InfoQ Homepage Android Content on InfoQ
-
Android Studio 4.2 Includes Latest IntelliJ IDEA and Improves Developer Experience
The latest release of Android Studio brings its IntelliJ IDEA platform up-to-date and introduces a number of features aimed at improving developer experience. Android Studio 4.2 also includes a migration assistant to make it easier for developers to upgrade their projects and take advantage of the latest Android Gradle Plugin API.
-
Gradle 7.0 Released with Support for JDK 16
Gradle, the customizable open source build automation tool, has released version 7 with support for JDK 16, faster incremental builds, improved build reliability, and native support for new Macs with Apple Silicon processors. Preview features like dependency verification and support for Java Module System, introduced in previous releases, have been promoted as stable features.
-
Gluon Releases SceneBuilder 16
Gluon releases Scene Builder 16, a graphical design tool that visually simplifies the creation of cross-platform applications on computers and mobile devices.
-
NativeScript 8 Released with Apple M1, Webpack 5, and Dynamic View Support
The recently released NativeScript 8 features official Apple M1 support, and webpack 5 builds. NativeScript 8 supports a new layout container for creative view development and two new styling properties: box-shadow and text-shadow.
-
Rust to Provide New Foundations for Android OS Security
Google will use Rust to prevent memory bugs in the Android OS, one of the most frequent causes of security vulnerabilities. As a first step in this direction, the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust as an OS development language.
-
Supreme Court Rules Google's Use of Java API Was Fair Use
The Supreme Court in the United States of America has ruled that Google's use of the Java API was fair use, and that the objections raised by Oracle are rejected. InfoQ looks back at the history and what this means for the future of APIs.
-
Google Pushes for Better Android App Quality
Google launched a new quality section on its Android developer site and updated the Core App Quality checklist. These moves continue Google’s push for better app quality, such as improved privacy and battery life and increased gesture navigation. Google promises quarterly revisions of this checklist and other checklists, and more tooling.
-
Ki is a New, More Flexible Kotlin Interactive Shell
Ki is a new interactive shell for Kotlin that aims to make it easier for developers to do quick experiments with the language and to take advantage of REPL-driven development.
-
React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS
The latest version of React Native adds support for the Hermes JavaScript engine on iOS and moves to React 17.
-
ML Kit for iOS and Android Now Generally Available
After two years in beta, Google has announced the general availability of ML Kit for iOS and Android along with improvements to the Pose Detection API. Furthermore, Selfie Segmentation is now available in public beta.
-
Flutter 2 is Production-Ready for the Web, Adds New Platforms
A major update to Google's cross-platform UI Toolkit, Flutter 2 stabilizes Web support and adds new platforms, including foldable, embedded, and desktop. Alongside it, new Dart 2.12 brings null safety and Dart FFI.
-
Amplify Flutter Brings Together Flutter and AWS for Cross-Platform Apps
Amplify Flutter aims to simplify the creation of cross-platform apps for iOS, Android, and the Web using Google Flutter UI toolkit and AWS. Announced as a developer preview last August, Amplify Flutter is now generally available and includes new Data, API, and Auth capabilities.
-
JFrog to Shut down JCenter and Bintray
JFrog has announced that it is shutting down the Bintray asset hosting service, which includes the JCenter Java repository, often used by Gradle and Android builds. Uploads to Bintray will be blocked at the end of the month, and assets will be unavailable for download after the end of April, and deleted shortly afterwards. Read on to find out what this means for your Java build pipelines.
-
Airbnb Showkase: a Browser for Your JetPack Compose Library
Airbnb Showkase aims to help developers organize, discover, and visualize their Jetpack Compose UI elements by synthesizing a browser activity based on specific code annotations.
-
Google Phases out Android Things
Google recently announced phasing out its Android Things IoT platform. New projects will not be accepted after January 5, 2021, and the Android Things console will be turned down for all projects in 2022.