App Feedback Thread - November 23, 2019 Android Dev |
- App Feedback Thread - November 23, 2019
- Open Source LibreTorrent Client Kicked Out By Google Play
- What should an android developer with 1.5 years of experience know?
- I have 2 years of experience and need help in gaining proficiency in Dependency Injection and Testing.
- Guide to creating a floating rounded corner bottom navigation bar
- On the moral hazards of dealing with Google - the Google-App Developer dynamic
- How Android App icon automatically changes according to the Events
- Can some of you please test this game and let me know if it is running in your device?
- Center a nested RecyclerView in the view of the parent RecyclerView.
- Made an android app, but OS doesn't suggest it's usage
- Question regarding networking in Android.
- macro app that can record/repeat functions?
- I bought a new x96 mini 9.0 Android box. I connected my mini keyboard to it and its working except for the esc button. It won’t let me go back. I’ve tried 3 different mini keyboards and all 3 are having the same issue, all 3 keyboards work on my brothers android box. Does anyone know a fix for this?
- How to handle Button clicks for each List Item in a RecyclerView using DataBinding
- Java based book to learn android components
- What's the largest number of apps you have maintained simultaneously?
- Exploring Dynamic Feature Modules At Swiggy
- Given byte-array of VectorDrawable, how can I create an instance of VectorDrawable from it?
- Is it good practice to have multiple views in one activity xml file, stacked in a LinearLayout, and hiding one after another?
- Navigation Component - How Useful?
| App Feedback Thread - November 23, 2019 Posted: 23 Nov 2019 04:28 AM PST This thread is for getting feedback on your own apps. Developers:
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| Open Source LibreTorrent Client Kicked Out By Google Play Posted: 23 Nov 2019 08:29 AM PST
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| What should an android developer with 1.5 years of experience know? Posted: 23 Nov 2019 01:21 AM PST So I have been working as an android dev for more than 1.5 years but I feel like I dont know a lot of stuff that others know. Is there a list of stuff that all Junior developers are supposed to know? I feel like I am not learning enough. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 23 Nov 2019 09:01 AM PST Hello my fellow devs, I need help overcoming one of the biggest obstacles in my young and android dev career. I have worked on and built 3 apps for my company and have been the sole android dev on those projects and because of the fast pace work environment and lack of coordination, I have not made use of dependency injection or unit testing. Now I have been very intentional about utilizing the latest and greatest in Android development (i.e. Kotlin, MVVM w/Jetpack, LiveData, Retrofit2, etc). However, I want to become the best dev I can possibly be, so what are some great resources out there where I can get a good understanding of dependency injection and writing unit tests for TDD? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Guide to creating a floating rounded corner bottom navigation bar Posted: 23 Nov 2019 11:56 AM PST I was browsing Dribbble in search of design motivation and noticed that quiet a few designs feature a rounded corner, floating bottom navigation bar. I decided to implement one and wrote an example post on how to do it also. Feedback is welcome [link] [comments]  | ||
| On the moral hazards of dealing with Google - the Google-App Developer dynamic Posted: 23 Nov 2019 12:42 AM PST
Is SAF (Storage Access Framework) dead on Android 10 for non-file-manager apps ? Local file storage has been taking a beating since Android 4.0 KitKat, as Google has had second-thoughts about standard file access, and has sought to nudge users to rely more on cloud storage (as Apple does lucratively) rather than cheap SD cards. KitKat killed seamless access to ext SD cards. Google introduced the non-standard and kludgy SAF as a workaround, but this still broke seamless API access. Now with Androld 10, Google seeks to do the same for internal storage - which becomes ephemeral/non-persistent - unless you use SAF. But soon after that, Google announced apps wouldn't automatically be able to use SAF either. Setting the stage for an Apple like enforced reliance on the lucrative cloud services by users. Developers will be an unwilling accomplice. If there is now a process similar to the bot driven Permissions Declaration Form (of Call/SMS fiasco fame), this means non-file-manager apps and even legitimate file manager apps (that already use SAF) will have issues passing compliance by bots. What does this mean for the relevance of SAF for writing to external SD card for apps ? Should those who haven't implemented SAF yet avoid it entirely ? What about those apps which have implemented SAF already - will they have to gain compliance as "file manager apps" ? For apps which include a file manager functionality, but the wider app is not solely a file manager app - will they have the same sort of issues passing compliance as Call/SMS apps had with Google bot driven Permissions Declaration Form ? For example an audio recorder app with a full file manager for managing files and organizing into folders may not be seen as "predominantly" a file manager app, but primarily an audio recorder app by the bots who manage an approval process.
