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    Thursday, April 30, 2020

    New Terms of Service, but I can't click through Android Dev

    New Terms of Service, but I can't click through Android Dev


    New Terms of Service, but I can't click through

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:43 PM PDT

    Fragment API changes in 1.3.0-alpha04: "onRequestPermissionsResult() is deprecated. Use registerForActivityResult(ActivityResultContract, ActivityResultCallback) passing in a ActivityResultContracts.RequestMultiplePermissions instead."

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:18 PM PDT

    Pass data between fragments 2020 edition

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:49 AM PDT

    Retrofit Alternatives?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:03 PM PDT

    I've been using retrofit now for years and I was wondering if there has been anything new come out? Looks like Retrofit is still the industry standard, however I was curious to see any new networking libraries.

    submitted by /u/penuserectus69
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    This bit me in the rear today. The documentation has been a lie...for five years now!

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:43 PM PDT

    [Unit Testing] Mocking a static function in a final class using Mockito 2.

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:19 PM PDT

    Hey everyone, I am trying to mock a static function within a final class. I tried mocking it's behavior using mockkatatic(), but getting errors as my test is failing for Androids under API 28.

    Apparently, mockkatatic is only supported from API 28 and above. Any workaround this one?

    submitted by /u/aB9s
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    App failing review because of admob ads like this. It says i can't have Multiple ad placements on a page. is there a setting i'm missing to hide ads like this?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:55 PM PDT

    R8 Optimization: Lambda Groups – Jake Wharton

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:07 AM PDT

    I need free site to fix app-ads.txt file issue on Google Admob

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:24 PM PDT

    so i used the free option of Wordpress and i built the site but when i wanted to add the ads.txt file i could not i have to upgrade my plan so i could use the plugins

    so i am looking for any site or any way that i could open free site to fix the issue

    submitted by /u/mghol
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    An app that makes transfer app localization easier

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:34 PM PDT

    I just made an app, that allows to developer convert localization files to another type that you need.

    I hope it will help developers in their job.

    https://github.com/agarasul/Localized

    Feel free to comment and suggest new features

    Please follow:

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_rasul98

    submitted by /u/rasul98
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    My attempt at explaining how Robolectric does some of its magic.

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:29 AM PDT

    App Launch Advice

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:44 AM PDT

    Hi all,

    I've been developing Android apps for a long time now, and I've had reasonable success on the Play Store in the past, but I must admit, I still have no idea what to do when it comes to pricing, marketing and launching an app.

    As an indie developer, I've always preferred to learn to do things myself, rather than commiting hundreds or thousands of dollars to marketing and design and hoping it pays off.

    I'm planning on releasing a new app in the near future. I just wanted to lean on you other devs for some advice on what has worked for you, in the following areas:

    1.) Pricing Model:

    • a) Free trial
      + Wide audience
      - The app is listed as 'free with IAP', which can be off-putting
      - There's something off-putting about the app becoming useless after 2 weeks if you don't pay
      - Feels like a legacy pricing model
    • b) Ad-supported, pay to remove ads
      + Wide audience
      + Users seem pretty comfortable with the idea that they can remove the ads if they want to
      + Revenue potential from both free & paid users
      - Ads make the app look & feel cheap
      - Ads are frowned upon by users (potentially leading to poor reviews)
      - Ad revenue streams can be unreliable
    • c) Pay to unlock features
      + Wide audience
      - Limited revenue if the paid features aren't that enticing
      - Users may complain that other apps offer the same features for free (poor reviews)
    • d) Paid only
      - Limited audience
      + App feels 'premium'
      +/- Smaller, but more invested userbase
    • e) a, b or c, but with a cheaper 'subscription' option, where the user pays a lower annual fee, rather than a once off higher payment. I'm not actually sure whether this is allowed on the Play Store, if you're not offering any new content with the subscription.

    Looking at these, it's really hard to decide what the best option would be. I'm actually leaning towards 'paid only', as I like the idea that the app feel 'premium', and I don't have to spend as much time supporting users for free. But, maybe that would be a huge mistake ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    2.) Advertising:

    I have never been able to understand all the acronyms that come with advertising. I don't have budget to just throw money into the wind and hope that it results in app sales. I don't know how much is too much to spend, or whether it's even worth advertising on a low budget.

    The only way I can see this working, is if I use pricing model d.), and somehow make sure that the ads are resulting in more sales revenue than they are costing me. But that seems like some kind of advertising nirvana - does this actually happen in the real world? If I knew that $1000/month would earn me $1100, then I'd be all for it. But I just have no idea.

    3.) Other

    Does having a video has led to higher installs / purchases?

    This launch is a follow up to a previously successful app. Should I try and leverage brand loyalty, and call it '2.0'? Or should I rebrand it entirely?

