Android Dev - Weekly Questions Thread - December 15, 2020 |
- Weekly Questions Thread - December 15, 2020
- A small AR Pokedex project using ARCore, Hilt, Motion animations, Jetpack based on MVVM architecture.
- Android custom views, drawing on canvas
- Android ViewBinding vs Kotlin Synthetics - Deprecation of Android Kotlin Extensions Gradle Plugin
- App removed due to Ad
- School project app idea
- An app ditched Firebase to use Booster in production
- Googlefier lets you easily install Google apps on Huawei and Honor devices
- How's this possible?
- Should I start with Jetpack Compose?
- Android Google Places API Forces $300 Credit. What to use on?
- Android Studio 4.2 Beta 2 available
- Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 3 available
- Android/Career rant?
- AdMob ad serving limit after Google outage?
- AMD 3 3200G CPU performance with Android Studio/Emulator
- Play console IOS app
- Community Built Crypto-based Friendly Game on Android/iOS...
- Relatively experienced developer starting Android development and looking for advice
- Is there a way to use FireBase APIs in unit tests?
| Weekly Questions Thread - December 15, 2020 Posted: 15 Dec 2020 06:00 AM PST This thread is for simple questions that don't warrant their own thread (although we suggest checking the sidebar, the wiki, our Discord, or Stack Overflow before posting). Examples of questions:
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| Android custom views, drawing on canvas Posted: 15 Dec 2020 04:12 AM PST Am I the only one who found android drawing approach very complex and inefficient? Even if you want do draw simple stuff such as gradient circle for progress bar and some shape that is moving together with this progress bar. Can somebody provide a good example of complex custom drawn view structure? It seems like I am missing something because it's a pain for me to draw something. [link] [comments] | ||
| Android ViewBinding vs Kotlin Synthetics - Deprecation of Android Kotlin Extensions Gradle Plugin Posted: 14 Dec 2020 04:17 PM PST
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| Posted: 14 Dec 2020 08:38 PM PST Has anyone experienced getting their app removed from the android play store because of an ad? I have an app that doesn't have any adult content but Google removed my app from the playstore because there was an ad for an adult dating site(okcupid). They sent me a screenshot and told me to mark the app as "mature". I really don't want to do that. Any thoughts on how to handle this? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 15 Dec 2020 12:51 AM PST Hello I have to create an Android app for my final exam in university, however my imagination is very bad and I cant think of any app I could create. Here are the requirements: The app has to make sense, it has to use at least 1 sensor, it has to works with at least 1 external service via its REST API, it has to have at least 5 different screens, it has to use local database. I should be creating this app in React Native. Thank you so much for all the recommendations, and please try to make this app idea as easy as possible, as I am just a starting developer. [link] [comments] | ||
| An app ditched Firebase to use Booster in production Posted: 15 Dec 2020 06:04 AM PST
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| Googlefier lets you easily install Google apps on Huawei and Honor devices Posted: 15 Dec 2020 06:03 AM PST
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| Should I start with Jetpack Compose? Posted: 15 Dec 2020 12:53 AM PST Sorry if this question comes up time and again on this forum. I'm an (experienced iOS developer) new to Android development, and have to do a small PoC app in the next quarter. I would like to go with Jetpack Compose instead of Activities/Fragments. Do I need to know the knowledge of Activities/Fragments or can I skip that? Do you think it's a wise choice? [link] [comments] | ||
| Android Google Places API Forces $300 Credit. What to use on? Posted: 14 Dec 2020 04:07 PM PST I created an API key to use the Places SDK. Kept getting 9011 error code when I tried using the SDK on android app. Stackoverflow comment said I need to setup a billing account with credit card on GCP for the Places SDK API key to be actually usable. Seems I will automatically get enrolled in a program that gives $300 for first year. Based on the places billing page on my use case, I would not incur any cost. Any recommendations on what I should use the $300 on? I'm just developing an Android app. Already have a website hosted for free on firebase and an iOS app on the appstore. Context: No Backend Needed, simple app [link] [comments] | ||
| Android Studio 4.2 Beta 2 available Posted: 14 Dec 2020 10:04 AM PST | ||
| Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 3 available Posted: 14 Dec 2020 10:04 AM PST | ||
| Posted: 14 Dec 2020 02:13 PM PST So, this is my context: I started my career as a "programmer" going into a Java support role, I got 2 years of experience, then moved to Android Dev in another country. I got a job from a consultancy where they kind of did some shady moves. Since I went through all the trouble of moving abroad, I decided to continue with the farce and push on. I am not proud of this, since my resume was being shared as Sr, but I literally had zero experience as Android Dev. After about 4 months of trying we got one opening, I moved there and did "well" as a Dev, at least as far as I know. The android architect told me that it was a pleasure working with me and to keep up the good work, that kind of meant a lot to me since I felt he was being sincere. At that time I had no other feedback on how I was performing, it was kind of stressful since I always felt like I was not enough. As a new Android Dev, it has been hard knowing when you are doing the things right, since everything changes so far, every documentation is outdated, so you