotateAnimation` object in android, but using this class seems to only visually rotate the views, e.g. clicking the rotate view(rotated with pivot other than center) would not actually click the view, the view is still in it's original position but is only *visually* somewhere else.

    Hence, in order to rotate the view along with it's children to a new position, I found the solution to use `layout.setRotation(angle)`, in my case `layout` is a `constraintLayout` which I'll have to rotate through `180`.

    But, the problem is, that I am not being able to animate this, I'd like to make a smooth transition from `0` to `180` degrees, but it just snaps to 180 degrees. How can I animate this property or possibly the rotation?

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    Indian Pincode from Geo Location coordinate

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:05 PM PDT

    Hi,

    I have a data set of geo coordinates of India and I want to get the pincode for those geolocations. Can anybody help me out with the right API? I searched Google, but I'm unable to get any API which does this.

    submitted by /u/sarabjot294
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    Do you guys know anything which can help in understanding of how some features of different app works? Like for eg: how are number of upvotes getting real timed sync(ig sockets but not sure) and similar stuff.

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:14 PM PDT

    I just wanted to learn about what's the best practise to implement such features, how different companies handled it, and what different solutions can devs think of?

    submitted by /u/MJ_011
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    Alternatives to Admob?

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:17 PM PDT

    I really don't want to use Admob, they have already limited my ad serving. Can you recommend an alternative?

    submitted by /u/universalvibes85
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    As an android dev what are some good projects I can contribute to in war against COVID?

    Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:59 PM PDT

    I've been wanting to use my skills to help but been busy until now. I know many people are trying to help and many good projects have come from that but I don't want to wade through all of them. Anybody here "in the know" who can list some projects I can look into?

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