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    Android Dev - The story behind Paytm App’s de-listing from Google Play Store


    The story behind Paytm App’s de-listing from Google Play Store

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 05:45 AM PDT

    Rounded Progress Bar Library (My first open source library!)

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 03:19 PM PDT

    Rounded Progress Bar Library (My first open source library!)

    Hey Android folks! Over the past month I've been working on my first open source project and I'm happy to say it's finally complete. I made a library that allows you to easily create animated, rounded progress bars which are decently customizable.

    A progress bar made with the RoundedProgressBar library

    I started this project awhile back as I needed a rounded progress bar for an app I'm making. I tried some SO solutions and some other third party libraries but nothing perfectly matched what I needed in terms of looks.

    Being naive I thought I could make my own progress bar library in a day or two. Unsurprisingly, about three weeks later I finished it finally put it on Github and Jitpack. Feel free to take a look at it on Github or to ask questions about it here. If you find it to be a useful library, consider giving the repo a star, it'd be much appreciated!

    If you have any suggestions for my library please let me know. Like I said this is my first open source library and I'd love to improve from here.

    Github repo here

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    Uncomfortable Questions About App Signing

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:40 AM PDT

    Make Your Own Custom Android Launcher using Flutter

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:54 AM PDT

    Organic downloads - can you still get them?

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:46 AM PDT

    Hello,

    I was very active in mobile app development from 2012 to 2017. According to my Google reps/managers, I was one of the most successful publishers in my country. But those were different times and one-man-band indie devs could still make good money.

    However, from Jan 2017 onward, things have changed drastically. No matter what I did, my new apps just couldn't get any organic downloads. A few months prior to that, Google also assigned me two Google Ads managers and offered their help with advertising my apps (the minimum daily ad spend requirement was $200/day). That didn't go very well, but it might have been an indication of what was to come.

    Anyway, I'm now in different kind of business, but a friend of mine, who has an app development studio (they only develop apps for clients, not themselves) approached me suggesting that we reboot my app portfolio. We would also release some new apps.

    What I wonder is, what's your experience? When you publish an app, can you expect to get organic downloads, or do you start with advertising your apps on Google Ads and/or cross-promotion ads?

    Thanks.

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    Warning to all with Google and third-party SDKs

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:32 AM PDT

    Hey, I just wrote an article over on medium.com regarding my fun with Google, third-party SDKs and policy changes.

    I hope others will find this article useful. It's really not a rant, I'm passed that now. I'm not expecting the decision to change. It's just some information to help fellow developers avoid the problems I have come across. Be very careful with third-party SDKs and with Google constantly changing the goalposts with their policy updates.

    Thanks for looking, I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

    https://medium.com/@allankstevens/google-gave-me-30-days-to-update-my-app-then-suspended-it-after-just-4-days-9d35bec55358

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    Android Studio and Creation of Custom Components: Is it Impossible? Where do i Start?

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:56 AM PDT

    Hey guys, hope you are all ok.

    So, i will go stright foward to the point. What´s with customization of components in android studio? I´m trying to find a resourceful post about this in the internet, but i´ve found nothing more than the same basics, not very long, examples on how to do it. I mean, i´m starting to think that i´m very stupid and can´t find any useful info, or maybe those examples are all i need and i just don´t get it.

    Let me explain a little bit more. I´m developing a new app in wich a custom component seems necessary for smothness and operational issues. So, when i was looking for a component (button, seekbar, switches) that suits my needs in the android IDE, didn´t find any. I tried with some of them, and even explore the options that i had found at the moment on google. Eventually, start to think that maybe i should modify one or two of them, BUT, i´m still a beginner so i went to saint google asking for help in forums like stack overflow and blogs that came up. The thing is, i get that i should figure out this kinds of things by myself, it´s not that i want an example ready to import to my project, it´s really not that. I want lo learn how to do it, i want to be good at it; i just need some guidelines and maybe some posts that have information about it. Or maybe, a list of the things i should understand to start doing it (components composition, functionality, uses of their characteristics, what can be touched and what cannot, in wich method should i work, etc). I´m not giving up on this matter. I really think this is important for my future apps, so thats why i´m asking for some advice on where to start. I´ve manage to modify, finally, one or two components, but everything seems too "tutorialistic", very much like copy/paste. I want to understand it. I don´t care if i have to study a lot, i want it that way, i just don´t know where or what to learn.

    I thank you if you can help me, if you can´t, i thank you anyway.

    Cheers, and please, stay at home. Be safe.

    submitted by /u/Joniizep
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    Need help with FRP Bypass please I’m on stylo 5x

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT

    So the share methods don't work the is no service option in accessibility setting my best bet was the locked sim method but when I remove the sim the phone quickly powers off and restarts idk what to do I downloaded an app for my pc ended up only being for Samsung any advice id like to use this phone instead of my iPhone

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    The real size of Android objects

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 04:53 PM PDT

    How could I learn Android development in 2020?