need to read the old, and then the new, and then the very newest to understand what is going on. At least that's how my experience with Android has been so far. Then here we are, writing this article. I feel a mix of anger, sadness and fear to what my future might be. I still have that feeling of not being enough. When I go back to android, sometimes the feelings are good, they just flow into the code, other times I end up hating Android and have to push on to finish whatever task I have, specially at the UI level. From my two years of working with Android, what I got is that its just a mess. If you were an Android dev before 2017, you have my respect. How did you manage to stay at a platform so fragmented?. Right now I can see how Android can become a very healthy platform for developing, there is AndroidX, kotlin, corutines and many third party APIs that can handle all the boilerplate work. I feel like learning Android is like a never ending story. For the time being I am starting over, getting into courses and starting from scratch. I just wish for a place where I can learn an go on a good pace. I don't know if this is the right move, but that is what at least might give me some clarity in the near future. I don't even know if coding is at all for me, I have done web, java backend and SQL, but I have never felt like this before, I am still thinking on what direction my career should take. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Any input is welcomed. [link] [comments] | ||
| AdMob ad serving limit after Google outage? Posted: 14 Dec 2020 12:51 PM PST Hi, I'm just asking here to be absolutely sure, has anyone else's ad serving been limited today after the outage? MY PAST EXPERIENCE My ads have been limited before (over a year ago), but at that time there were clear 'violations' or at least things I could change following the instructions. In that case, I ended up moving my ads further away from UI elements and removed the app from a third party app store that it was featured on. My ads were reinstated after exactly two months. BACK TO THE PRESENT This time, however, apart from telling a few people at my my neighbors' about my app over the weekend and the app being accessed by a few devices at the same time (at essentially the same place), I can't think of anything else that would trigger this unless the outage today had something to do with it - I have no idea. There isn't even any influx of clicks or requests in the last month - 6 clicks on 21 Nov and 5 on 6 Dec with an average of below 1 for the rest of the time; literally next to nothing. Looking over the support page (https://support.google.com/admob/answer/3342099?hl=en-GB), there really isn't any perceivable action to be taken to "fix" my app. It seems to be completely out of my control. Thoughts? [link] [comments] | ||
| AMD 3 3200G CPU performance with Android Studio/Emulator Posted: 14 Dec 2020 08:43 PM PST I'm looking to get into android dev and thinking of building a PC. Budget is limited so I want to go with AMD 3 3200G which has integrated graphics and forego buying dedicated GPU for now. However I heard there are issues with AMD CPUs and Android Emulator. I'm going to use Linux though. Does anyone here use 3200G, what's your experience? Would that CPU + 32GB RAM + SSD be enough to make it work smoothly enough? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 14 Dec 2020 11:42 PM PST As expected, the google play console app is not available on IOS. Is there a comparable app for IOS and what are your experiences with the app? I also don't think this is a help me post. But correct me if i am wrong. [link] [comments] | ||
| Community Built Crypto-based Friendly Game on Android/iOS... Posted: 14 Dec 2020 03:08 PM PST I have been wanting to build an app for the crypto world and I feel I have a super simple one that can be made and possibly gain some traction. (4-5 activities max, planning firebase for user/db management) I can and will most likely end up building the whole thing but am interested in a community driven approach considering blockchain is suppose to be decentralized in manner and open source code. So I feel I want to invite others to jump in on this and make it a community build, open source, not-for-profit project for the crypto community. For those into crypto, the app will need a simple 'wallet' for importing/storing keys, which I am working on right now on android. I write Java/Kotlin/Android Studio, Swift/xcode and am learning solidity for the smart contracts, more curious if anyone wants to help me. Regardless, I am building this app. PM me for more details, i would prefer to keep this quiet until i have the code up on github and something going. [link] [comments] | ||
| Relatively experienced developer starting Android development and looking for advice Posted: 14 Dec 2020 01:34 PM PST Hi everyone, I'm a fairly experienced developer with 10+ years of industry experience in different languages (also did Java for a short while) and I finished my iOS app about a month ago - looking to copy it to Android. I would love to get some advices on where to start, IDE's, do's and dont's and get some general info to how the transition went from iOS to android if anyone experienced it. Would love to read anything so thanks in advance! [link] [comments] | ||
| Is there a way to use FireBase APIs in unit tests? Posted: 14 Dec 2020 02:15 PM PST My application has some features that need a firebase user to be logged in. I'm trying to test these features using JUnit, but callbacks of FirebaseAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword are never called when the login is triggered from the test. Has anyone here done something similar, or can someone suggest an article about it? I know that mocking out APIs would be the right solution, but I'm really curious why it does not work. [link] [comments] |
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