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    Android Dev - Request Android permissions using annotations only

    Android Dev - Request Android permissions using annotations only


    Request Android permissions using annotations only

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 03:14 AM PDT

    Comparing Android Build Times by CPU

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 05:41 AM PDT

    Google Play ratings are not average based and lack transparency

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 08:56 AM PDT

    It's beeen a while since I've been monitoring the Google Play rating on one of my apps (the rating that is displayed to users on Google Play).

    My Google Play rating according to the Google Play Dev Console is 4.448 which rounds to 4.4 on Google Play.

    As defined by Google, "the Google Play rating is calculated based on your most recent ratings".

    Here are the average ratings of my app for all the selectable periods on Google Play dev console:

    Lifetime: 4.609

    Last 365 days: 4.469

    Last 180 days: 4.561

    Last 30 days: 4.485

    Last 7 days: 4.580

    Today: 4.556

    As you can see, for Any selected period, the average of all the ratings on that period is higher than the Google Play rating.

    It's also very strange that the app's Google Play rating (4.448) has not changed more than 0.001 up or down in the last couple of months even if it receives a decent amount of daily ratings (around 10 per day) and "the most recent ratings" definitely have varied.

    The only logical explanation I can think of (other than that the whole rating system is bugged) is that Google is weighting the ratings so that more "helpful"/upvoted ratings have more weight on the average. But even if that was the case, how can the number be so stable?

    I think the lack of transparency/clarity on how Google Play ratings are calculated is an issue and contributes to raising concerns on potential manipulation.

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    Just Released RxResult, Android Activity Result as RxJava Streams

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 10:09 PM PDT

    For all RxJava users, I just released RxResult, which allows you to get Activity Result as RxJava streams.

    Repo: https://github.com/psuzn/RxResult

    This library allows the usage of RxJava with the new Activity Result APIs are made available on the Activity 1.2.0-alpha02, Fragment 1.3.0-alpha02

    This is my second android library, there might be some mistakes. So any feedback is highly appreciated.

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    Be careful updating your play store listing, it appears to effect your game ranking quite significantly for the next 4-24 hours.

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 08:47 AM PDT

    My last post was removed as I phrased it as a question so I hope this one is okay. We have found that when we update our apps store listing the ranking on the play store (even when searching for the exact name) drops significantly.

    The first time I noticed it I had just fixed a typo in the long description and it went from 1st to 15th when searching the name exactly. This stayed for around 6 hours then it jumped up to 5th then about 24 hours later 1st again.

    I updated the store listing again yesterday and it is still only back up to 3rd.

    I haven't experimented beyond this and couldn't find any documentation but it but does seem to be consistent so far.

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    Helpful glossary For new developers

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:09 PM PDT

    A long time ago when i started learning developing apps for android, I started with well-known udacity course for beginners, and one of the best resources I discovered is this glossary:

    Android For all

    I just opened it today by coincidence, and remembered how it helped me in the beginning of journey as a programmer. And so i recommend it to developers who are new or people who wanna take programming as a hoppy.

    What about you other developers? Is there anyone who find it helpful for beginners like me ?

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    2020 August 23 - Weekly happenings in Android Dev Community - Featuring Articles, Courses, Slides, Open-source projects, Podcasts from Japanese, Chinese and English Developers.

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 09:04 AM PDT

    • Articles
    • Slides
    • Course
    • Podcasts
    • Open-source Projects
    • Discussions

    Interesting articles on AWS IoT + Android, new dagger 2 + espresso tests course, the internals of the Handler mechanism in Android, comparing build times by CPU, and much more.

    Read: https://github.com/androiddevnotes/android-dev-weekly/blob/master/notes/issue-4.md

    Open at GitHub. Thank you for Reading : )

    Disclaimer: Would have posted links in the post itself, but Reddit auto removes posts with too many links.

    by androiddevnotes on GitHub

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    I made an app to shut-up the Laptop during phone calls and added other cool features like real-time link sharing and remote control of the laptop using Springboot as a backend server. Please share your helpful feedback :)

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 08:44 AM PDT

    16 - 22 August Android Newsletter

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 04:30 AM PDT

    Stay up to date with Android development, in this week's edition:
    🤓 Control of Android versions
    💡 Fragments improvements
    👮 Lint framework custom rules
    💅 Transitions with Material Motionand much more!

    🔥Featuring @ianhlake @rockandnull @the_gabrielfv @NikitBhandari @wkalic

    Enjoy and have a nice week!
    https://vladsonkin.com/android-newsletter-8/

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    How would you go about hosting your app?

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 03:03 AM PDT

    Say your app became more and more popular and relied on downloading data hence you need bandwidth, how would you go about hosting this. Would you use something like AWS who have scalable bandwidth?

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    If one software is already locked to Android for other reasons, do you think it's worth doing it in flutter or stick to native?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 11:41 AM PDT

    Google Funding Choices with multiple languages

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:01 AM PDT

    Is it possible to display the consent dialog for GDPR on Android in multiple languages?

    I can only publish a single message in a single language.

    I see no fitting method in the ump sdk.

    I mean there has to be a way to do this, if not then this sdk makes no sense at all !?

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    Native development is dying?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 10:17 AM PDT

    A lot of programmers using React Native / Flutter / etc for create applications.

    It's worth continue to learning android dev now?

    What do you think about future two, three, more years?

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