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:56 AM PDT

    We started working on a new project at my workplace. My task was to create a simple android application, and communicate with an api. I was happy about it, because I want to get some android app development experience too.

    I have 7 years of full-stack development experience, but this project was way harder than I expected.

    I started on developer.android.com , created the example project, and searched for other things ( camera, http request, services, etc...) as I progressed with the development. The problems already started here, because many of the examples simply did not work. Sometimes, they failed to mention requirements for those functionalities, like a required permission, or that I need to create notification channel before sending notifications, etc. But in the camera/photobasics example, I am still not able to add the photo to the gallery, even if I use that same code. I tried to find a solution on stackoverflow, but without success.

    If I try to solve something, I just run into outdated answers and libraries again and again, because the api changes that much. Even if I use some example code from developer.android.com, I get a warning in the IDE, that I should not use that feature, and migrate to AndroidX.

    When I tried to add some complexity to my app, and learn how to use services, that was really confusing too. I was used to service locators, and using a service in Angular or Symfony takes one line of code. But in Android, it turned out, that I need 50+ lines of code bloat, to call a simple function of a service .

    It was really strange, that I have to cast types back and forth. I could only share primitive types between activities/fragments/preferences. So I have to rebuild the complex objects every time the activity starts. When I added my object to a shared service, the system just destroyed and recreated the service, when I navigated to an other activity.

    I was never a slow learner, but now I find android development a real mess. Maybe I just got used to different technologies.

    I was able to finally finish the project, but it caused me a lot of stress and sleepless nights. The code works, but it looks really bad, and hard to maintain. I don't feel, that I gained useful experience.

    I would like to understand, how to create modern android apps, and how to structure my projects well. Could you please recommend me some learning material? How did you learn it?

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    How many threads does the app that started Activity have at least?

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:14 AM PDT

    Flutter vs Native for school project.

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 10:34 PM PDT

    I'm currently tasked on a 6 month IoT school project to develop an Android App. The gist of what this app does is retrieve and visualise data from a MySQL database based off sensors (temperature, humidity etc.) The catch is, I dont have any actual experience in app development and I have spent about the first two weeks trying to learn as much as I can.

    As I believe this app will be heavily based on the UI with data in multiple forms such as tables, charts, graphs and so on, would it be wise to pick up Flutter from the get go and work with it instead?

    Edit: The school only asked for an Android App, however with the nature of this app, personally I would like it to be multi-platform for a larger user audience. (It may also score me extra grades by considering this)

    submitted by /u/HawtChocolatez
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    Create Hello World App with KMM ��- Android & IOS

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:20 AM PDT

    Android Studio 4.2 Canary 12 available

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 10:04 AM PDT

    Now in Android #25

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:41 AM PDT

    Thoughts on review site appEnhancer

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 04:16 PM PDT

    Has anyone else used the review site appEnhancer? It is a site were basically you give a review, you get a review, in essence, and you do not like a app you skip it. I have used this site off and on for about a year and have around 150 reviews from it. I have read the Google play policy but am on the fence because I am not paying for reviews, and people who do not like my apps instead of a bad review just skip it. I want to avoid Google issues so am asking what other think and is anyone else doing something loke that?

    submitted by /u/thedrizzle2099
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    Using Paging3 Example.

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 03:17 PM PDT

    After many hours of struggling to understand Paging3. I made an article on how to use Paging3.

    This covers on how to use Paging3 with Retrofit2, Room and an in-memory list.

    Here is the link: https://medium.com/@viatcheslav.ehrmann/using-paging3-example-4157c520bc22

    I used these resources to learn Paging3.

    https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/07/getting-on-same-page-with-paging-3.html

    https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/paging/v3-migration

    https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/paging/v3-paged-data

    submitted by /u/GrayTsar
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    How to Fix Ad Serving Limits on Admob - Account Being Assessed - Invalid Traffic

    Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:30 AM PDT

    If anyone facing issue "ad serving is limited admob" "Account Being Assessed"

    Then Watch this Start to End Video to Solve this issue according to Admob Policy.

    Language Hindi/Urdu

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgjIylK2xew

    submitted by /u/sherrymjohnson
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    Aarna Systems - What are Google Penalties? How to check if a Google Penalty hits you

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 11:50 PM PDT

    How to work on open source app ?

    Posted: 22 Sep 2020 08:57 AM PDT

    Hey
    I have a question regarding the "best" way to work on an open source app like Lawnchair
    Devs made a folder containing all the modifications they wanted to make or add to the base code of launcher 3 right ?
    Is this method valid for other open source app ? I don't find that much info on the Internet

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