    Are there any super obvious things that you really ought to include in the app from the outset? For me, Crashlytics is a no-brainer. But maybe some other metrics are really critical for making decisions early on..?
    ---

    Any advice / discussion is greatly appreciated. I'm not actually looking for specific answers, I just want to see what has worked and what hasn't for everyone else out there.

    inb4 'try it and see for yourself' - a lot of these decisions can only really be made once, and they can't be unmade.

    submitted by /u/timusus
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    Is Android P smart text selection actions available to third party apps?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:54 PM PDT

    I've just seen the post on r/programming about the scihub extension to redirect any DOI to scihub. Would it be possible to make an app that show a special action in the floating bar when text is selected?

    In Android P there's something called smart text selection that shows a special action when you select certain texts like emails, addresses, phone numbers, or URLs. Is this available to third party apps?

    I read this article that shows how to use ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT intent filter. However, these actions are shown for every text selected everywhere, so it becomes polluted when you have 5-6 apps using it... I'm talking about recognizing a pattern in selected text.

    submitted by /u/rvkUJApH34uqa5Wh8M4K
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    App visibility from paid app sale gone due to layout changes?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:50 PM PDT

    App visibility from paid app sale gone due to layout changes?

    My game is a premium game and the only time I ever get downloads, at least before, is when it's listed on the "Games on Sale" every time I put it up on sale once a month. But now I couldn't seem to find my game anymore? Might this be because of the layout changes? The sale price is from 5$ -> 2$

    Before they used to display the apps in a grid like so :

    https://preview.redd.it/pioi9i7v62w41.png?width=670&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2d82ef487fffeb4818005412890e600d5d086d2

    Now it's like this :

    https://preview.redd.it/2piazixx62w41.png?width=549&format=png&auto=webp&s=c67cabbd9071e5f0039bd1b2e3c343a33d026abc

    Or is this just me?

    submitted by /u/chain217
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    Opinions on where FAB should be placed

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:03 PM PDT

    I'm new to Android Dev and I'm becoming familiar with the concepts of fragments and activities. I'm working on a personal application where I want to implement a FAB on just one fragment. I currently organize my project as one activity that has a bottom navigation bar and hosts 3 separate fragments. I want the FAB just on one fragment and I want it to have a constraint to the bottom navigation bar, but the bottom navigation bar is located in the activity_main.xml, so I cannot have a constraint pointing to the bottom navigation bar. At first I thought to put the FAB just in the fragment I want and manually hard code a bottom margin but I feel like that's sloppy. Is there a way for the FAB isVisible to be set to false except the one fragment OR is it better to have the FAB just in the one fragment and find a way to constrain the FAB on a bottom nav that is outside its XML? Thanks in advance!

    submitted by /u/jjrog16
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    Job Alerts for Programmers from Reddit and Hacker News (free service)

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:00 PM PDT

    How to Control android emulator from touch screen?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:59 PM PDT

    Is there any possibility of using my mobile touchscreen to provide touch inputs to android emulator.

    I tried using TeamViewer,

    host: android emulator(google android studio's emulator API 29 x86)

    client: smartphone (running on Android9.0 arm)

    But this I very slow

    Is there any wired alternative like connecting ADB to both devices such that emulator screen displays on the phone and touch events could be provided as touch appropriate region?

    Please Help!!

    submitted by /u/abcdanonymous
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    jetc.dev: Jetpack Compose Resources

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:34 AM PDT

    Resource on where to start with Android development

    Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:31 PM PDT

    Something that I think I could have had when I started with Android development:

    Raywenderlich.com Tutorial team put together this Android Table of Elements. This is a learning roadmap for Android developers: everything you need to learn, in a recommended step-by-step order.

    https://www.androidelements.com/

    submitted by /u/dineshvg1023
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    I Need Help with SEO for my Local App:P

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:48 PM PDT

    Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well:D

    I recently made a dictionary app and I got quite a few users through sharing it around Facebook and Instagram. I have around 240 users currently and it's been 4-5 days since publication, so I am pretty happy:D The app was #4 on trending in the education category in my country. However, I am unable to rank well on the search even though this is practically the only app of it's kind. I added some keywords in the title, description and so on, but I might be missing something.
    In the statistics it says I have 0 organic downloads and everything came from third party :/
    Do you have any tips and tricks? Some suggestions? I am very new to this.
    Another question is this: When I change the store listing, how long does it take to see results from these changes? How do I know if it's ranking well or not? I assume it is not instantaneous xD

    Another thing is that I don't think many people are searching for dictionaries in my country so maybe that also has an effect, but I don't know if there is any free service that I could use to check that:P

    Any sort of help would be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks,
    Max:D

    submitted by /u/maxhacker11
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    Using client-side neural networks in Android app

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:45 AM PDT

    Has anyone tried Open Bidding by Google, instead of the classic ad network mediation setup?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:49 PM PDT

    Canceling an App Pending Approval on Developer Console?

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:35 AM PDT

    Could you please tell me how to cancel/delete an App pending approval when a release created and rolled-out for production through Play Developer Console?

    submitted by /u/baruttoo
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    Huge Admob CPM drop (>50%)

    Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:28 AM PDT

    Hello,

    from last month I was experiencing a huge CPM drop (over 50%) in my android games.

    I was wondering if this is just me or you also experience this due to COVID situation.

    submitted by /u/mmvlad
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