Past history of approvals - Permission Declaration Form - Call/SMS fiasco This is the way the Permissions Declaration Form from Call/SMS fiasco worked. You may be a call recorder app, but you could no longer file call recordings by phone number (phone number was no longer available to a call recording app) - for that you had to be a dialer app. An offline SMS backup app was not fine - could not get access to SMS - for that had to be default SMS handler app! What we are witnessing is a move away from permissions for features, towards permissions by app category. So given the behavior or the bots with Call/SMS fiasco, we could be seeing audio recorder apps which have a full file manager feature built-in fail to get compliance, because they are "not file manager apps predominantly". If they are file manager apps, but also do audio recording, they will be seen as audio recorder apps, as now Google will say "why do you need to put file manager functionality in your app". In a way this is a counter policy to the Google Repetitive Content policy. For example if some accessibility features are required for an app for the blind, then will a dev be safer to separate their app for non-blind from the app for the blind ? Yet Repetitive Content policy forces devs to not have separate app for blind and non-blind - not even an experimental side-project. It leads to app ban and puts your dev account closer to account ban (lifetime). We have experienced this directly: This automatically forces apps to not be the all-in-one app they were before.
Moral Hazard and Google Given all these rules are being run by bots, and have overlap, there is an ever present issue of "Moral Hazard" - where one party (devs) entering into ever-changing rules landscape (run at discretion of Google) and incurs all the risk:
This paragraph describes exactly the situation developers find themselves in with Google. Google sets imprecise rules - these can be dealt with by info sharing between devs. But then Google keeps changing these imprecisely defined rules over time - which makes prediction by devs even harder.
Oppressive regulatory atmosphere It creates an oppressive regulatory atmosphere where independent devs are preoccupied with falling awry of Google bots more than moving forward with app enhancement. This is when it becomes crucial that Google spell out exactly how their rules work. Currently Google rules are unknown. Once your app is placed in "Update Suspended" state, how many days do you have to fix it before it goes into permanent app ban ? This happens - but it's schedule is unknown to devs. How many app bans leads to account ban (lifetime) ? Regardless of "Google's needs" for secrecy, a developer needs to know how much risk they are in so they can plan early retirement from android instead of further time on a doomed account. What is ironic is that Google recognize the need for secrecy as it mines user profiles extensively for it's ad/search arm - and uses it with abandon for profiling developers with the notorious practice of "associated account ban".
Lifetime bans raise risk from automated bot failures Google also has a practice of "lifetime" ban on a developer. Firstly this penalizes early developers excessively who may not know the inherent risks of dealing with Google and it's automated bots. In addition developers have been lulled into a practice of trusting Google Play for hosting their early development projects - generations of android tutorials have encouraged to post their projects on Google Play, and do it often. Lifetime bans also exacerbate the risks of miscalculation by Google bots. When the price of mistakes is excessive, it is developers who pay with excessive time lost.
Automated bots and the risks of "fuzzy logic" and low human oversight When Google employs fuzzy logic/neural nets to dictate the behavior of it's bots it already makes them evil (even if no Google employee is evil) - because it makes the rules hard to describe to devs. Google may deliberately employ secrecy as a defensive tactic to prevent "gaming" of it's bots, but even without that secrecy, the use of fuzzy rules is itself a hazard for those "partners" who deal with Google - whether devs, Adsense users, or YouTubers. When Google on top of that allows it's bots to "learn" and adapt, that makes those hard-to-describe rules even harder to predict. What Google's use of secrecy (and the inherent secrecy already implicit in use of fuzzy bots) implies is that it makes the rules hard to describe and specify to devs - which increases the risks of moral hazard unilaterally for devs.
