Android Dev - Weekly Who's Hiring Thread - June 28, 2021

I would like to do this in my android phone app. Is this allowed by the Reddit and Twitter APIs? It's a subset of a user's tweets I would like to display and certain posts on subreddits as well.

Is this going to cost a lot of money charged by Twitter or Reddit? Does anyone have experience with these 2 APIs? Do you know rate limits? Does Reddit and Twitter allow for you to display these tweets/posts in a mobile app?

Thanks for responses, I appreciate it!

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New Android Dev Sanity Check

Posted: 28 Jun 2021 05:25 AM PDT

Hi all,

I'm new to the android dev scene, but not new to application development. I use a lot of low-code tools to build web and mobile apps and decided to take a dive into Android.

It looks like a standard android app would need a mixture of Java, Kotlin, Retrofit, and Room right? JetPack is also referenced...I imagine that's a best practices library/structure people typically follow?

Can you let me know if I'm on the right track? And if not, point me in the right direction?

I've built a simple app with some local functions and retrofit baked in for some web services. I'm just wondering if the technologies I'm implementing are correct...or if having so many dependencies is sloppy and not recommended.

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Is there any way to have a secure storage for an app, that can be read and written only by the app, and cannot be read/written to by anyone else, including root?

Posted: 27 Jun 2021 10:08 AM PDT

this includes attempts at reverse engineering.

I am thinking some sort of cryptography could be used as well. But the issue I think would be can the data be modified while writing?

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How to deal with an App requires Root access getting negative reviews by users who don't have Root?

Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:18 PM PDT

We have some apps on the Google Play Store that uses root access.

On new Android versions, it doesn't require root because the new Android API supports it, on legacy Android versions, it uses root access as a workaround for backward compatibility.

We've got massive 4-5 stars reviews proof that our App is high quality. But we also keep getting negative reviews on specific legacy Android versions every week. Users keep complaining it is not supported, useless, some even don't know what root is and said it is trash because they can't get it working. But the fact is, the analysis from Firebase shows there're still many users who have root access using our App with root access, so we're not looking forward to drop backward compatibility. This is a big disappointment especially when you know that it is not your problem but the users' problem.

I would like to tell users more information about Root to stop them from giving a one-star review in none sense, but I'm not sure if it is appropriate to talk about the root in our App because Magisk was suspended from google play many years ago, I think maybe this topic is kind of a taboo to Google?

Is there a certain way to describe what root is and not violating google play's policy? Or other workarounds for this kind of situation?

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Does google august 32 bit phase out only affect game apps?

Posted: 28 Jun 2021 01:34 AM PDT

Will non-game devs stop making 32 also? What kinds of apps?

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How to change the video to fit the screen and add subtitles (NO srt file) from the video

Posted: 28 Jun 2021 12:17 AM PDT

I'm creating a video player for myself (learn and improvement) and I have a problem with the video, if I don't edit anything on my TextureView the video is stretched in portrait mode and normal in landscape, if I use the code below in portrait fits the screen but in landscape the video is like a long line in the bottom of the screen.

And this is my subtitles code but I don't really know how to add the subtitles as text. The video example I'm trying comes from youtube with downloaded subtitles and then embed into the file. VLC (pc) shows me subtitles

Codes: https://pastebin.com/GwcyWg9L

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Future of single activity with multiple fragment!!!

Posted: 27 Jun 2021 10:17 PM PDT

Few years back Lane lake talked about Single Activity. Is was great. I makes sense that multiple activity has some disadvantages like data sharing, transitions. Use of multiple fragment is great when we use it in a modular way.

Now I am learning about Android compose. After learning some of it now I am now fan of Android compose. We can actually do many things by cohesion in android compose. We can make entire screen or part of it which we are currently doing by fragment. I think it can be easily replaced by android compose view.

As I am new in it. Guys let me know how much do we need fragment if we can use Android compose or the future of android with single activity with multiple fragment

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How much time is it taking for app reviews nowadays?

Posted: 27 Jun 2021 12:09 PM PDT

Our social/ dating app has been pending review for 3 days, wondering how much longer it might take. It's a small app (~7MB), written in Kotlin and uploaded in India.

View Poll

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Guys, should I include the previous version (APK) of an app in the latest release? What happens if I don't include it?

Posted: 27 Jun 2021 02:02 PM PDT

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