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- We’re on the engineering team for Android Q. Ask us Anything! (starts August 1)
- Google's practice of "associated account ban" - AKA "guilt by association"
- Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 2 available
- Google Play Support is making it mandatory to fix permission compliance with years old , UNPUBLISHED apps
- What is your biggest struggle in learning Android development?
- [AOSP]What is the most elegant way of striping AOSP of its pre-installed packages?
- Android Security: Don't leave WebView debugging enabled in production
- KotlinConf 2018 - Sealed Classes Opened My Mind: How We Use Kotlin to Tame State at Etsy by Patrick
- Fix Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState after onActivityResult without UI bugs
- An app to manage your data
- edittext underline - go away already!
- Now in Android: Episode #1
- Stylo 4 wont go into fastboot
- Is it possible to have apps fully open without them being on screen?
- Wouldnt it be better if instead of making the ViewModel be the one that .observe(), it would be the Adapter or the ViewDataBind the ones that make the .observe() on the ViewModel?
- Anyone know a good way to get maximum 2:1 aspect ratio screenshots on a Galaxy S8/S9 for Play Store submission?
- How to Avoid Delivering a Crash-Prone Android App - Bugsnag Tech Stack
- Question about target audience settings in Google Play Console
- Testing Two Devices While They Are Interacting
- Help me to recover my phone..
- App is still in review after 3 days.
- Is there's a way to track/approximate real time traffic to a given location eg shopping center?
- How to make an marquee animation for imageviews?
- Android Bitcoin price project - help reviewing project
- Understanding MVVM and callbacks in a View
| We’re on the engineering team for Android Q. Ask us Anything! (starts August 1) Posted: 26 Jul 2019 09:09 AM PDT As part of the Android engineering team, we are excited to participate in another AMA on r/androiddev next week, on August 1! We recently announced the fifth Beta of the next version of the OS: Android Q. We have another Beta release in the pipeline, followed by the public release later this quarter. This is your chance to ask us technical questions related to the latest features specifically in Android Q -- from the APIs and SDK to Jetpack, Kotlin, gestures and more. Please note that we want to keep the conversation focused strictly on the engineering of the platform. We'll start answering questions on Thursday, August 1 at 12:00 PM PST / 3:00 PM EST (UTC 1900) and continue until 1:20 PM PST / 4:20 PM EST. Feel free to submit your questions ahead of time. This thread will be used for both questions and answers. Here are some topics we're looking forward to talking about, but feel free to ask anything!
Participants from the Android team
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| Google's practice of "associated account ban" - AKA "guilt by association" Posted: 01 Aug 2019 06:30 AM PDT Here is some background on how the "associated account bans" work - a company can get banned, because their developer has a friend who got banned.
Previously this text was posted as a comment in this thread: The comment is still visible to me (25 upvotes) - however others only see "Comment is missing" - perhaps because it has too many links, or has been updated too many times for a comment: Since I needed to reference it again for another post, I decided this information maybe best presented in this separate post.
Not only law enforcement. Google uses it for "associated account bans" on developers from their Google Play Store. The enhanced clustering and account matching technologies mentioned in this Google missive How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2018 is a privacy violation as well as "guilt by association" - if a developer1 who has an account ban works with developer2 and that developer2 works for a company, that company's account can be banned - as exhibited below - the notorious "associated account suspensions":
This company's account was restored only after it went viral:
This company's issue not solved yet: https://blog.usejournal.com/google-wrongly-terminated-our-new-business-via-our-google-play-developer-account-5f5b7b742542 Google completely terminated our new business via our Google Play Developer Account Mark Dodson Feb 7, 2019
EDIT: another example for company called Shared:
EDIT 2: one year old example of employee ban leading to all employee and company account bans:
EDIT 3:
Explanation of associated account bans "Associated account ban" means not just explicit account linkages, but also implicit ones, where a wife can be banned for the misbehavior of her husband (and the life-ban will survive divorce). This is why devs caution to avoid using VPN, or the WiFi of a person who has been banned by Google. This is the modern day "Scarlet Letter". This means that a ban (these are "lifetime" bans) by Google, even if they are from your early dev period, is turning into a wider employability pariah metric. Left in the hands of bots (and AI), the behavior of a company can become indistinguishable from a huge bureaucracy. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Android Studio 3.5 Release Candidate 2 available Posted: 01 Aug 2019 10:14 AM PDT | ||
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Google Play is making it mandatory for us to update many years old , UNPUBLISHED apps. Is anyone else being asked to do this ? [link] [comments]  | ||