A universal behavior pattern for current and future bot-driven companies The situation outlined above applies not just to Google, but is the end result of too much reliance on bot-driven business processes, esp. if they fail to allocate manpower for when the bots fail. For companies like Google which sought to revolutionize business by leveraging the "long tail" - using automation to do so was what made that model viable - minimizing manpower cost was paramount. And the outcomes will be similar for all companies which employ Google-like bots as interface to their business partners, without fallback to humans, and esp when every bot failing has a permanent cost to developer - as every bot failure inches them towards the inevitable, but unpredictable lifetime account ban. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How Android App icon automatically changes according to the Events Posted: 22 Nov 2019 06:54 PM PST
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| Can some of you please test this game and let me know if it is running in your device? Posted: 23 Nov 2019 03:11 PM PST https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kylegames.pimpslap There are some issues like when I install from play store, it crashes immediately with not even splash screen showing. But if I clear data from settings-apps, then it works perfectly fine. And if I repeat this after uninstalling, I have to do same to make it running in my device. But in my brother's device it works perfectly fine. So i want to know if some of you also are facing issue like me. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Center a nested RecyclerView in the view of the parent RecyclerView. Posted: 23 Nov 2019 11:47 AM PST Im trying to make an android app for my locally stored media and would like to imitate the Netflix UI. So far I have managed to get the nested RecyclerView correctly set up thanks to help on this sub. I have been testing this with a D'Pad and the focused item of the nested RecyclerView does not remain in full view when in focus. Is there a way to add this behavior to the RecyclerView in the layout files as Cheers [link] [comments]  | ||
| Made an android app, but OS doesn't suggest it's usage Posted: 23 Nov 2019 11:09 AM PST I've made an android app that transfers stuff via nfc, and it sends the data well, but on the receiving device, when it gets the nfc signal, it doesn't suggest my app for opening. I am using Android Studio (for android 9), and the permissions are (in Manifest) are as follows: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.NFC"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.NFC\_TRANSACTION\_EVENT"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ\_EXTERNAL\_STORAGE"/> <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.nfc"/> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <action android:name="android.nfc.action.NDEF\_DISCOVERED" /> <action android:name="android.nfc.action.TECH\_DISCOVERED"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Question regarding networking in Android. Posted: 23 Nov 2019 09:56 AM PST I'm making an app that needs to retrieve data (json/CSV) from a Python server over the internet? I've thought about using sockets or maybe OkHTTP but i'm not sure what the benefits of both are. Do you have any suggestions as to how I might implement a feature like this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| macro app that can record/repeat functions? Posted: 23 Nov 2019 08:17 AM PST There's a process I do on an app that requires pressing a couple buttons a lot of times during the day. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| How to handle Button clicks for each List Item in a RecyclerView using DataBinding Posted: 23 Nov 2019 12:55 AM PST I'm new to Android can anyone show me how to do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Java based book to learn android components Posted: 22 Nov 2019 07:41 PM PST I am familiar with Java(from school, and now develop for a company with Java) and I'm getting pretty into android development. Is there a good book that covers some topics like context, intents, recycylerview, android Views, etc? I find I can write logic to move and transform the data in regular java classes but I struggle with setting up activities and UI components etc [link] [comments]  | ||
| What's the largest number of apps you have maintained simultaneously? Posted: 23 Nov 2019 12:59 AM PST I'm a beginner CS Student and was curious about this. Excluding versions of the same app (i.e. same functionality but in other languages or a paid version), how much apps have you maintained at the same time and what was/is the experience? Any stories to tell? Can be simple apps, as long as they're different. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Exploring Dynamic Feature Modules At Swiggy Posted: 22 Nov 2019 09:04 PM PST
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| Given byte-array of VectorDrawable, how can I create an instance of VectorDrawable from it? Posted: 22 Nov 2019 11:09 PM PST My app finds APK files in the storage of the device, showing information about them and allowing to perform operations on them. It was even temporarily removed (by mistake) because of allowing to install APK files. Thing is, ever since Google added new restrictions about storage, I'm trying to find solutions about how to parse APK files without storage permission (because the framework can handle only file-path). For now I use the special legacy flag to allow me to do it with file-path, but it's a temporary solution till the next version of Android. Currently, using a workaround and a the library (link here), I succeeded getting the basic information and the app name, but for icons it becomes messy : wrong qualifiers, can return PNG instead of VectorDrawable, and the VectorDrawable is just a byte array... Is it possible to load VectorDrawable dynamically from byte code? For now I'm planning to use this library which parses APKs on its own (because sadly Google is planning to add restrictions of reaching files, to use the terrible SAF), but sadly for VectorDrawable it just has a byte array... Just to be clear: I'm talking about accessing the APK files (not installed ones, as getting this information still works fine) from SAF. With storage permission it worked fine (and of course with installed apps). See here. When you try to use SAF with the normal framework, you will get bad results: a string with a package name as the app-name, and the default icon as the app-icon (or worse: an exception). Also note: I know I can copy the files to my own app's storage and use just the framework, but this isn't a good solution, because if I want to show information about all APK files on the device, it would be a waste of space and time, just to get the icons and app-names... I need a more direct approach. One that is fastest for the app to handle. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Navigation Component - How Useful? Posted: 22 Nov 2019 05:15 PM PST So i just started diving into Kotlin for android development and I'm looking at new components from Jetpack to start learning so I can be more versatile in my skill sets. Currently I'm learning about the Navigation Component and I wanted to know how many people use it? Do you feel its a bit too abstract? Do you still use Intents or do you think the Navigation Component is a good addition to the android ecosystem? How many companies do you think actually use android architecture components as compared to traditional methods? Sorry I'm all over the place but as someone who's not employed atm, I want to get to know the landscape from people who are. [link] [comments]  |
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