| What is your biggest struggle in learning Android development? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:07 PM PDT After two years I make this same question again. Are the biggest problems on learning Android development the same? Are there solved? Are there new problems? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [AOSP]What is the most elegant way of striping AOSP of its pre-installed packages? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:24 PM PDT I am trying to gradually stripe AOSP out of its default apps. But I wonder if the method I am going to apply is correct and is the most effective. After looking through ways of doing that I have come to the following method:(example app - "package_name") I have also stumbled upon this solution:
But sadly I am not aware yet how one builds a new "module, a stub" so I can't apply this method as of now. Are there any steps I can take to make sure a particular app is removed from my build completely without harming anything. What do you think is the most elegant solution to this specific task if there is one? What(literature/docs/website)would be useful for me to get familiar with making "scratch-surface" changes to AOSP code like the abovementioned case? If that matters what I am trying to remove at the moment: Calculator; Calendar; Camera; Clock; Contacts; Files; Gallery; Messaging; Music; Phone; Search; WebView Thanks in advance for your responses! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Android Security: Don't leave WebView debugging enabled in production Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:39 AM PDT
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| KotlinConf 2018 - Sealed Classes Opened My Mind: How We Use Kotlin to Tame State at Etsy by Patrick Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:41 AM PDT
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| Fix Can not perform this action after onSaveInstanceState after onActivityResult without UI bugs Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:07 PM PDT Hello, I have noticed some crashes in onActivityResult after receiving results from activity, which was launched in third party SDK. I personally use singleActivity with multiple fragments and I did not run into this issue. The question is: how should I safely perform fragment transaction after onActivityResult? In my previous post I wrote about using LiveData for fragments transactions. I have learnt more about this and have applied commitAllowingStateLoss(). It works well, but the problem is that it creates weird UI behaviour. After some testing we found that our manual locale changing did not worked after stateLoss, here is our method: public override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { AppCompatDelegate.setCompatVectorFromResourcesEnabled(true) super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setupLocale("uk") } I call this method in onCreate, but it does not get triggered after state loss... It seems, that commitAllowingStateLoss() creates weird bugs, as noted in documentation... How should I fix this issue? The two main questions:
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| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 03:17 PM PDT Hi everyone, I recently co-founded a company and we're developing an app for managing your personal data. We'll be launching the beta soon, and wanted to see if there's anyone out there who would be interested in checking it out and letting me know what they think of it. The link to the landing page is below. Thanks for your time! [link] [comments]  | ||
| edittext underline - go away already! Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:02 AM PDT Hi, this has been driving me crazy trying to find a solution and none of them seem to be working! First I have a TextView that when you click it hides and is replaced with an EditText with the same String in it, I want to be able to then have the user type in the EditText and it saves as the new TextView. But every time they do the text is underlined and then it saves some how the underline into the TextView. I can click the TextView (showing the EditText) then click out and the underline then is gone. Also I'm using getText().toString() on the TextView and EditText. I have tried changing the EditText background to null, #00000000, #FFFFFF, nothing seems to be working from all the suggestions I've found online. Why does it by default have to underline it - seems so dumb! Hopefully somebody has a suggestion that actually works. Many thanks! EDIT: Also during the EditText construction I have this line: titleEditText.get(index).setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS|InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT); However the suggestions do still show up despite it... and oddly if I click one of those suggestions, I don't have this underline issue! It's gonna probably be some dumb mistake I'm quite new still to this! [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:06 PM PDT Hey guys. Im trying to get my lg stylo 4 in fastboot mode but every time i use "adb reboot bootloader" or " adb reboot fast boot" my stylo just seems to restart fully instead of going into fastboot mode. Any tips on what i should do guys. Ive tried the down vol.+ power key, both vil. + power and up vol + power and i only ger recovery mode or imei number screen. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Is it possible to have apps fully open without them being on screen? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:42 PM PDT I want to keep an app running in the background of Android, but I need the app to think it's fully open and at the front of my screen. I'm basically trying to achieve multi-window, but only one of the apps open is displaying to my screen. Does anyone have any idea of how to do this, or where I could find more info on doing this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:37 PM PDT I've been thinking that it is a little bit redundant to have 3 lines of code which have 3 similar purposes. I think that these two extra lines of code defeat the whole purpose of the .observe() and the Mutable/LiveData and all their awareness. First I think that if the recyclerView or ListView, etc... has already been now if the .observe(); , instead of submitting something, would retrieve something (only on diffCallback) it would skip all three stages. like, Is it because of memory leak related issues? maybe is too expensive?, or maybe because of life cycles? I'm I misunderstanding the real purpose of the ViewModel class? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:40 AM PDT Google Play requires that the screenshots for app submission be no more than a 2:1 aspect ratio, but the Galaxy phones are so long that they are a 18.5:9 ratio. Anyone know if there's a standard way to get good 2:1 screenshots with these types of devices? I looked through developer options and found nothing. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to Avoid Delivering a Crash-Prone Android App - Bugsnag Tech Stack Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:14 PM PDT
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| Question about target audience settings in Google Play Console Posted: 01 Aug 2019 06:01 AM PDT Hi, there is this new setting in the play console where you have to put the age of your target audience. I don't know which age I should set there. My app is a tool which has no inappropriate content. Just admob ads which is a certified ad network. So my app can be used by any age group but it is not specifically designed for kids. If you put 18+ to be safe, I have to accept the "not designed for kids" label next to my app or I tick the NO option and risk to be banned by the algorithm. What age group do you guys set for normal tools? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Testing Two Devices While They Are Interacting Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:40 AM PDT Hello. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Aug 2019 10:37 AM PDT I have only one laptop in which I have only Arch Linux(i.e. No Windows). I recently got Lenovo k4note from a neighbour who wants it to be corrected. The hardware of the phone is perfect without any problems. The phone has stock recovery,stock firmware and without any Android ROM(or corrupted android ROM). Now,I want to Recover the phone.Please help me... [link] [comments]  | ||
| App is still in review after 3 days. Posted: 01 Aug 2019 01:44 AM PDT Hello, I have a problem. I made an app for the first time and wanted to publish it on the Play Store, everything went right until the review time. I submitted my app on Sunday and it still says "in review". Why does it take so long? I've read that review time will take longer if you submit your app during the week-ends. On the dashboard it also says: "We are taking a little longer to review your app. This usually takes a few days, but can sometimes take longer." More information. (I'm not English so I translated this text) Maybe it's because I'm a new publisher. Has anyone who published an app for the first time got this problem? I've seen that most people can publish their app in a few hours, so why does it take so long for me? Maybe the app is denied, but there is no indication on the dashboard that it got denied, and I also didn't get an email about it so I don't think that's the case. It just says "in review". Anyone know what's wrong? Should I just wait? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Is there's a way to track/approximate real time traffic to a given location eg shopping center? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:52 AM PDT Is there a way of telling how many android phones(location turned on) are currently in a given location? Is there a google API that does this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to make an marquee animation for imageviews? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 08:14 AM PDT [UPDATE: SOLVED. see my comment in answers]. Somewhat like this :https://lottiefiles.com/1800-sky . I would be having image of clouds on multiple imageviews and would like to have my image views moving at different paces across the screen. I have a feeling this is possible using simple translation animations , but I don't know how. Please help [link] [comments]  | ||
| Android Bitcoin price project - help reviewing project Posted: 01 Aug 2019 03:39 AM PDT Hi All, I have created a bitcoin price retrieval project using an open api, I am trying to get some insight on where I can improve, here's the link to the project : https://github.com/apparentice/bitcoin_price I have followed Google's github sample project as reference; here's the planned architecture : Language : Kotlin Architecture : MVVM, LiveData, RxJava Persistance : Room DI : Manual Looking for an in depth review including commit message formats. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Understanding MVVM and callbacks in a View Posted: 31 Jul 2019 07:02 PM PDT As I understand, all.Android-specific stuff must reside in a View. Now, I have some logic in a ViewModel that would want to trigger a callback in some circumstances. I searched the Internet for such scenarios, but to no avail. How would you do that? Store a weak pointer to a View in a ViewModel? Or something else, like passing a lambda in a constructor? EDIT: Let's say I have a timer in a ViewModel in which every second ssome method of a ViewModel is called. Upon passing 10 seconds, I want a ViewModel to e.g. show a toast (or play a sound). As only a ViewModel knows about android, I probably want to invoke a callback. [link] [comments]  |
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